Museo de arte Thyssen-Bornemisza: while the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection Foundation was created in 1988, the opening of the Museum came in October 1992, date from which Museum has grown significantly with the expansion of the collections and facilities thanks, especially, to loan long-term from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 2004 and the extension of the Villahermosa Palace. In this context, the Museum offers the public a tour of art from the 13th century until the end of the 20th century. You can find a few thousand exhibited works through which visitors can see the main periods and pictorial schools of Western art as the Renaissance, mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, romanticism and art of centuries XIX and XX to Pop art. Some movements devoid of representation are also included in the State collections, like Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism and the avant-garde experimental of the early 20th century. One of the most important collections of this splendid specimen is that of American painting of the nineteenth century, unique in the European Museum field. As a curiosity, through the exhibits may be known the tastes and preferences of the barons Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875-1947) and Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (19212002), especially attracted by portrait and landscape. Reina Sofia Museum: the opening of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in 1990 meant the creation of a Museum of modern and contemporary art in Spain at international level, although few have been the vicissitudes suffered by the building up to that end.

The program of the Museum Reina Sofia revolves around two reflections. The first, to rethink the role and Constitution of the Museum in contemporary times. The second, ask ourselves whether there is an alternative to this institution, the modern Museum, historical models emerged in the 1920s to represent a linear and exclusionary, history or the postmodern, raised in the mid 1980s as absorption of confrontation and dissent in a new globalized territory. The Museum is not conceived as the institution that exhibits a universal knowledge, identity and exclusionary, but as a place capable of generating new interstitial spaces of sociality and discussion in the public sphere. In him we can admire works of artists as Oskar Schlemmer, Jose Val del Omar, Lygia Clark or Alice current temporary Creischler.exposicion (6 April – 22 August 2011): A hard light, without compassion. Working photography movement, 1926-1939.