Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS)

The Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum is an international reference center for modern and contemporary art and forms, together with the Prado Museum and the Thyssen-Bornesmiza Museum, the Art Triangle.

It opened its doors in 1990 with the intention of reflecting Spanish artistic contemporaneity in relation to the international context. Its collections are made up of more than 23,000 works made between the end of the 19th century and the present and house one of the jewels of the art world: Picasso's Guernica. You can also find the best works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró or Hermen Anglada Camarasa.

The Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum is located in the Old Hospital of San Carlos in the vicinity of the Emperador Carlos V Square. Located in the heart of the capital, it is committed to encouraging collective reflection and dialogue, and serving as a tool to face the complex challenges that affect us. The intention of this space is for us to participate in this exercise of reading the past 20th century with the eyes of the present so that it gives us back the image of a bastard, multiple, complex and heterogeneous modernity.

Its permanent collection was inaugurated in 1992. In chronological terms, this collection is considered an extension of that of the Prado Museum, since it covers the period from the 19th century to the present. Spread over three floors, the permanent collection shows the first contacts of Spanish modernity with Europe, through artists such as Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa, Ignacio Zuloaga or Francisco Rubio, to the contribution of the Cubist and Surrealist movements with Picasso, Miró, Dalí , Juan Gris, María Blanchard...or its repercussions on the so-called School of Paris. The reunion in the 1940s with this avant-garde spirit and the prominence that abstract movements assumed in the 1950s and 1960s conclude this historical journey.