2 DAYS TOUR 

Reina Sofia Museum 

 

This Museum was initially projected as General Hospital, a project designed by Hermosilla in the eighteenth century and later continued by Sabatini, which remained unfinished. The original purpose is curiously appropriate to their actual use, as the central figure in contemporary art is the healer. The use of a hospital as a center of modern and contemporary art is just a happy coincidence or not, depending on your point of view. 

On the other hand, the failure of the initial draft of the hospital appears to resonate, even two centuries later, in the way that the original building was renovated and expanded several times, with a plan that seems to evolve and change without specifying a valid model, parallel to the development of its museum also variable or art center strategy.

In one of the previous urban interstices is the extension designed by Jean Nouvel, who precisely aims to produce this kind of public space, with a small square under a large floating roof trying to relate to the city. You could say that the expansion project is a "concentrated Nouvel" showing many of their most recent. Jean Nouvel has created three buildings - a hall for temporary exhibitions, a library, an auditorium and a restaurant.

The Reina Sofia Museum is part of the Golden Triangle of Madrid and offers some of the most important modernist works of world - the famous Picasso painting "Guernica" is permanently exhibited here.

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