Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid was opened on 10th October 1992 and it was acquired by Spain in 1993. It is among the three famous museums that form the "Golden Art Triangle" along with the Reina Sofia and the Prado. When this museum was opened for public viewing the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection was considered to be having the best of the private art collections in the world. Even now the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid can boast that it has the best collection in comparison to all cities globally.

There are numerous famous artists the works of whom one will find exhibited in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid. The famous artists are Lucas Cranach, Van Eyck, Rubens, Gauguin, Kirchner, Mondrian, Duccio, Carpaccio, Kandinsky, Dürer, Caravaggio, Frans Hals, Titian, Van Gogh, Monet, Picasso, Klee, Hopper, Rauschenberg, to name just a few.the museum has been so designed that you can actually take the journey in the realm of art right from the 13th century to the 21st.

The movement in art

This museum helps to show the progress of art from the Primitive Italian period till the latest Surrealism, the Pop art of the sixties along with the Figurative trend of the present times. There is also a special collection if American paintings of the 19th Century.

There is a new extension in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid that would contain the Christ and the Magdalen, by Rodin, The Porta Portello, by Canaletto, The Lock, by Constable, Mata Mua (Once upon a time), by Gauguin, The Ludwigskirche, The Garden of Eden, by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Cabbage Field, Pontoise, by Pissarro, Portrait of a young Woman, by Fragonard, Charing Cross Bridge, by Monet and Allées et venues, Martinique, though there are many more.

The particularities of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Opening Times: Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m - 7p.m.
Address: Paseo Prado, 8
Telephone: 91 369 01 51
Entrance: from 3.00 - 4.8 Euros
Metro: Banco de España