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1 Reina Sofía Museum Private Visits

A program of exclusive tours makes a special and preferential way of getting to know the Museum The Reina Sofía Museum offers exclusive openings for those interested in

The private guided tour program is aimed at private individuals, firms or institutions that want to offer their clients or employees a special and preferential

Private visits can be rounded off with drinks, cocktails, lunches or dinners at one of the venues rented out for these purposes by the Museum.

3 A program of exclusive tours makes a special and preferential way of getting to know the Museum The Reina Sofía Museum offers exclusive openings for those interested in the unique experience of enjoying a private viewing of its masterpieces of modern and contemporary art. The private guided tour program is aimed at private individuals, firms or institutions that want to offer their clients or employees a special and preferential opportunity to explore the Museum and its exhibitions. Private visits can be rounded off with drinks, cocktails, lunches or dinners at one of the venues rented out for these purposes by the Museum. They moreover provide a perfect complement for business meetings, conferences or company events, which can also be organized on the premises. The private visits are held when the Museum is closed to the general public (except public holidays): Tuesdays, all day; Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, up to 10 am and after 9 pm; and Sundays, up to 10 am and after 7 pm.

4 The program of guided visits includes transversal tours that take in a large number of the Museum s rooms, as well as visits or commentaries that concentrate in depth on a small group of works. Groups are accompanied by art historians with an expert knowledge of the Museum s collections.

Guernica Context A tour focusing on the most emblematic work in the Museum s Collection, Pablo Picasso s Guernica.

Analysis of the scale model of the building and the works of other artists who, like Picasso, also showed their support for the Republic by

5 Guernica Context A tour focusing on the most emblematic work in the Museum s Collection, Pablo Picasso s Guernica. The visit is structured around three themes: The Pavilion of the Spanish Republic at the International Exposition in Paris. Analysis of the scale model of the building and the works of other artists who, like Picasso, also showed their support for the Republic by making or lending works for this international event: Bardasano, Gutiérrez Solana, Horacio Ferrer, Julio González, Alberto Sánchez, Alexander Calder, Joan Miró. Detailed analysis of the picture: symbolism, context of its creation, travels and exhibitions, interventions and restorations. The Civil War as seen from abroad: with the rapid spread of news through the international press, the Civil War became a subject for artists like Le Corbusier, David Smith or René Magritte.

The Irruption of the 20th Century The Irruption of the 20th Century: Utopias

focusing on the beginnings of modernism in Spain and the irruption of the

return to order, clarity and traditional genres in the 1920s; Surrealism as a

This tour analyses the work of artists like Anglada Camarasa, Gutiérrez

6 The Irruption of the 20th Century The Irruption of the 20th Century: Utopias and Conflicts ( ) visits the first part of the Permanent Collection, focusing on the beginnings of modernism in Spain and the irruption of the avant-gardes, with their search for new languages: the rupture of Cubism; the return to order, clarity and traditional genres in the 1920s; Surrealism as a path to the liberation of the individual through the subconscious. This tour analyses the work of artists like Anglada Camarasa, Gutiérrez Solana, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Julio González, Pablo Gargallo, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí.

The Poetic A tour of the second part of the Collection, from the forties to the sixties, through the

and the materiality of language, and furnishing an experience of the real that lies outside illusionism.

Spanish informalists Antoni Tàpies, Luis Feito and Manuel Millares, but also in the monochromes of the

7 The Poetic A tour of the second part of the Collection, from the forties to the sixties, through the concept of the poetic in works that refer only to themselves, displaying the processes of their own making and the materiality of language, and furnishing an experience of the real that lies outside illusionism. This is therefore a poetics of absolute vision, as becomes clear not only in the material artworks of the Spanish informalists Antoni Tàpies, Luis Feito and Manuel Millares, but also in the monochromes of the Frenchman Yves Klein or the large canvases of the American artists Clifford Still, Robert Motherwell and Adolph Gottlieb.

Hidden Museum Guided visit focusing on several works in the Museum s

Pablo Picasso (Pablo Ruiz Picasso), Woman in Blue, 1901.

8 Hidden Museum Guided visit focusing on several works in the Museum s Collection, with in-depth commentaries on their context, history or state of conservation. This tour includes commentaries on the following works:. Pablo Picasso (Pablo Ruiz Picasso), Woman in Blue, José Solana (José Gutiérrez Solana), The Gathering at the Café de Pombo, Pablo Picasso (Pablo Ruiz Picasso), Guernica, Alexander Calder, Carmen, 1974

Sculptures in the Museum The visit is organized as a

Reina Sofía: the historic Sabatini Building, the

large sculptures that have been moved out of the rooms

number of public spaces around the Museum: sculptures

9 Sculptures in the Museum The visit is organized as a tour of the two buildings which make up the Museo Reina Sofía: the historic Sabatini Building, the former provincial hospital of Madrid, and the modern Jean Nouvel Building. The guiding thread of the visit is the study of the large sculptures that have been moved out of the rooms in search of a better location, and now dynamize a number of public spaces around the Museum: sculptures by Calder, Chillida, Miró or Lichtenstein are exhibited in these transit zones, courtyards and terraces.

10 Temporary exhibitions The Museum has a wide program of temporary exhibitions. Information on current programming is obtainable at this link:

Nouvel Entrance Nouvel Protocol Room Study Centre Lobby Auditorium 400

Nouvel Building Ronda de Atocha, s/n Nouvel Entrance Garden Sabatini Protocol

Sabatini Entrance Nouvel Building Transport Public parking Atocha train

34, 36, 37, 41, 45, 47, 54, 55, 57, 59, 60, 78, 85, 86, 102, 116, 118, 119,

11 Nouvel Entrance Nouvel Protocol Room Study Centre Lobby Auditorium 400 Auditorium 200 Rooftop Location and access Sabatini Building Santa Isabel, 52 Nouvel Building Ronda de Atocha, s/n Nouvel Entrance Garden Sabatini Protocol Room Cloister 1st Floor Sabatini Auditorium Madrid Sabatini Building Sabatini Entrance Nouvel Building Transport Public parking Atocha train station Plaza Sánchez Bustillo Buses Líneas 6, 8, 10, 14, 19, 24, 26, 27, 32, 34, 36, 37, 41, 45, 47, 54, 55, 57, 59, 60, 78, 85, 86, 102, 116, 118, 119, 141, 148, 247, E3, C1, C2 Underground Line 1 - Atocha Line 3 - Lavapiés Train Atocha-RENFE train Station

More information www.museoreinasofia.es Contact: Tel: Email: +34 91 774 1000 visitas.

12 More information Contact: Tel: Extensions 2025/2004

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