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Reina Sofia National Art Centre Museum, Madrid

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Guernica by Picasso
Guernica by Picasso

Reina Sofia National Art Centre Museum

The third of Madrid's famed art galleries, the Reina Sofia, is dedicated to 20th century Spanish art, having been designed to give Spain a museum to equal France's Pompidou Centre and London's Tate Gallery. The museum was opened by Queen Sofia in 1986, and is housed in the former Hospital de San Carlos. The artworks displayed here include those of Juan Gris, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso. The star attraction of the museum is Picasso's controversial Guernica, depicting the Nazi bombing of the Basque town in 1937 in support of Franco's cause in the Spanish Civil War. Until 1980 this painting hung in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Address: 52 Calle Santa Isabel
Website: www.museoreinasofia.es
Telephone: 91 774 1000
Opening time: Monday to Saturday 10am and 9pm, and on Sundays between 10am and 2.30pm. Closed on Tuesdays
Admission: €6; concessions available. Free on Saturdays from 2.30pm to 9pm and Sundays

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