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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Calle Santa Isabel 52. Map 7 C5.
Tel 91 774 10 00.
Open 10am–9pm Mon, Wed–Sat,
10am–7pm Sun. Closed 1 & 6 Jan,
1 & 15 May, 9 Nov, 24, 25 & 31 Dec,
some pub hols. & (free after 7pm
Mon, Wed–Sat & after 1:30pm
Sun). ^ 7 8 0 d - =
∑ museoreinasofia.es
Transport
 Atocha. @ 6, 14, 19, 27,
. The Gathering at Pombo Café (1920) 45, 55, 86.
José Gutiérrez Solana depicts a gathering
of intellectuals (tertulia) in a famous café
in Madrid, which no longer exists.
Gallery Guide
The permanent collection is in
the Sabatini Building. Collection 1
on the second floor displays
works dating from 1900 to 1945,
and includes rooms dedicated
to important movements such
as Cubism and Surrealism;
Collection 2 on the fourth floor
has works dating from 1945 to
1968, including representatives
of Pop Art, Minimalism and
more recent tendencies.
Collection 3: From Revolt to
Postmodernity (1962–1982) is
located in the Nouvel Building.

Glass lift

Entrance
Visitors admiring Guernica
. Picasso’s Guernica
The most famous single work of the 20th
century, this Civil War protest painting (see
pp70–71) was commis sioned by the Spanish
Republican government in 1937 for a Paris
exhi bition. The artist found his inspiration
in the mass air attack of the same year on
the Basque town of Gernika-Lumo (see
pp122–3), by German pilots flying for the
Nationalist air force. The painting hung in
a New York gallery until 1981, reflecting
the artist’s wish that it should not return to
Toki-Egin (Homenaje a San Juan de la Cruz) (1990) Spain until democracy was re-established.
In his abstract sculptures, Eduardo Chillida used a variety of It was moved here from the Prado in 1992.
materials, such as wood, iron and steel, to convey strength.

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