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30th Anniversary of the Reina Sofía Museum

October 31, 2020 has been 30 years old, since the Reina Sofía Museum opened its doors as a Museum and to celebrate it, the public has been able to see it throughout the day for free.

Visitors have been able to see the emblematic works of the Collection, and visit the temporary exhibitions of the Spanish artists Concha Jerez and Ignacio Gómez de Liaño; the two exhibitions that the Museum on Sound Art has programmed this year: Disonata. Sound art until 1980; Audiosphere. Sound experimentation 1980-2020 and the Niño de Elche installation. Invisible Auto Sacramental. A sound representation from Val del Omar. The two Retiro venues: Palacio de Velázquez and de Cristal, will also remain open with exhibitions, the one dedicated to Anna-Eva Bergman and Petrit Halilaj, respectively.

Coinciding with the celebration of this anniversary, as of November 11, one of the most anticipated exhibitions of this autumn will be able to be visited at the Museum’s headquarters: Mondrian and De Stijl, which has been organized together with the Stichting Kunstmuseum den Haag .

With the creation of this new national museum, all efforts were concentrated, not only on reviving the panorama of the public offer of modern and contemporary art both in permanent collections and in temporary exhibitions, but also on its becoming a a dynamic center, open to new trends. The Reina Sofía Museum arises with the desire to act as a motor and animator of culture and artistic creation, thus responding to the vitality of Spanish society with the emergence of young artists and new researchers.

current situation

Today the Reina Sofía Museum is immersed in the great change that new technologies offer us, a change that has also been driven by the current situation and that places us in the post-covid era. Today we work for a more sustainable institution, betting on digitization, on the archive in a broad sense, for being a connected museum and, in the words of its director, Manuel Borja-Villel:

“A museum of affections to take care of ourselves and to take care of”

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