About Museo Arte

Museo Arte is one of the longest continuously operating art museums in Spain. Founded in 1864, it offers a diverse spectrum of collections including Asian and European artworks, photography, and Ceramics from around the world.

Museo Arte offers an anay of educational programs and works closely with the local schools to help reinforce the importance of art in the classrooms.

e conmunity can get involved with the museum by attending one of the many social events including jazz night, art in the park, and private exhibit showings. Museo Arte takes great pride in maintaining its reputation for exhibiting high quality artwork in a pleasant, clean, friendly environment. Come join us in a celebration of art and culture.

The Collection

The creation of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in 1990, met the need for a museum project that reflected contemporary Spanish art in relation to the international context. Its initial collection comprised bodies of work from various sources, including the now defunct Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art and the collection of 20th-century art from the Prado Museum, which contained the important series of works by Pablo Picasso related to Guernica.

The Collection of the Museo Reina Sofía includes works produced between the late 19th century and the present day. It currently boasts over 20,000 works in every artistic medium: approximately 4,100 paintings, more than 1,700 sculptures, nearly 3,600 drawings, over 5,500 prints, 4,230 photographs, approximately 120 installations and 40 video installations, 400 film and video creations, over 100 pieces of decorative art and 35 architectural works. Only about 5% of these are on display as part of the museum collection, like artworks by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Juan Gris, José Gutiérrez Solana, Maruja Mallo, Brassaï, Jean Dubuffet, Robert Delaunay, Georges Braque, Yves Klein, Robert Motherwell, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, René Magritte, Gerhard Richter, Luis Gordillo, Juan Muñoz, Antoni Muntadas, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sol LeWitt or Marcel Broodthaers.