Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include collections of Spain's two greatest 20th-century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Certainly, the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's painting Guernica. The Reina Sofía collection has works by artists such as Joan Miró, Eduardo Chillida, Pablo Gargallo, Julio González, Luis Gordillo, Juan Gris, José Gutiérrez Solana, Lucio Muñoz, Jorge Oteiza, Julio Romero de Torres, Pablo Serrano, and Antoni Tàpies. International art represented in the collection include works by Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Robert Delaunay, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Sarah Grilo, Damien Hirst, Donald Judd, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, René Magritte, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Nam June Paik, Man Ray, Diego Rivera, Mark Rothko, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Clyfford Still, Yves Tanguy, and Wolf Vostell. ==Gallery==

Hospital The building is on the site of the first General Hospital of Madrid. King Philip II centralised all the hospitals that were scattered throughout the court. In the eighteenth century, King Ferdinand VI decided to build a new hospital because the facilities at the time were insufficient for the city. The building was designed by architect José de Hermosilla and his successor Francisco Sabatini who did the majority of the work. In 1805, after numerous work stoppages, the building was to assume its function that it had been built for, which was being a hospital, although only one-third of the proposed project by Sabatini was completed. Since then it has undergone various modifications and additions until, in 1969, it was closed down as a hospital. Art museum Extensive modern renovations and additions to the old building were made starting in 1980. The central building of the museum was once an 18th-century hospital. The building functioned as the Centro del Arte (Art Centre) from 1986 until established as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 1988. In 1988, portions of the new museum were opened to the public, mostly in temporary configurations; that same year it was decreed by the Ministry of Culture as a national museum. Its architectural identity was radically changed in 1989 by Ian Ritchie with the addition of three glass circulation towers. Expansion An 8000 m2 (86,000 ft2) expansion costing €92 million designed by French architect Jean Nouvel opened in October 2005. The extension includes spaces for temporary exhibitions, an auditorium of 500 seats, and a 200-seat auditorium, a bookshop, restaurants and administration offices. Ducks Scéno was consultant for scenographic equipment of auditoriums and Arau Acustica for acoustic studies. Other facilities Reina Sofía has other two places where several exhibitions usually take place. These are the Crystal Palace and the Velázquez Palace, both in Retiro Park. File:Reina Sofía front gate.jpg|Front entrance File:Museum Reina Sofía Madrid Spain Espana this is a front photo close up at the Queen Sofia Museum in 2011 month of June.jpg|Close up of the front of the Reina Sofía in Madrid Spain. File:Ampliación del Reina Sofía (2).jpg|Reina Sofía Museum File:Reina Sofía interior.jpg|Interior gallery photo inside the Reina Sofía Museum File:MNCARS ampliación 10.jpg|Inside the Reina Sofía Museum File:Palacio de Cristal, Retiro, Madrid.jpg|Crystal Palace in the Retiro Park, a Reina Sofía exhibition centre ==Notable works==

• Guernica by Pablo Picasso • The Great Masturbator by Salvador Dalí • Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi by Richard Serra • 6 TV Dé-Coll/age by Wolf Vostell ==Popular culture ==

The museum features, as a major location, in Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control (2009). In the 2003 Spanish film Noviembre, the school entrance scenes and some performance scenes were shot in the square in front of the museum. == Controversy ==

In February 2026, Okdiario reported that three elderly Jewish women tourists from Israel were asked to leave the museum after other visitors allegedly shouted insults at them for wearing visible Jewish symbols, including the Star of David and the Israeli flag. According to the report, a museum official instructed a security guard to request that the women leave or conceal the symbols, stating that other visitors were "bothered." The incident, which was recorded on video, was criticized by the women's Spanish companion, who described the episode as racist and suggested it could fall under Spain's Criminal Code provisions on hate crimes. == See also ==