Special museums
Guided visits to Madrid’s lesser-known yet precious and relaxing museums: Royal Academy, Lázaro Galdiano, Sorolla…
Sorolla Museum: the painter in his studio
Sorolla is the main representative of what could be considered Spanish Impressionist, although the concept doesn’t fit absolutely to the Mediterranean light sea-side views which made him famous all over the world. He was specially appreciated in the United...
Archeological Museum: Atapuerca-Alhambra
The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional-MAN) was born in 1867 to host the most valuable remains of the past found in Spanish ground. The present set up recovers that purpose. Where shall we start from? Visiting the MAN is a vertiginous walk...
Royal Academy, school of artists
The Museum of the Fine Arts Royal Academy of Saint Ferdinand exhibits the collection of the academic institution where, for instance, Goya taught and Picasso took lessons. As this institution existed even before the Prado, works of Art expropriated (for instance, to...
Lazaro Galdiano Museum: a luxury collection
The Lázaro Galdiano Museum is a little gem held in a Neo-Renaissance palace in aristocratic quarter “Barrio de Salamanca”. The collection housed in this palace was gathered by the couple formed by exquisite Spanish editor José Lázaro Galdiano and...
Museum of Romanticism: flashback to 19th c.
Fall 2009: After 8 years of reforms, Madrid recovered its Romantic Museum, renamed National Museum of Romanticism. Its new name revealed its new mission: helping the visitor travel to the very heart of 19th century. More than any other 1800s cultural movements,...
Museo del Traje: the dress of History
If our clothes say a lot about us, the history of garment is our history. Let’s focus on our past in a different way, through Madrid’s Museo del Traje (Garment Museum). From the sociological point of view –for the amount of information on a society provided by...We are in Facebook!
