While you are visiting Madrid, you cannot miss the Reina Sofía Museum, Spain’s national museum of 20th-century art.

The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992, and is named for Queen Sofía. The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art, the highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain’s three greatest 20th-century masters Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró. The most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso’s painting Guernica. Your guide will explain some of this 20th-century Spanish art, from abstractionism to cubism, surrealism to modernism showing you the most important work of the principal artists. This museum is housed in an elegant old hospital building, and its vaulted hallways are the ideal place to discover many of Spain’s finest artists and sculptors. Along with its extensive Spanish art collection, the museum also offers international temporary exhibitions in its many galleries, making it one of the world’s largest museums for modern and contemporary art.

Today, Reina Sofía Museum holds a large number of works. Explore the hallways and galleries with your guide, and learn how and why these talented people created their art.