International Museum Day 2026 with Radio 3
Friday 22 May 2026
Celebrating International Museum Day in the Museo Reina Sofía’s Nouvel Courtyard
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A museum's permanent collection is like its nerve centre, out of which all other messages emanate. The Museo Reina Sofía's Collection has been developing since 1894 and the foundation of the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, bringing together, almost a century later, all the state's various collections of modern and contemporary art.
The Museo's Collection now comprises almost 25,000 pieces and spans the last decades of the 19th century through to the present day. The principal focus is the history of Spanish art but there is international work too, with a particular emphasis on Latin America.
Collection. Contemporary Art: 1975–Present
A Lecture by Manuel Segade
This video is a recording of Manuel Segade’s lecture on 13 May 2026, in which the Museo Reina Sofía director puts forward a journey through the rehang of the Collections on Floor 4 of the Sabatini Building. After highlighting the progress of this rearrangement, resulting from an organic process and working methods, the lecture renders a panoramic view of the three exhibition routes structuring Collection. Contemporary Art: 1975–Present: A History of Affect in Contemporary Art, The Powers of Fiction: Sculpture, New Materialisms and Relational Aesthetics and The Institution, the Market and the Art that Transends Both. On a final note, Manuel contextualises this undertaking with an analysis of the Museo Reina Sofía’s origins.
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Guided visit to the Collection led by mediator Koumba as part of the Neighborhood Picnic, Museo Reina Sofía, June 10, 2023
Photograph: Paula Lorenzino
The Museo Reina Sofía's main headquarters has two buildings, Sabatini and Nouvel, where you can visit the Collections, ranging from the earliest avant-garde movements to the present day, as well as temporary exhibitions, activities, and events for all audiences. Find out how to get there.
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