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The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza’s two collections comprise almost one thousand works of art, most of them paintings, with which the museum offers… |
Standing almost opposite the Prado Museum and very near the Reina Sofía Modern Art Museum, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, which architect Rafael Moneo was commissioned to design, was the missing cornerstone that finally sealed the triangle of art.
The museum currently houses two collections from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collector-lineage: the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, acquired by the Spanish government from Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in 1993 and on permanent display since the museum opened in 1992; and the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, owned by the baron’s widow and held in deposit by the museum since 2004. These two collections comprise almost one thousand works of art, most of them paintings, with which the museum offers a stroll down the history of European painting, from its beginning in the 13th century to the close of the 20th century.
