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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza vs Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
Both are praised by professional reviewers. On balance, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is preferred by most writers compared to Queen Sofia Arts Center. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum comes in at #2 in Madrid with recommendations from 10 sources like Let's Go, goop and The Telegraph.
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
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Paseo del Prado, 8, 28014 Madrid, Spain
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"Opened in 1992, the Thyssen occupies spacious galleries filled with natural light in the late-18th-century Villahermosa Palace (itself finished in 1771)."
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"One of the most extraordinary private collections of predominantly European art in the world, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is a worthy member of Madrid’s ‘Golden Triangle’ of art."
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Travel + Leisure
"The Thyssen’s pieces, purchased by the Spanish state from a private collector in 1992, represent a tremendous breadth of European painters from the 14th to 21st centuries."
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Time Out
"The private collection of the late Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza is widely considered the most important in the world."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"The third leg in Madrid's "golden triangle of art"... one of the world's great private collections, and includes everything from Old Masters to 20th-century Cubists."
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
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Santa Isabel, 52, 28012 Madrid
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Fodor's
"The permanent art collection features 1,000 works on four floors... and, despite concentrating on painting, puts a much higher emphasis on other art forms such as photography and cinema."
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Concierge
"A spectacular triangular-roofed addition by French star architect Jean Nouvel has boosted what was already Spain's most important modern-art museum into the capital's new must-see."
Frommer's
"As the Prado has filled the role of repository for traditional art in Madrid, the Reina Sofía, nicknamed the "MoMA of Madrid," has provided for the world of modern art."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Home to Picasso’s Guernica, arguably Spain’s single most famous artwork, and a host of other important Spanish artworks."
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Travel + Leisure
"Picasso’s Guernica, depicting Franco’s bombing of civilians in Guernica during the civil war, one of the most celebrated antiwar paintings of all time, makes its permanent home here."
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