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Madrid Original ® offers quality private guided tours of Madrid to visitors like you. Our website’s main goal is to provide information about us and our private guided tours to future visitors, but the virtual traveller will also find free valuable information about Madrid’s history, Madrid's heritage, current events in Madrid and other practical info. Why don’t you start with our Brief summary of Madrid History or with Madrid Top 10 Landmarks?
EXHIBITION at the Thyssen: Matisse 1917-1941
Detail of one the Matisse Odalisques Between 1917 and 1941, Matisse had a second artistic life. Those were years when everyone reacted to the agony of WW1 with new expressive accents and new behaviors. Matisse was no exception: only he tried simultaneously to find old roots and new lanes.

Thyssen Museum. From 9/Jun/09 to 20/Sep/09
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EXHIBITION AT THE PRADO: Sorolla

Sorolla: Niños en la playa Joaquín Sorolla’s hour sounds in the Prado Museum, which now gathers more than one hundred of his works to pay tribute to the most famous of Spanish postimpressionists, and maybe the most popular artist in the country. Mediterranean sun and sea will meet once again their best interpreter in the largest anthology devoted to Sorolla since 1963.

Prado Museum. From 26/May/09 to 6/Sep/09.

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EXHIBITION at the Reina Sofía: Juan Muñoz

Juan Muñoz: Sarah with mirror Amidst the sculptures of Juan Muñoz we move as in a strange dream from which it is impossible to wake up. There is no need of any dramatic or unpleasant event in the dream for us to feel strangeness and a certain paradoxical desire of evasion towards reality. Muñoz’s laughing characters tear our soul, maybe because amidst them walks the ghost of the artist who left us 8 years ago.

Museo Reina Sofía. From 22/Apr/09 to 31/Aug/09

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EXHIBITION at the Royal Palace: Charles IV, collector
A detail of Mengs Dawn Charles IV, the good-natured king staring at us from Goya’s canvases, with a shy, discreet air, becomes for once the subject of an exhibition. It won’t be his military victories or political decisions that we will remember, but his lust for art as sponsor and collector.

Royal Palace. From 23/Apr/09 to 19/Jul/09
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What's new in our website... and beyond
Exhibition at the new Fundación MAPFRE at the Palacio de la Duquesa de Medina de las Torres (Recoletos 23): "Forgetting Rodin? Sculpture in Paris 1905-1914"  ----- Exhibition at the Caixaforum Madrid : "The Worlds of Islam at the Agha Kan Museum"  ----- Exhibitions of great photographers: Annie Leibovitz (Sala de la CAM en Alcalá 31), Gabriela Iturbide (Fundación MAPFRE), Dorothea Lange (Fundación ICO) and Gerhard Richter (Fundación Telefónica) ----- Painting lent by the Capodimonte Museum: Artemisa Gentileschi's "Judith and Holophernes" at the Thyssen Museum ----- Exhibition at the Reina Sofía Museum : Esquizos ----- New display of the Reina Sofía Museum permanent collection ----- New display of the 18th century collection at the Prado Museum ----- Luca Giordano's "Rubens painting the Allegory of Peace" holds the center of Upper Gallery at the Prado Museum ----- Last months for Murillo and Ribera display at the Prado Museum ----- Las Meninas, perspective reopened : from the middle of the Prado's Upper Gallery you will once again admire Velázquez's masterpiece and Goya's "Family of Charles IV" ----- Exhibition at the Thyssen Museum : "Matisse 1917-1941" ----- Exhibition at the Prado Museum : "Sorolla" -----  Exhibition the Reina Sofía Museum: "Juan Muñoz"  ----- Exhibition at the Royal Palace: "Charles IV, collector"  ----- Annual Programs of guided visits in Madrid ----- Art Initiation and Appreciation Practical Course ----- 2008-2009 Program for Art Exhibitions in Madrid.
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