2023-06-30 09:03:15
Time.news – Maybe it’s the museum that didn’t exist in Madrid and was needed. Capable of bringing together, in their mingling, fascinating and at the same time heterogeneous objects which together, when exhibited, “offer surprising narratives to the viewer”, writes the Paìs. We are talking about the Gallery of the Royal Collections, designed by Tuñón y Mansilla, the latest work by the architectural studio which opens today and which will be the container of the project conceived by National Heritage, whose main mission is “to try to bring this cultural heritage closer to the citizens”. A “small Hermitage” in the heart of Madrid, it has been defined.
It is a large new museum that contains 650 unique pieces, built at a cost of 172 million euros. A huge amount. It is accessed through an entrance that leaves no glimpse of the strength and majesty of the interior space: more than 40,000 square meters, distributed over seven floors.
In a few hours, the Royal Collections Gallery, the new great museum that can be visited in Madrid, opens to the public. @cdelamor_ has toured its rooms and this is a preview of later he will teach us in detail in the special #TDColeccionesReales
– TVE newscasts (@telediario_tve) June 28, 2023
Conceived in 1998, the international competition to conceive it was however announced in 2002 and the work was only completed in 2015, after quite a few delays, but it was only inaugurated eight years later. The visit allows a journey through five centuries of history and art all related to the monarchy in Spain.
According to the Paìs the building is “an architectural piece whose interior deserves to be visited even without exhibitions, because it has an elegant touch with something at once efficient, ductile and in this case majestic, even for the large pieces it houses. The newspaper specifies that more than a museum “it is a gallery, the Royal Collections Gallery”.
For the Madrid newspaper, the inauguration of the Gallery was also a splendid occasion “to restore many of those pieces which underline the richness and variety of the collection itself: paintings, sculptures, tapestries, furniture, carriages, books, fans, bronzes, porcelain, embroideries, photographs, watches; objects related to the luxury industry”, that is Royal Tapestry Factory in Madrid, Crystals in La Granja, Porcelain in Buen Retiro in Madrid, with a semi-precious stone and mosaic workshop; including that of silk fabrics in Talavera de la Reina and Valencia, of Relojes or Platería de Martínez, in Madrid, “which reveal a powerful commercial network from the 18th century onwards and which could open today an unexplored path for the recovery of the high craftsmanship”.
A visit will certainly arouse enormous curiosity and enthusiasm for the quality and variety of the treasures.
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