Museo de Arte Abstracto Espanol, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

4.5 (1.020 reviews) Wednesday: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #2 in Castile-La Mancha Art Museums

A must see museum

The Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in Cuenca exhibits a permanent collection of 129 paintings and sculptures by Spanish artists of the Abstract Generation of the 1950s and 60s (Millares, Tàpies, Sempere, Torner, Rueda, Zóbel, Saura, among some thirty other artists), as well as other artists from the 1980s and 90s.In 1980, the founder of the Museum, Fernando Zóbel, donated its collection to the Fundación Juan March, which then incorporated it into its own collection. Situated in the Casas Colgadas (Hanging Houses) of the city of Cuenca, in a late-fifteenth-century medieval building, property of the city, the Museum has undergone various renovations and, in 1994, inaugurated its galleries for temporary exhibitions.

Address

Calle Canonigos s/n Casas Colgadas, 16001 Cuenca Spain

Mobile

+34 969 21 29 83

Website

http://www.march.es/arte/cuenca/index.aspx?l=2

Email

[email protected]

Working hours

Monday :
Tuesday : 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday : 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Thursday : 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Friday : 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Saturday : 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sunday : 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM

Current local date and time now

Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 3:51

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4hans-jaguar 5:00 PM Jun 12, 2022
Visiting Cuenca.
The museum is to say it this way, on the backside of the “Hanging Houses”, and was founded on the initiative of the artist Fernando Zóbel in the year 1966, and is part of the “Casas Colgadas”, and so a very unique medieval building that forms part of the urban fabric of the old town of Cuenca. In the year 1980, Fernando Zóbel donated his collection of painting, sculpture, drawing and graphic work, as well as his personal library and a set of his diaries and more than one hundred and thirty notebooks, to the Juan March Foundation. Since then, the Foundation has owned the museum and is responsible for preserving and updating the legacy received, which it has enriched with its own funds and new acquisitions. Unfortunatly the museum was closed on the moment of our visit, and wil normaly re-open on 07/06/22, so no pictures from the inside, but is seems to be very interesting location.
5Steaklover71 5:00 PM Aug 17, 2005
Greatest surprise treat in Spain
If you love modern art, in a beautiful building, with magnificent views to match the magnificent Tapies, Chillida, and other art, do not miss a trip to this wonderful town on the side of a mountain. After a wonderful art tour of Spain and its great museums, and having never heard of this museum, or for that matter, Cuenca, I would only go back to Spain if the trip included the Mueso de Arte Abstracto. Do not miss it.