Museo Reina Sofía

Picasso's Guernica is displayed at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. The painting was made in 1937 in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

The Reina Sofia is Spain's national museum for 20th-century and contemporary art. It opened in 1992 and is especially associated with Spanish modernists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Joan Miro.

Yes, the Reina Sofia is part of Madrid's major museum corridor near the Prado and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Many visitors combine it with the Prado because the museums focus on different periods of Spanish and European art.

Guernica is one of the museum's anchor works because it connects modern art with a specific historical event from 1937. The surrounding galleries usually help place Picasso's painting in the context of the Spanish Civil War and European avant-garde art.