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Spain, Portugal and Latin America are filled with proposals on International Museum Day
Agendas full of initiatives will fill museums in every corner of the planet.
One of the great moments of the museum and cultural panorama of the year arrives with the International Day that ICOM has been organizing since 1977. A new edition with a clear and direct objective, the future of museums in communities in constant change. A change and a modification of today's society, where transformation is part of daily life and the different museums around the world are at the forefront of change, of dynamism always in parallel with global events.
On the weekend of May 17 and 18, the museums of the Spanish and Portuguese panorama will have programs full of moments, activities, but above all, exhibitions. The museums are part of the whole of a city, a municipality, a country. Many of these museum spaces will offer family activities, workshops, guided tours, night concerts, with a Guggenheim in Bilbao that falls within Biscay is a museum. It will be a good time to create a tour and a look with the temporary exhibitions of Helen Frankenthaler or Vito Acconci.
Jannus, Helen Frankenthaler (1990). Guggenheim Bilbao
Madrid will once again be the epicenter of International Museum Day and the Reina Sofia National Museum has created a weekend full of proposals, in addition to temporary exhibitions such as Néstor retrobat, Ritmes, Laia Estruch and Hello everyone or Huguette Caland and A life in a few lines. Up to sixteen museums in the Spanish capital will be free during the weekend and the historical-cultural axis accumulates an event full of initiatives where the element of awareness about the value of institutions for social and cultural exchange is also offered.
Malaga will be one of the nerve centers of these days and the archaeological complex of Dolmens of Antequera have created an open-air prehistory workshop-museum. The Museum of Malaga gives the guided tour Pharaohs in the Museum or the headquarters of the Centre Pompidou will have moments for the temporary exhibition of Vassily Kandinsky. Pioneer of abstract art or the visit-workshop with Kandinsky in family.
Still Life [Natureza Morta], Paloma Varga Weisz (2016). MACAM
Within the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal will create an important celebration of art and culture for everyone. MACAM is joining in with a thematic visit for War: Reality, Myth and Fiction based on the emblematic work No life Lost II from 2015. At the Royal Treasury Museum, you can take part in a guided tour of the goldsmith's collection of Kings Ferdinand II and Louis or a crown jewels making workshop.
Crossing the ocean, it is necessary to stop in different corners of the American territory and the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín has decided to conceive an agenda with a cooking laboratory, concerts, textile graffiti or guided tours of the exhibition by Juan Fernando Herrán Materialities and constellations. In Santiago de Chile, specifically at the National Museum of Fine Arts, two important exhibitions head the bill: A collection for the future: new works for the MNBA and Arsfactus. Readings that take shape.
In the capital of Mexico, at the Museum of Fine Arts, there will be a moment of dialogue with one of the important exhibitions of this 2025, The Impressionist Revolution: from Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art, an exhibition that opened on March 25 and can be visited until July 27. The National Museum of Anthropology will be the setting for a posthumous tribute to researcher Ana Graciela Bedolla Giles, recognized for her work in creating educational, inclusive and gender-sensitive museums.
Materialitats i constel·lacions al Museu d'Art Modern de Medellín.
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