Museo de Arte Moderno (Madrid)

Museum of Modern Art
Museo de Arte Moderno
Former museum building
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EstablishedAugust 1, 1898 (1898-08-01)
DissolvedFebruary 5, 1971; 53 years ago (1971-02-05)
LocationPaseo de Recoletos, 20
Madrid, Community of Madrid,  Spain
Coordinates40°25′24″N 3°41′24″W / 40.42333°N 3.69000°W / 40.42333; -3.69000
TypeArt museum

The Museum of Modern Art (Museo de Arte Moderno or M.A.M.) was the Spanish national museum dedicated to 19th- and 20th-century painting. It was set up in 1894. It closed in 1971, when its 19th-century collections were merged into those of the Museo del Prado, but housed at the Casón del Buen Retiro, and its 20th-century collections formed into the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo or MEAC), the predecessor of the present-day Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

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