Museo de Arte Moderno (Madrid)
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Museo de Arte Moderno | |
Established | August 1, 1898 |
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Dissolved | February 5, 1971 |
Location | Paseo de Recoletos, 20 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain |
Coordinates | 40°25′24″N 3°41′24″W / 40.42333°N 3.69000°W |
Type | Art 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.