About CaixaForum Madrid
Opened in 2008, CaixaForum Madrid is a cultural center run by the la Caixa Foundation on the Paseo del Prado in the Triángulo del Arte. Designed by the architects Herzog & de Meuron, the building stands on the site of a former power station and stands out for its futuristic form of metal, copper-colored stone, and a vertical garden with more than 15,000 plants. Here you'll find a mix of museum, auditorium, and conference center. In addition to rotating exhibitions across roughly 2,500 square meters (about 27,000 square feet) of space, a 300-seat hall, multipurpose rooms, a café, a bookstore, and a restaurant offer plenty of opportunities for art, education, and public discussion in the heart of downtown Madrid.
At a glance
- Category
- Museum › Memorials & remembrance sites
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- Address
- P.º del Prado, 36
28014 Madrid, Spain - District
- Centro
- Phone
- +34913307300
- Website
- www.obrasocial.lacaixa.es
- caixaforummadrid@laie.es
- Coordinates
- 40.41111° N · -3.69360° E
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A private centre particularly well-known for the 'vertical garden' by Patrick Blanc installed on a wall in front of the museum, as well as the quite special architecture of the building itself. The vertical garden can be seen from the street outside, just a block south of the Thyssen-Bornemisza and across from the Prado. The museum only displays temporary exhibitions, usually of a very high quality, in fields ranging from archaeology to contemporary art and architecture.
Source: Wikivoyage, „Madrid/Retiro-Paseo del Arte“ · authors per page history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · as of 5/27/2024