Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid-Opened 6/29/2023
Innovative addition to the Spanish museums landscape
Great masterpieces are being exhibited in this state-of-the-art gallery, whose construction, over the last 25 years, has uncovered part of the Moorish wall with which the city was founded in the 9th century.
The Royal Collections Museum has been meticulously curated to encapsulate centuries of Spain's regal history. Renowned for their artistic patronage, the Spanish royal family has amassed an extraordinary collection of paintings, sculptures, tapestries, and decorative arts, which will now be accessible to the public for the first time in the museum's impressive galleries. It will be organized in chronological order, like a historical narrative that runs through nearly fifteen centuries of Spanish royalty.1
Madrid’s Royal Collections Museum Opens with Treasures of Spanish Royalty. Art & Object. June 28, 2023
For years the Crown rotated among Aragon, Castille, and Catalonia, with occasional stops for a decade or so elsewhere. Madrid is the capital of Spain; Barcelona is the capital of Spanish wealth. Catalonia is heavily taxed to support the remainder of the country, but isn't likely to do anything about it. The last time they tried, leaders went to jail
The Crown rotated among Castlle, Aragon and Catalonia