You may not have heard of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. You may not even have any idea how to say the name, but this museum is a new not-to-miss destination that you will want to make a reservation to visit as you are touring Spains capitol city of Madrid. This new art museum takes you back through history, its walls adorned with the greatest collection of paintings in the world.
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is a young museum. It was created when the government of Spain offered to purchase the amazing collection of art for $350 million in 1993. They then created the museum out of the Villahermosa Palace of the late 18th century. It took an additional $45 million in renovations to complete the museum.
Many see a price such as $350 million and are in shock at the amount of money, but the truth of the matter is, this was a tremendous deal for the government of Spain. Many art experts who have seen the pieces in the collection of over 700 paintings disagree. They say the value of the paintings, now hanging in the Madrid gallery, by artists such as Rembrandt, Goya, Drer, El Greco, Canaletto and Caravaggio is somewhere in the area of $1 to $3 billion dollars. There are...
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