Cerralbo Museum in Madrid Reopens on Tuesday, Dec. 14.

Cerralbo Museum in Madrid Reopens on Tuesday, Dec. 14. With an open-door session between Dec. 14 and 19, the Cerralbo Museum –dealing with Spanish collection from the late 19^th century and embracing paintings by Tintoretto, El Greco, Goya, Zurbaran- will reopen on Tuesday, Dec. 14 following a four-month remodeling process.

The reopening is scheduled as part of the open-door session slated from Dec. 14 thru 19 with free entrance.

As part of the streamlining of State-run museums, the Ministry of Culture –by means of the General Subdivision of State Museums and the Management Office of Infrastructure and Equipment attached to it, played a decisive role in the upgrading of the building’s security and air-conditioning systems in an effort to improve the visitors’ wellbeing and the proper preservation of the collections.

The museum’s remodeling brought along the 2008 Heritage Conservation Medal within the framework of the European Union Cultural Heritage Prize and the Europe Nostra Contest.

Labeled as a palace-museum, the building is a token of Madrid’s past high-life society as it preserves the essence of the time when it was built under the auspices of Don Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, 17^th Marquis of Cerralbo.

Source: Press release sent by Laura Cerrato. Communications Department. comunicación.cerralbo@mcu.es

Cerralbo Museum

C/ Ventura Rodriguez 17. 28008 Madrid. Tel: 915 473 646 / 647. http://museocerralbo.mcu.es