Thematic tours

 An itinerary designed to prompt thought on sustainability through Art masterpieces.  

Seas, lakes, springs, streams and rivers inundate the galleries of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, beckoning us to enjoy a pleasant immersion that harmoniously links together art, history and nature.

Images of women reading or holding a book are very common in European painting from the Renaissance onwards. Books have symbolic connotations of status, knowledge and refinement.

A gender perspective on inhabiting interiors.

The performing arts as an arena of encounter.  

Over the centuries, the nude has inspired some of the most sublime works in western art.

 Many of these moments  are linked to leisure pursuits or celebrations where diversions – either planned or spontaneous – are a welcome break from routine, and provide enjoyment and happiness.

A tour of cities represented, imagined and narrated, establishing a dialogue between the novel Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

An exploration of the works that inspired the imagery of the video game Nubla. 

An opportunity to turn travellers, and discover the throb and thrill of this fascinating city.

Our thematic route through the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza rooms to a land (as in Baudelaire’s dream in Invitation to the Voyage) where “all is order and beauty, luxury, peace and pleasure”.

The present tour of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection offers a survey of Western art from the end of the Middle Ages to the present with the aim of analysing the numerous functions of floral symbols .

The guiding thread of this survey is that of inventions,frequently not the principal subject of the painting: on the contrary, they are secondary objects that illustrate the numerous inventions that have made our lives easier and more comfortable.

A history of the evolution of painting step by step in the Low Countries from the 15^th to the 20^th centuries.

A survey of the work of seven women artists of Russian origin who made a decisive contribution to the development of the avant-garde movements of the early 20^th century.