Museo Carmen Thyssen

Memory of the Streets

In this exhibition three women photographers explore the streets of Barcelona in three consecutive periods of key importance in Spain’s recent history. Margaret Michaelis, who arrived from Berlin in 1933, came across the modern city of the 1930s then in the midst of transformation and growt...

Provocative Materials for Thought Contemporary Japanese Photography. José Luis Soler Vila Collection

Featuring an extensive selection of photographs from the José Luis Soler Vila Collection, which are displayed in the Sala Noble and Espacio ArteSonado, this exhibition brings together and summarises the main contributions made by photographers active in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s to the ph...

The Collection grows. Recent acquisitions

Eighteen works of different styles and periods swell the Museo Carmen Thyssen Collection with themes as important as Orientalism, the portrait or the nude. This presentation reaffirms the character of the Permanent Collection and proves that this is a living, constantly growing museum. As regards...