One of the major advances in recent years has taken place in the field of culture. Today, more than ever, Malaga is familiar on all the cultural circuits. This is due, above all, to the recent opening of two museums: the Pompidou Centre and the Russian Museum, which join other large art galleries located in the city of Malaga, such as the Picasso Museum and the Carmen Thyssen Museum.
Pompidou Centre Malaga
The Pompidou Centre Malaga is the first branch of the Georges Pompidou Centre outside France. Located in one of the top tourist spots of the city of Malaga, Muelle Uno (Dock One), it was opened to the public last March.
It is housed in the so-called “El Cubo” (The Cube), a cutting-edge two-storey building with more than 6,000 square metres of exhibition space.
The museum offers a mixture of high-quality artistic disciplines (dance, performance, words, etc.), and it is worth highlighting both the wealth of the collection and the excellence of the programming.
The time frame corresponds to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with almost 90 works belonging to the permanent collection, which can provoke sensations ranging from the French suffering at the hands of the Nazis, to Magritte's sharp, piercing portraits of women.
As well as the permanent collection, including such outstanding names as Picasso, Giacometti and Frida Kahlo, the project contemplates presenting two or three temporary collections every year. The idea is to have exhibitions that open up towards other artistic disciplines (dance, cinema, words, movement) and which will supplement the museum's offer, endowing visits with an incomparable richness.
Russian Museum
The Russian Museum in Malaga receives works ceded by the Russian State Museum of Saint Petersburg and its mission is to raise awareness of the best creations of one of the great European countries in terms of art. Located on the site of a former tobacco factory in Malaga, the museum offers an unparalleled journey through different periods of art. Open from Tuesday to Sunday (9:30 – 20:00).
It is the first branch of the Russian Museum in Europe and offers visitors a hundred pieces dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, including works by renowned painters such as Kandinsky, Chagall and Tatlin.
The gallery is currently hosting the Exhibition "Russian art from icons to the 20th century" open to the public. This exhibition starts in the sixteenth century with the long tradition of icons and comes to an end with the Khrushchev Thaw halfway through the twentieth century.
Visiting Malaga today is to submerge yourself in one of the most complete cultural offerings in Spain; it is little wonder that Malaga is starting to be called the "city of museums". And with good reason.
