Museums in Spain

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Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 13 июл 2014, 13:57

Prado Museum will offer guests a "double" ticket at a discounted price
Prado Museum will offer visitors a new model of individual ticket "2 visits", which will allow the buyer to visit the gallery on two different days for one year at a price of 20 euros.

This ticket that each visit costs 10 euros instead of the usual 14, is special, which is not covered by the exemptions.

This initiative is one of the new measures taken by the museum in order to attract and retain more visitors.

As an instrument to promote the sale of tickets to tour operators, hotels and other intermediaries, the Prado will also encourage the purchase of more than 100 tickets to the museum, one euro at reducing the price of each ticket (from 14 to 13 euros).

Finally, groups of students or university students still be able to visit Madrid's museum for free, while the members of the Foundation of Friends of the Prado Museum will be granted a discount established by agreement between the museum and the foundation.

In addition, you can still visit the museum free of charge:

From Monday to Saturday from 18.00 to 20.00 and on Sundays and holidays - from 17.00 to 19.00

November 19 (Day of the Prado Museum) and 18 May (International Museum Day)

Prado Museum Address: Paseo del Prado, s / n, 28014 Madrid

Tel.: 913 30 28 00
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Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 08 авг 2014, 14:17

Barcelona: the museum Cosmocaixa show triceratops head
The museum Cosmocaixa in Barcelona will be put up giant head dinosaur Triceratops horridus species, body length of almost 10 meters, weight - about 6 tons. It can be seen in the exhibition "In the wake of a triceratops. Dinosaurs and much more."

According to experts, assessors remains of the aforementioned dinosaur, he was head of the largest animal that has ever existed on earth. In Barcelona, the exhibition will feature models and other dinosaurs.

Through the study of fingerprints on the spot detection triceratops head became known that these creatures lived in striated river valleys, which are often flooded. Perhaps found the remains belonged to a wounded or old dinosaur that walked to the river to quench their thirst, and died, stuck in mud at the water's edge.

Triceratops head, discovered in 1999 on a ranch in North Dakota (USA), is considered one of the best preserved sites of its kind in the world. Dinosaurs Triceratops horridus species were herbivorous and used the horns and neck for protection against aggressive predatory relatives in the Upper Cretaceous period (71 to 65 million years ago).

Visitors to the museum Cosmocaixa waiting route, in which they will be able to see the dinosaurs in their real historical context. The first stage will be devoted to the Permian period. Here, guests will see the skeleton of a primitive reptile kaptorinida and lyufengozavra and a pterosaur skeleton.

During the Jurassic period, the "golden era" of the dinosaurs, there were the largest specimens - such as Apatosaurus, thigh which will be exhibited in CosmoCaixa. At the end of the route visitors to the museum will be able to see the whole skeleton of one of the last dinosaurs that lived on Earth during the late Cretaceous period - a Protoceratops.
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Madrid: In the capital, opened Europe's first museum of espionage

Today, the cultural center of the Centro Cultural Padre Vallet de Pozuelo de Alarcón in Madrid opened Europe's first Spy museum (Museo del espia). From 6 to 25 October 2014 in honor of the opening of the new exhibition space everyone will be able to explore a huge collection of spy documents, cipher machines, equipment, weapons and other "widgets", which at various times used the secret agents of various intelligence services.

Among the exhibits of the Museum of espionage: fake ID Colonel Juan Alberto Perote, counterintelligence agent CESID, which he used during his work in Russia, a fake passport David Vidal of CNI, designed for African operations, detailed descriptions and methods of espionage technology CIA, MOSAD, M16 and the other intelligence agencies, created by their leaders, and more.

The museum will be organized fun children's programs for "little spies" and lovers of art and history can visit the interesting displays on the impact of espionage adventure literature, film, theater and scenic art of the twentieth century.
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Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 08 дек 2014, 14:09

Galicia: Network natural museums in the reserve Xurés open at the end of the year

In late December 2014 in the picturesque national park Parque Natural Baixa Limia-Serra do Xurés, located next to the Galician city of Ourense (Ourense), will open an unusual museum network.

Combined with each other exhibition areas will become a kind of information centers for tourists: here you can get maps, plan your route based on the interesting features of the local flora and fauna, as well as a virtual tour of the park and visit the photo exhibition.

Total network includes six museums in Spain - they are located in the municipalities of Bande, Calvos de Randín, Entrimo, Lobeira, Lobios and Muíños. Each of them is remarkable: in Banda are ancient monuments of Romanesque architecture in Lobeyre regular original folklore events, and in Entrimo very interesting and unusual geological landscape. Spanish network of museums also combined with a similar Portuguese chain, located on the side of the border in the same reserve. There are such regions as the Porta do Mezio (Arcos de Valdevez), Porta de Lamas de Mouro (Melgaço), Porta de Paradela (Montalegre), Porta do Lindoso (Ponte da Barca) and Porta do Campo do Gerês (Terras de Bouro) .
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Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 18 дек 2014, 18:15

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona improved ticketing system

In the Picasso Museum in Barcelona has created a new system of ticket sales, designed to reduce queues of visitors daily crowding the street Moncada.

As reported by the Spanish news agency, using the platform management intends to promote the realization of tickets online. Both online and at the box office visitors to the museum will be able to choose the time of the visit and go inside via QR-code without having to stand in queues.

In addition, the Museum has implemented a number of technical improvements that will synchronize sale online and at kiosks, and more convenient to do group tours. The main purpose of these innovations is to promote online sales of tickets and reducing queues outside Moncada, as well as more comfortable coexistence with the inhabitants of the area and improve the quality of excursions.

The new system allows you to select tickets for a certain time (at least 2 hours before the intended visit) and pass directly into the halls of a permanent or temporary exhibitions via QR-code, printed or downloaded to a mobile phone.

Visitors can enter the museum for 15 minutes following the exact time in the ticket. Are installed outside the building screens, by which real time can be seen the degree of congestion in the halls of every time segments.
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Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 29 дек 2014, 23:25

Branch of the Russian Museum opened in Spain in 2015

The first overseas branch of the State Russian Museum opened in February 2015 in the Spanish city of Malaga.

According to the press service of the museum, a branch will be in a former tobacco factory La Tabacalera, where there is a museum - a car. Currently, the premises of the building built in 1920 and restored by re-equip the museum space.

In the permanent exhibition "Russian art from icons to the twentieth century" will include about 100 works.

The Spaniards will be able to see masterpieces from all eras of Russian painting. Among them paintings by Alexei Venetsianov, Karl Briullov, Vasily Tropinin, Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov, Boris Kustodiev, Ilya Repin, Zinaida Serebryakova, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Alexander Rodchenko, Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov and other masters.

In addition, the Russian Museum is going over the next 10 years hold a minimum of two temporary exhibitions (every 2-3 months) a year, they will bring about 60 exhibits. In 2015, residents and visitors of the exhibition will see Malaga "Age of Diaghilev" and "Filonov and his entourage."
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Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 08 апр 2015, 17:04

Russian Museum will open a branch in the Spanish Malaga

Russian Museum opens its first European subsidiary: exposition of national art appears in the Spanish Malaga.

Press Service of the Russian Museum reported that the branch opening ceremony will be held in Malaga on Wednesday. The museum added that the administration of the Spanish city was interested in opening a branch, took over the costs of the first three exhibitions, as well as expenses for transportation and insurance of works of art.

"Unique in terms of architecture and the building of the former tobacco factory (Tabacalera), converted now into a cultural center, which will house a branch of the Russian Museum. The branch will be located next to the building with the Museum of Málaga cars that will allow in the future to create interesting joint projects" - said in a statement.

The exposition will be the so-called "permanent" exhibition, designed for 9 months. The first permanent exhibition "Russian Art XV - XX centuries" includes about 100 works. Visitors will be able to branch to see masterpieces from all eras of Russian domestic painting, giving an idea of ​​the long history of Russian art from icons of the XV century to the socialist realism. Among them are paintings of Karl Briullov, Isaak Levitan, Ilya Repin, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Vasily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Pavel Filonov, Kazimir Malevich and other artists.

Also at the opening of the branch will show an exhibition dedicated to the famous impresario Sergei Diaghilev.
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