Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza began collecting in the 1920s, and his son Hans Heinrich bought back works dispersed among relatives and greatly enlarged the collection. In 1992 it went on show in the Palacio de Villahermosa, remodelled by Rafael Moneo, and the Spanish state bought it in 1993. A new wing for the collection of his widow, Carmen Thyssen, opened in 2004.

The collection fills the gaps in Madrid's other museums: early Italian and Flemish panels, Dutch landscapes, Impressionism, German Expressionism and American art. Start on the top floor and walk down through time, past Ghirlandaio's Giovanna Tornabuoni and Caravaggio, to Van Gogh, Kirchner, Hopper's Hotel Room and Lichtenstein.