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The Museo de Arte Abstracto
Español in Cuenca exhibits a permanent
collection of 129 paintings and sculptures by Spanish
artists of the Abstract Generation of the 1950s and 60s (Millares,
Tàpies, Sempere, Torner, Rueda, Zóbel, Saura,
among some thirty other artists), as well as other artists
from the 1980s and 90s.
In 1980, the founder of the Museum, Fernando
Zóbel, donated its collection to the Fundación
Juan March, which then incorporated it into its own collection.
Situated in the Casas
Colgadas (Hanging Houses) of the city of Cuenca, in a
late-fifteenth-century medieval building, property of the
city, the Museum has undergone various renovations and, in
1994, inaugurated its galleries for temporary
exhibitions. In the Museum Shop
visitors can purchase editions of its catalogues, books,
graphic works, and postcards. The Museum administers an educational
program for pre-school, elementary, and junior-high-school
students.
In 1980, the Museum received the Medal of Honor for Merit
in the Fine Arts; in 1981, it was given the European Museum
of the Year Award by the European Council; in 1991 the Medal
of Honor from Castilla-La Mancha; and in 1997, the “Tourism”
Award from Castilla-La Mancha.
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