Carmen Thyssen Museum (Andorra)

The Carmen Thyssen Museum in Andorra ( Cat. Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra ) is a private art museum in the capital of the Principality of Andorra, Andorra la Vella , founded by Baroness Carmen Thyssen and opened on March 16, 2017. It is managed by the Andorra Museum Foundation , a non-profit foundation whose lifetime presidents are Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza and her son Borja, and the curator and art director is Baroness Guillermo Server's nephew, a well-known pastry chef who also deals with the Thyssen-Bornemisza family collection (in his own words, he “Has always been associated with the meeting, working in the shade”) ^[1] .

Carmen Thyssen Museum in Andorra
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Entrance to the museum, 2017
Established	2017
Founder	Baroness Carmen Thyssen
Address	Andorra la Vella , Andorra
Site

The museum is located at No. 37 on Avinguda Carlemany d'Escaldes ( Escaldes-Engordany community), on the ground floor of the five-story , one of the oldest hotels and spas in Andorra. The building, built in 1933 as a hotel, is an example of the granite architecture of Andorra and has the status of a building with historical and cultural significance.

The museum, which occupies an area of ​​500 m², half of which has been put on display, functions as a small art gallery, where works from the private collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921-2002) and his last wife Carmen Thyssen are exhibited during temporary exhibitions. The first exhibition of the museum, exhibited from March 16, 2017 to January 14, 2018, was Escenaris. De Monet a Estes. De Trouville a Nueva York ("Scenarios: from Monet to Estes , from Trouville to New York "), consisting of 26 paintings.