Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, usually called the Museo Reina Sofía, is a museum of twentieth-century and contemporary art in Madrid, Spain. It occupies the former Hospital General de Madrid, an eighteenth-century neoclassical building near Atocha station, now known as the Sabatini building after the Italian architect who completed its design. The museum opened as such in 1992, although the building had already hosted temporary exhibitions. In 2005 the Nouvel building, designed by Jean Nouvel, opened and considerably enlarged the institution. It forms the southern corner of Madrid's Triangle of Art, alongside the Prado and the Thyssen-Bornemisza.

The permanent collection rests on a core of Spanish artists, with Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró especially well represented. The surrealism and cubism holdings are also prominent, featuring Juan Gris and María Blanchard alongside Robert Delaunay. Works listed on the museum's website include Guernica by Pablo Picasso, The Great Masturbator by Salvador Dalí, and La comulgante by María Blanchard, as well as several paintings by Juan Gris, Vasili Kandinsky and Julio Romero de Torres.

The museum grew out of the Museo de Arte Moderno, founded in 1894, and passed through several stages before opening as an art centre in 1986 and becoming a state museum in 1988. It now depends on the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and is one of the most visited museums in Spain.