Baroness Thyssen chooses Andorra as the location for her new museum
09/01/2017
March 15, 2017. This is the date set to open the new Carmen Thyssen Andorra museum to the public. Located in the town of Escaldes-Engordany, specifically on the ground floor of one of the most emblematic buildings in Andorra, the old Hotel Valira, this new museum space will be added to the different museums -Museum of Madrid and Museum of Malaga- in the exhibiting the notorious art collection owned by the Thyssen family.
The Thyssen Family, committed to Andorra
The choice of Andorra as the location for the new Thyssen museum, which will have an area of 250 square meters and will offer temporary exhibitions that will last between ten and eleven months, is not at all random. In this way, with the materialization of this project, the Thyssen family, headed by Carmen Cervera, reaffirms the close relationship it has had with Andorra for years. A bond that began to be forged in 1992, when the Baroness and Baron Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza decided to establish their residence in the small country of the Pyrenees, and which has been strengthened in recent months thanks to the acquisition by the family of two houses in the exclusive Andorran urbanization of Can Diumenge.
First level project ‘four bands’
Although the Thyssen family had been considering the idea of opening an art museum in Andorra for some time, it was not until 2016 that this project was able to materialize. A proposal of great magnitude that, as such, has required the involvement of different institutions to become a reality.
In this way, the Thyssen Andorra Museum was born thanks to a 'four-way' work, in which the Reig family, owner of the land where the museum will be located and who will assume the adaptation costs, collaborates, the Escaldes City Council, which will pay the rent, the Andorran Ministry of Culture, which will assume the maintenance of the facilities and, finally, the Andorra Museum Foundation, which will be in charge of paying the salaries of the employees. Leading them all will be Guille Cervera, the baroness's nephew and also a resident of Andorra, who has been appointed as the museum's artistic director.
Wide variety of artistic styles
With a total of 26 paintings that will go from the end of realism, in the 19th century, to hyper-realism at the end of the 20th century, ‘Scenarios’ will be the first collection that can be visited at the Thyssen Andorra Museum. In addition, the museum will also host other exhibitions featuring French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, American Impressionism, Catalan Modernism, Cubism, German Expressionism, and American Hyperrealism. The objective? Reach 60,000 visitors during the first year. Without a doubt, a first-rate museum reference for the Principality of Andorra.
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