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Fundacion Juan March

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Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March
Phone:
+34 914 35 42 40

Hours:
Sunday10am - 2pm
Monday11am - 8pm
Tuesday11am - 8pm
Wednesday11am - 8pm
Thursday11am - 8pm
Friday11am - 8pm
Saturday11am - 8pm


The Fundación Juan March is a foundation established in 1955 by Juan March Ordinas, who was Spain's richest man. The Foundation produces exhibitions as well as concert and lecture series. Its headquarters in Madrid houses a library devoted to contemporary Spanish music and theater. It owns and operates the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, in Cuenca, and the Museu Fundación Juan March, in Palma. Its Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences , which has granted nearly one hundred doctoral degrees to Spanish students, is currently incorporated within the Instituto mixto Carlos III/Juan March de Ciencias Sociales at the Charles III University of Madrid. The Madrid headquarters is located in the Salamanca district and was inaugurated in 1975. The building was designed by José Luis Picardo Castellón and features contrasting bands of marble and glass. Outside there are several sculptures. Inside there is a concert hall for chamber music and a hall for lectures , space for exhibitions and a research library. Roughly about 125 concerts, 110 conferences and 4 exhibitions are produced each year. The Fundación streams many of its cultural events via Canal March. Concerts on Wednesdays are regularly broadcast by Radio Clásica, for example, a series on the theme of synesthesia performed in 2016.Catalunya Mùsica also broadcasts the concerts on Saturdays.The Fundación's research library specialises in contemporary Spanish Theatre and Music, Illusionism and Curatorial Studies. Their online library is made up of 10 portals broken down into thematic knowledge areas, with a catalogue of over 180,000 records, including monographs, sheet music, periodicals, photographs, posters and sketches, as well as original manuscript documents. The Fundación also maintains three personal libraries – those of Julio Cortázar, the painter Fernando Zóbel and academic Francisco Ruiz Ramón. It also hosts around 15 personal archives of composers and playwrights.
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