IVAM – Julio González Center

Opened in 1989 with the aim of promoting research and dissemination of twentieth-century art, the IVAM has become in a few years one of the main contemporary art museums on the world scene. The Julio González Center is a new building located on Guillem de Castro street.

The Julio González Center is a modern building, with a forceful façade that highlights the large glazed lobby under a cantilevered canopy. Inside, it has several galleries of sober design so that nothing distracts the attention of the visitor while contemplating the works of art. The museum’s collections cover the main artistic avant-gardes of the twentieth century, from the first steps of abstraction, typographic assembly and photomontage, to European Informalism, Pop Art or New Figuration, without losing sight of the latest trends of the beginning of the new century. In addition, in an underground room you can see a long stretch of the late medieval wall of the city, discovered during the construction of the building.

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