Essential Museums in Spain

ESSENTIAL MUSEUMS IN SPAIN

Photo: © Enrico Cano

a CENTRO BOTÍN SANTANDER

CENTRO BOTÍN, SANTANDER This art centre stands in a privileged lo cation in the city, in the historic Pereda gardens, overlooking the bay of Santan der. Light and lightness are the keys to the building designed by the architect and Pritzker Prize winner, Renzo Piano . Conceived as a “dock” over the sea, its structure is suspended on pillars and columns that rise to the height of the treetops, integrating with the environ ment and providing fabulous views of

the Cantabrian Sea. Its content is the art collection of the Botín Foundation, specialised in con temporary art, with works on different media and formats, such as paintings, sculptures, photography, drawings, vi deos and installations. It contains pie ces by established international artists such as Tacita Dean, Antoni Munta das, Mona Hatoum, Jannis Kounellis, Juan Uslé, Cristina Iglesias and Martin

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