Past activities

Madrid Otra Mirada 2020 (MOM-2020)

This year the Manuel Benedito Foundation has joined the more than 180 institutions that open their doors for the celebration of the Heritage Festival, whose theme this year was "The Madrid of Galdós". On the occasion of this event we have conducted guided tours in small groups, adapting to the Covid-19 regulations, where they have been shown the workshop and what was the Madrid context of it.
03/11/2020
Past activities

International Museum Day 2020 (IMD-2020)

This year the foundation celebrated International Museum Day 2020 (May 18) with the slogan "Museums for Equality: diversity and inclusion" through digital media as indicated by ICOM. Therefore, our volunteers shared with our Instagram followers what their collaboration in the museum meant to them and which is their favorite piece of artwork.
03/06/2020
Past activities

Madrid Otra Mirada 2019 (MOM-2019)

We have celebrated the Heritage Festival in Madrid for the second consecutive year with a combined activity between the Sorolla Museum and us entitled "Artist's workshops: Sorolla/Manuel Benedito. Master and disciple" in which we have made a tour of the two institutions showing the workshops of the artists of the time.
09/11/2019
Loans to other institutions

National Museum of Natural Sciences 

On October 3, the temporary exhibition "Recreated Nature" was inaugurated at the National Museum of Natural Sciences. The taxidermic work of the Benedito brothers in which the Manuel Benedito Foundation collaborates with the loan of five works: "My father in his workshop" (1894), "El Pardo" (1910), "Red Ducks" (1944), "Pheasants" (1961) and "Self-portrait" (1936). It will be on view until March 14, 2020.
04/10/2019
Loans to other institutions

Portrait of Rafael Benedito

The portrait of "Rafael Benedito" (1918) is currently on loan to the Institución Libre de Enseñanza/Fundación Giner de los Ríos for the exhibition " The New Education. On the centenary of the Institute - School" (September 2019-April 2020).
18/09/2019
Loans to other institutions

La Gitana

"La Gitana"(1909) is currently on loan to the Museum Carmen Thyssen Málaga for the exhibition "Perversity. Femmes fatales in modern art 1880-1950" . from 30 March to 8 September 2019".
10/06/2019
Past activities

Madrid Otra Mirada 2018 (MOM-2018)

For the first year, the Manuel Benedito Foundation has joined Madrid Otra Mirada (MOM), organized by the City Hall of Madrid and, together with the Sorolla Museum, a tour has been set up between the two institutions to show the workshop of the master and his disciple.
08/11/2018