Museum of Romanticism, Art museum in central Madrid, Spain.
The Museum of Romanticism occupies a palace from the late 1700s and displays furniture, paintings, and decorative objects from the 1800s across two floors. The collection includes works by Spanish artists and rooms that recreate how the upper classes lived in Madrid during that period.
Benigno de la Vega-Inclán founded the museum in 1924 to preserve the art and lifestyle of the Romantic period. It received its current name as Museo Nacional del Romanticismo in 2009 through a Council of Ministers decree.
The museum keeps the everyday customs of 19th-century Spain, focusing on the Romantic movement between 1808 and 1860. Its rooms recreate a historic house with a dining room and billiard room, and displays include items linked to the writer Mariano José de Larra. The building and collection were protected as a historical-artistic monument in 1962.
The museum opens longer hours from May through October and shorter hours from November through April. Rooms are accessible by staircase, and the building sits on a quiet street in central Madrid.
The museum keeps a room devoted to the writer Mariano José de Larra, with items linked to his life and work. The building itself, a late-18th-century palace, was protected as a historical-artistic monument in 1962, together with its collection. Its attic floor exists but is not open to the public.
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