Moneo Museum Madrid

This museum property located in Madrid also containing the Jerónimos Cloister would and it is used as a venue for temporary exhibitions, restoration workshops, technical offices and other museum services, contained in a new building connected at its lower levels with Villanueva’s.

The most essential part in this project is the area joining the Jerónimos and the Prado. This is where the reception hall, provides all the services needed for receiving visitors – ticket purchase, information, checkrooms,and  telephones. As well as intended for this area are the auditorium, the bookstore and museum shop, a cafeteria and restaurant.

A view of Villanueva‘s apse animates is provided by an open courtyard, visible from the entrances and accessible to the public. From this part visitors can reach the new temporary exhibition galleries, located below ground in the Jerónimos site, as well as the upper levels of the new building.

The new building accommodates a second gallery for temporary exhibitions, seminar rooms, a room for drawings, the library, a technical documentation department, restoration workshops and the spaces necessary for loading and unloading works of art.

One of the main focal points will be the cloister of Los Jerónimos church (found next door) which was dismantled, and re-assembled, piece-by-piece.