New season of the CaixaForum museum network

The program includes 34 exhibitions, including those dedicated to feminine power in the last five thousand years, Berlanga, nature and art, and the gigantic titanosaur of Patagonia
Among everything that is coming in the new season of exhibitions of the CaixaForum museum network of the La Caixa Foundation, presented today, there is little doubt about what is the biggest: a dinosaur. It is the titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum, a sauropod from the Cretaceous period, considered the largest dinosaur that ever existed, almost 40 meters long and weighing 70 tons. And it's literally coming. He is currently traveling to Spain crossing the Atlantic on a ship, like the tyrannosaurus from Lost World: Jurassic Park II on the SS Venture (the name was a tribute to King Kong) and he occupies two entire containers (let's hope the expedition doesn't end equal). This was explained in the traditional seasonal presentation at the CaixaForum in Barcelona by the communications director of the Egidio Ferucglio Paleontological Museum (MEF), Florencia Gigena.

The titanosaur skeleton, the most spectacular part of the Dinosaurs of Patagonia exhibition, which will start at the Cosmocaixa Science Museum in Barcelona (October 25 to June 2) and then stop at the CaixaForum in Madrid (July 18 to November 3, 2024) is a life-size replica, but it will also be exhibited, among other fossils, an impressive authentic femur of the species, a 2.4-meter bone.
In the season, among the 34 exhibitions announced, 10 of them premieres, Veneradas y temedadas also stands out, about feminine power in art and beliefs, a journey in collaboration with the British Museum through 166 works from different cultures and periods , from a Greek statue of Aphrodite to a creation by Marina Abramovic, grouped in areas such as Passion and Desire, Magic and Evil, or Justice and Defense (premieres at CaixaForum Madrid and on September 27 and will then travel to those in Barcelona and Seville ); Art and nature, a century of biomorphism, shows with the collections of the Center Pompidou that highlights the dialogue between art and nature in the artistic creation of the 20th and 21st centuries, from the surrealists to today, as a starting point for rethinking the current links with living beings and which features works by Jean Arp, Kandinsky, or Klee (CaixaForum Barcelona September 28, then to those in Madrid and Zaragoza); o Interior Berlanga (opens at CaixaForum Valencia on February 29 and will later be seen at Barcelona), which will reveal part of the filmmaker's unknown legacy, based on his personal archive, which includes 56 unpublished scripts, his correspondence the Blue Division or its poetry; The exhibition will also feature the director's essential erotic dimension.

During the presentation of the season, which comes under the motto “We believe in culture”, information was provided such as that this year the museums of the CaixaForum network (9 CaixaForums and the CosmoCaixa in Barcelona) have already brought together 3.5 million visitors (it is expected to reach 4.5 million by the end of the year), that the new CaixaForum Málaga confirms its opening for 2026 or that among the future projects with the Prado Museum (as revealed by its director, Miguel Falomir), there is a exhibition on art and botany and another on Rubens. The new headquarters in Valencia, inaugurated a year ago, has reached more than a million visitors, while CosmoCaixa is approaching a million today. The traveling exhibitions, which allow us to reach 57 cities in Spain and Portugal, and supply cultural samples to cities with a medium demographic profile, have added 3.5 million visitors. The free cultural and scientific audiovisual content platform CaixaForum + has reached more than one hundred thousand subscribers in its first year; It will soon arrive in Portugal, and will begin to have streaming content.

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