In which museum is Picasso's painting 'Guernica' housed?
Answer
Museo Reina Sofía
Answer
Museo Reina Sofía
In which museum is Picasso’s painting Guernica housed? Guernica is housed in Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía.
Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 after the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Republican government commissioned a monumental work for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exposition, and the attack gave Picasso the subject for an anti-war image.
The enormous black, white, and gray canvas shows a fractured scene of suffering, including a grieving mother, a fallen soldier, a wounded horse, a bull, and figures fleeing violence. Its monochrome appearance also evokes newspaper photographs and documentary images of wartime destruction.
After touring internationally, the painting was placed for safekeeping at New York’s Museum of Modern Art for several decades. It returned to Spain in 1981 and was eventually installed at the Museo Reina Sofía, where it remains one of the museum’s defining works. It is not housed at the Prado or the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026