Baron Thyssen, the heir to a fabulous collection of paintings, donated it to the Spanish State which then housed it in a neo-Classical palace renovated by Rafael Moneo. The collection is an opportunity to explore Western art from the late 12C to the present day, from Duccio di Buoninsegna to Roy Lichtenstein, via Holbein, Carpaccio, Cranach, Patinir, Rubens, Gainsborough, Courbet, Gauguin, Cézanne and Magritte, and many others! A contemporary wing houses the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection.