Activities for the International Women's Day

Conference: Semblanzas femeninas. Recordando a la mujer de la antigua Grecia

• Friday 6th of March
• At 18:00
• In Spanish

Conference with María Isabel Rodríguez López, doctor in Geography and History and teacher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Completense University of Madrid).

Exhibition "Your Naked Print" works by Luis Cañizares

• From the 6th to the 29th of March
• Apostolate room

Small display of Luis Cañizares' artistic projetc: "Your Naked Print". Exhibiton within the plan Museos+Sociales (More Social Museums) of the Culture and Sports Ministry, with the collaboration of the FECMA (Spanish Federation Against Breast Cancer).

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Invited work Madonna with child by Blasco de Grañen (1422- 1459)

• From the 4th of March to the 31st of May
• Library room

For International Women's Day, the Museum exhibits this work by the Aragonese painter Blasco de Grañen. The painting, loaned by the Museo Goya- Coleccion Ibercaja, connects with the Spanish-Flemish works kept at the Museum, the oldest in our collections.

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Installation and social media presence "Palabra de mujer" (Women's word)

• From the 3rd to the 8th of March

The gardens and courtyard will once again be dressed in purple. Taking into account the theme for this year International Women's Day, "each for equal", through the week we will give poems and texts written by women who worked towards this equality.

Our public can take a selfie and shared with the hashtag #EachforEqual in front of the panel put in the garden for that purpose.

Alternate visit: femenine images at the Museum

• From the 3rd to the 8th of March

Visit the Museum and look for the purple placards. With these texts we try to give visibility not only to the femenine images in our paintings, but also to the realities behind them: women's work, sorority, womens through woman's eyes or through men's eyes, etc.

Special edition of the book club

• Reading Memorias de un solteron by Emilia Pardo Bazán
• 5th of March and 2nd of April
• Completed group

For International Women's Day we read one of the main Spanish female writers: Pardo Bazan. With this book we will consider the situation of women in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century.