Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía will expand into northern Spain after taking over control of the José María Lafuente Archive in Santander. The collection, started by the Santander-based industrialist in the 1980s, contains around 120,000 documents—drawings, books, magazines, catalogues, pamphlets, prints, letters, and pictures—covering the history of 20th-century art in Europe, Latin America and the United States, with a particular emphasis on Spain.
The Reina Sofía will assume the technical direction, research management, preservation and dissemination of the archive for a period of ten years, with the option to fully acquire the collection down the road.
