Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky and Barceló at the Fundación Bancaja

The Fundación Bancaja is an exhibition hall on Plaça de Tetuan, next to the Glorieta gardens, right in the centre. It is not a museum with a permanent collection you can drop into at any time. It works in seasons, shows open and close, and this one closes on 5 September. If it is on your list, it is not something you can postpone.

What is on show

The exhibition brings together work by more than fifty artists, tracing how art changed over time, with Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky and Barceló among the names included. General admission is 10 €, reduced admission 5 €. Which specific works hang in which room, the opening hours and the weekly closing day are not given here. Check them on the official page, particularly if you are on a tight schedule. Spanish exhibition halls very often close one day a week and shut earlier on Sundays.

Getting there, and when to go

It is central enough to reach on foot from anywhere in the old town. In September the middle of the day is still heavy in València, and an air-conditioned gallery is exactly the right use of those hours: you come back out when the sun has stopped punishing. Immediately outside is the Glorieta, one of the shadiest gardens in the centre, and the Paseo de la Alameda across the old riverbed.

Making an afternoon of it

A short walk away, crossing the riverbed by the Torres de Serranos, is the Museum of Fine Arts, which is free and holds a serious old-master collection. To plan the rest, see the best museums in València and the free ones, of which there are more than most visitors realise.