Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

This guide to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid follows Picasso's Guernica from its debut in 1937, painted days after the bombing of the Basque town it's named for, through decades of exile at MoMA in New York under conditions Picasso himself set for its return. You'll hear about the September 1981 flight that finally brought the crated canvas home, and the extraordinary security that met it at a Madrid gallery. Stand close enough today to see the scale of it, the screaming horse, the shattered figures.