Valencia’s excellent museum of modern art is housed in a vast, uncompromisingly modern building, which has just had a huge extension added to it. The centrepiece of the permanent collection, which rotates regularly, is an extensive array of sculpture by Julio Gonzalez, the Catalan artist who collaborated with Picasso in the 1930s.

The IVAM also has the most important public collection of the works of the Valencian painter Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench. It comprises a hundred paintings and over six hundred drawings. There have also been numerous recent additions of work by artists such as Jacques Lipchitz, Eduardo Chillida, Tony Smith, Esteban Vicente, Georg Baselitz, Lucebert, Manolo Valdés and Markus Lüpertz.