Madrid: a visit to the Velázquez Tech Museum

Madrid is an open city, a city that is in fashion and that always tries to reinvent itself when it comes to offering its visitors a wide range of recreational-cultural activities with which to try to seduce their imagination, adapting its old symbols to the superb possibilities that offered by new technologies.

Among those old symbols inescapably associated with a city like Madrid, there is undoubtedly the great painter of the Court of King Felipe IV, Diego Velázquez, as well as one of his masterpieces and perhaps the most popular among the millions of visitors who come annually. to our city: Las Meninas.

The Meninas, who are not, but the infantas, daughters of the aforementioned king, Felipe IV, there is no doubt that they constitute, like the Osa and the Madroño, one of the most universal symbols of Madrid and as such, they have been attracting attention for years. of our visitors, as an influential and demanding attraction, forming an artistic circuit through the most central and emblematic streets of the city, in an effort to create routes of interest, which can also serve as a novel attraction.

Now and starting from that base, under the enormous possibilities offered by new technologies, the Velázquez Tech Museum, located in the popular Atocha street, a few meters from the Plaza de Benavente and the Calderón Theater, offers an interactive show, which from then, novel and different, it is worth knowing.

Through its eight rooms, the viewer can witness part of that artistic magic that has always accompanied the incredible work of the painter, enjoying the possibilities implicit in the use of video mappings, holograms and four-dimensional representations, which will make your visit a delicious experience.

Experience, which begins slowly, in the first room, where a remarkable selection of perhaps less well-known reproductions of the painter is exhibited, which stand out for their foray into the fabulous world of classical mythology, where the beauty and sensuality of the great myths They could be considered as the eroticism and the taste for voluptuousness that have always accompanied, in an exclusive and eminently private way, kings and nobles throughout the ages.

Overcome this small emotional shock, the real virtual adventure begins next, with a large group of spectacular interactive Meninas that, to the beat of suggestive music that combines baroque chords with contemporary rhythms, we are introduced to a timeless journey, where past, Present and future seem to follow a metaphorical and delusional Fibonacci chain of events.

Events that are not, but archetypes and calls for attention to the great sociological handicaps that have affected and continue to affect society: wars, natural resources, family, food, diversity, the environment and a great etcetera .

In short, an eminently sensory excursion, where Art, new technologies and vindication will surely not leave you indifferent.

Finally, and given that Las Meninas is, although it may not seem so a priori, one of the painter's most enigmatic paintings and that seems to hide the most secrets, I challenge you to discover one of them for yourself: take a photograph of the painting - easy to obtain, for example, if you enter the Prado Museum page- and try to reproduce, based on the figures that make it up, starting with the painter himself, located on his left and ending with the third Menina on the right.

If you locate the unmistakable shape of the constellation called Corona Borealis, you will have discovered one of the many secrets that this masterpiece hides, as for the rest, I leave it to his imagination.

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