Fundación Juan March
| Founded | November 4, 1955 |
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| Founder | Juan March Ordinas |
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Area served
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Spain |
| Method | Endowment |
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Key people
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Juan March Delgado (president), Javier Gomá (director) |
The Fundación Juan March is a foundation established in 1955 by Juan March Ordinas, who was Spain's richest man. The Foundation produces exhibitions as well as concert and lecture series. Its headquarters in Madrid houses a library devoted to contemporary Spanish music and theater. It owns and operates the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, in Cuenca, and the Museu Fundación Juan March, in Palma. Its Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales), which has granted nearly one hundred doctoral degrees to Spanish students, is currently incorporated within the Instituto mixto Carlos III/Juan March de Ciencias Sociales at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid.
The Madrid headquarters was inaugurated in 1975. The building was designed by José Luis Picardo Castellón and features contrasting bands of marble and glass. Outside there are several sculptures. Inside there is a concert hall for chamber music (with 283 seats) and a hall for lectures (114 seats), space for exhibitions and a research library.
Roughly about 125 concerts, 110 conferences and 4 exhibitions are produced each year.. The Fundación streams many of its cultural events via Canal March . Concerts on Wednesdays are regularly broadcast by Radio Clásica, for example, a series on the theme of synesthesia (Sinestesia. Escuchar los colores, ver la música) performed in 2016.Catalunya Mùsica also broadcasts the concerts on Saturdays.
The Fundación's research library specialises in contemporary Spanish Theatre and Music, Illusionism and Curatorial Studies. Their online library is made up of 10 portals broken down into thematic knowledge areas, with a catalogue of over 180,000 records, including monographs, sheet music, periodicals, photographs, posters and sketches, as well as original manuscript documents. The Fundación also maintains three personal libraries – those of Julio Cortázar,, the painter Fernando Zóbel and academic Francisco Ruiz Ramón. It also hosts around 15 personal archives of composers and playwrights.
The Instituto mixto Carlos III/Juan March de Ciencias Sociales (IC3JM) is an institute that is jointly financed by the Fundación Juan March and the Carlos III University, and is based on the University's Getafe campus. The IC3JM has taken over the academic staff, activities, programmes and the library of the former Juan March Institute Centre for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (CEACS). The IC3JM is a leading centre of social science research (political science and sociology), as well as advanced postgraduate training. Its research focuses around comparative studies, with a rigorous methodological and theoretical foundation. Over 60 academics pass through the Institute each year, taking part in the various seminars, workshops and academic meetings. The IC3JM has a strong international profile and its members are senior academics from the world's leading universities.
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