Virtual Visits

Ines Powell returns to walk us through the newly re-opened Hispanic Society of America, a museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain and Portugal and their former colonies in Latin America, the Philippines and Portuguese India. Founded in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington, the institution remains at its original location in a 1908 Beaux Arts building on Audubon Terrace (at 155th Street and Broadway) in the lower Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. The museum contains more than 18,000 works in every medium, ranging from prehistoric times to the 20th century.

There are important paintings by Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, El Greco and Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, among others, as well as sculpture and architectural elements, furniture and metalwork, ceramics and textiles.

Extensive renovations, roughly doubling the museum's size, began on January 1, 2017, and the museum remained closed until this fall.