Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo

What Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo does

The Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) is a public contemporary art museum operated by the Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deporte of the Community of Madrid, located at Avda. Constitución 23, Móstoles, Madrid. It is the only public museum in the Autonomous Community of Madrid exclusively dedicated to contemporary art. The institution houses two significant collections — the CA2M Collection (originating from the Contemporary Art Collection of the Autonomous Community of Madrid established in 1983) and the ARCO Foundation Collection (originating in 1987), both expanded during the 1990s and formally combined under the museum in 2014. Tania Pardo serves as director, appointed through a formal selective process published in December 2023 in the Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid.

CA2M operates a portfolio centered on collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting contemporary art. Core offerings include rotating exhibitions of national and international artists (e.g., Dorothy Iannone, Antonio Ballester Moreno, Adrian Schindler), education and public programs including guided tours, workshops, and an Artists in Residence program, and community outreach initiatives such as the Cosmorama prison arts program in collaboration with NGO Solidarios para el Desarrollo and Fundación Banco Sabadell. Supporting infrastructure includes a specialized contemporary art library, museum publications, café and terrace facilities. The museum's digital platform is built on Drupal CMS with text-to-speech functionality, WCAG AA accessibility compliance, and free WiFi throughout the premises. Distribution is direct-to-consumer exclusively through on-site access.

CA2M operates as a fully government-funded public institution with no commercial revenue streams; all funding flows from the regional government's budget allocations. Admission and all programming are free, with no paid tiers or commercial products. The institution serves general public visitors, educational institutions (with Wednesday morning group tours and curriculum-aligned programs), and contemporary artists and curators (through residency programs and exhibition opportunities). Marketing is conducted through the museum's official website, multiple social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Issuu), email newsletters, and press releases, with programming promoted through community partnerships and collaborative projects with peer cultural institutions including La Casa Encendida, Matadero Madrid, MACBA, and Centre d'art Le Lait.

Name

Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo

Legal name

Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo

Website

https://ca2m.org

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) is a public contemporary art museum operated by the Community of Madrid and the only regional institution dedicated exclusively to contemporary art. It houses the CA2M and ARCO Foundation collections and offers free exhibitions, educational programs, and community outreach to the general public, schools, and artists.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Art Museum

NAICS

Museums (712110), Museums (71211)

akta.pro primary industry

Art Galleries & Exhibition Spaces (Commercial & Nonprofit) (THAJADAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Museums & Heritage Sites (History, Science, Specialty) (BPAGAHAA), Cultural Heritage Institutions (Archives, Historic Houses, Monuments Foundations) (THAJADAI)

Keywords

• Contemporary art museum
• Art exhibitions
• Public art collections
• Art education programs
• Artist residencies

Headquarters

HQ city

Móstoles

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Funding: As a public museum of the Community of Madrid, the museum operates entirely on government funding. Admission and all activities are free for visitors, funded through public budget allocations from the regional government's Culture, Tourism and Sports department.

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Core offering

The Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) is a public contemporary art museum operated by the Community of Madrid. It houses and exhibits the CA2M Collection (Contemporary Art Collection of the Autonomous Community of Madrid) and the ARCO Foundation Collection, and delivers rotating exhibitions, educational programs, guided tours, artist residencies, and community outreach initiatives such as the Cosmorama prison arts program. All museum access and activities are free.

Product overview

The Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) is a public contemporary art museum operated by the Community of Madrid. It offers a unified portfolio centered on its core mission: collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting contemporary art. The institution comprises its permanent Collection (CA2M Collection and ARCO Foundation Collection), rotating Exhibitions featuring national and international contemporary artists, and comprehensive Education & Public Programs including guided tours, workshops, artist residencies, and community outreach initiatives like the Cosmorama prison arts program. Supporting services include a specialized library, publications, café, and terrace facilities. All museum activities and admission are free.

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Products and services

• Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) A contemporary art museum of the Community of Madrid, the only museum in the region exclusively dedicated to contemporary art. Open Tuesday to Sunday 11:00-21:00, with free admission to the general public.
• CA2M Collection & ARCO Foundation Collection Permanent collections housed by the museum, comprising the Contemporary Art Collection of the Autonomous Community of Madrid (CA2M Collection) and the ARCO Foundation Collection, with origins in the 1980s. Both collections were combined in 2014.
• Exhibitions Program Rotating temporary exhibitions featuring national and international contemporary artists, including solo shows (e.g., Dorothy Iannone: Over and Over Again, Antonio Ballester Moreno: Sky and Earth, Adrian Schindler) and themed displays drawn from the collections.
• Education and Public Programs Educational activities including guided tours, workshops, artist talks, performative visits, and family programs, offered free to the public, schools, and community groups.
• Artists in Residence Program A joint program with La Casa Encendida supporting artistic creation and research centered on body and performance practices, with residencies of up to four weeks in June-July.
• Cosmorama Program Art and cultural program in collaboration with NGO Solidarios para el Desarrollo that brings drawing contests, courses, workshops, and talks to correctional facilities including Centro Penitenciario Madrid V - Soto del Real.
• Specialized Library A specialized library in contemporary art open Tuesday to Friday from 16:00-21:00, available to the public for consultation and research.
• Museum Publications Museum publications documenting exhibitions, artists, and collections, including exhibition catalogs and artist books.

Quantifiable outcome

• Free admission to all museum activities and exhibitions
• +1 more outcomes

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• La Casa EncendidacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Collaborative partnership for the Artists in Residence program supporting artistic creation and research centered on body and performance practices. The program is structured in dialogue with both institutions' year-round activities and prioritizes projects connecting with their approaches to research, experimentation and artistic production.
• Asociación teta y tetacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Collaboration for the 'Quererse libre: Artes y reclusión' (Freeing oneself: Arts and incarceration) conference, examining the role of literature and art in prisons, with a focus on women in incarceration.
• Centre d'art Le LaitmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Co-production partner for Adrian Schindler's exhibition 'Tetuan, Tetuán, تطوان', a film trilogy produced between 2018 and 2025 exploring Spain's colonial past in Morocco.
• MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Collaborating institution for the Adrian Schindler exhibition 'Tetuan, Tetuán, تطوان', supporting the project through institutional partnership.
• Matadero MadridmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Collaborating institution for the Adrian Schindler exhibition, part of Madrid's network of cultural institutions supporting contemporary art.
• ONG Solidarios para el DesarrollocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership for the Cosmorama program, which develops educational activities including drawing contests, courses, workshops and talks in prisons, converting them into spaces for experimentation and shared knowledge generation from collective practice and experience.
• Fundación Banco SabadellmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Financial and strategic support for the Cosmorama program, which brings cultural and artistic activities to the Centro Penitenciario Madrid V - Soto del Real prison.
• Fundación ARCOcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Partnership to house and present the ARCO Foundation Collection alongside the CA2M Collection. Both collections have been combined since 2014, with the ARCO Foundation Collection adding an international dimension to acquisitions through the art fair.
• Fundación ARCO/IFEMAmajorGTM or Marketing PartnerFoundation supporting the Museo CA2M through institutional collaboration, with the animated video series exhibition presented with their support.
• Murray Branding & DesignminorOthersDesigned the museum's interior signage system, creating new wayfinding that communicates social distance norms clearly through a system spanning all circulation spaces.
• Studio AnimalminorOthersDesigned the museum's 'Entre' signage expansion, conceived as a vertical and volumetric expansion that is lightweight and reversible, inviting naturalization of pandemic-era affects.

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Direct peers

• Artium — Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo: Vitoria-Gasteiz's public contemporary art museum. Direct peer because it operates as a regional-government-funded contemporary art institution with a permanent collection, rotating exhibitions, and educational programming structurally analogous to CA2M.
• Centro Botín: Santander-based contemporary art and cultural center operated by Fundación Botín. Direct peer because of its contemporary art exhibition programming, education mission, and comparable position as a publicly accessible cultural venue in a non-capital Spanish city.
• Centre d'art Le Lait: Albi, France-based contemporary art center. Direct peer because of its documented co-production partnership with CA2M on Adrian Schindler's film trilogy exhibition, placing it within CA2M's active international curatorial network.
• La Casa Encendida: Montemadrid Foundation's contemporary culture center in central Madrid offering exhibitions, cinema, and education. Direct peer because of its contemporary art programming in the same city and its formal co-production partnership with CA2M on the Artists in Residence program.
• IVAM — Institut Valencià d'Art Modern: Valencia's public contemporary art museum and center. Direct peer because of similar regional-government ownership, comparable contemporary art collection, and parallel exhibition/education mission in the Spanish public museum system.
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía: Spain's flagship contemporary and 20th-century art museum in central Madrid. Direct peer because it operates in the same metropolitan area with a comparable contemporary art mandate, exhibition program, and public-institution funding model.
• Azkuna Zentroa — Alhóndiga Bilbao: Bilbao's municipal center for contemporary culture, cinema, and exhibitions. Direct peer because it operates as a publicly funded multi-disciplinary contemporary arts venue with an exhibition and education program structurally similar to CA2M's.
• MUSAC — Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León: León-based public contemporary art museum with a collection and programming model very close to CA2M's. Direct peer because CA2M's director Tania Pardo previously served as curator there, and both operate as regional-government-funded contemporary art institutions.
• Matadero Madrid: Madrid's municipal contemporary creation center covering visual arts, performance, cinema, and design. Direct peer because it is a publicly funded contemporary arts venue in Madrid with overlapping exhibition and residency programming — and a documented collaborating partner of CA2M.
• MACBA — Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona: Barcelona's public contemporary art museum. Direct peer because of parallel public-institution governance, comparable permanent collection focus on contemporary art, and documented co-production collaboration with CA2M on the Adrian Schindler exhibition.

Market position

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Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/CA2MCentrodeArteDosdeMayo
• Facebookfacebook.com/CA2MMadrid
• Instagraminstagram.com/ca2mmadrid
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/centro-de-arte-dos-de-mayo

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