The president of the La Caixa Foundation, Isidro Fainé, and the mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, signed an agreement this Thursday to build a new CaixaForum in the Andalusian city, which they expect to open in 2026. The center will be located in Manuel Azaña square, one of the most visible entrances to the city, which connects with the key artery of Avenida de Andalucía. With it, Málaga will exponentially reinforce the successful commitment it has made in recent years to museums, which includes everything from the Picasso to a branch of the Pompidou Center.
For its part, with the construction of a CaixaForum in Malaga, the ”la Caixa” Foundation, the largest in Spain and one of the most important in the world, with a record budget this year of 538 million euros, will finally have its cultural flagship in the six main Spanish capitals by volume of population: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza and Malaga, the sixth capital of Spain by population, but the fifth adding the metropolitan area, with more than one million inhabitants.
It will be his tenth CaixaForum, a cultural and scientific dissemination space that includes exhibitions, music, conferences and debates, social days, and educational and family workshops. A network of facilities for whose large exhibitions the Fundació la Caixa has signed alliances with some of the world's great museums and cultural centers, such as the British Museum, the Pompidou, the Cinémathèque française or the Prado.
The mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, has assessed the decision as "a great step forward that places us at the level of Madrid, Barcelona and other large Spanish cities, a powerful initiative that reinforces, diversifies and completes our cultural offer. The CaixaForum in Málaga was one of our dreams and I am deeply grateful to Isidro Fainé for his decision and his encouragement for it to be built on such a strategic plot ».
The president of the "la Caixa" Foundation assures that "with the signing of this agreement we make clear our involvement with the city of Malaga, whose firm commitment to culture is linked to our values of working to improve the well-being and progress of people . Culture is a powerful tool that contributes to cohesion and social integration and our goal is to facilitate access to it."
In the cultural field, the "la Caixa" Foundation has been present in Málaga for 30 years, with the programming, in 1993, of its Science Tent. Since then the entity has organized more than fifty exhibitions in the city. There they have seen shows ranging from Sebastião Salgado and Leonardo da Vinci to the immersive musical experience Symphony under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel.
