Begoña Torres
Begoña Torres González holds a PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid (1993) and is a member of the Faculty of Museum Curators. She has received the Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award, the Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award, and the Marqués de Lozoya Cultural Research Award. From 1997 to 2009, she was the director of the National Museum of Romanticism and oversaw its reopening. She served as Deputy Director General for the Promotion of Fine Arts at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport from 2010 to 2010 and as Deputy Director General for the Registration and Documentation of Historical Heritage in 2020. She was also the director of Tabacalera, Madrid, from 2010 to 2020. Since May 2020, she has been the Managing Director of the Lázaro Galdiano Foundation.
Throughout her career, she has specialized in museology, museography, heritage, and 19th-century art and contemporary visual arts. She has authored numerous articles and monographs, and has directed countless conferences, presentations, lectures, and journals, as well as curating over 40 exhibitions.
She was part of the team that drafted the Strategy for the Visual Arts and has served on the boards of various museums (MACBA, ARTIUM, MARCO, IVAM, etc.) and cultural institutions, as well as the European Union's Committee for the Mobility of Artists and the Board for the Classification, Valuation, and Export of Spanish Historical Heritage Assets (from 2010 to the present).
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