EL PAÍS celebrates its 40th anniversary with an exhibition at the Palacio de Cibeles

EL PAÍS is turning 40 and will be celebrating the milestone birthday with a multisensory, innovative and high-tech exhibition which looks back the big events in Spain and around the world over the past four decades. Visitors will be taken on a globe-trotting journey full of stories, people, interaction and creativity. The exhibition is one of the main events to mark the anniversary and the newspaper is inviting its readers-viewers to join the global conversation.

The exhibition, unique in terms of both content and presentation and covering over 600 square meters, will accompany visitors through the events that have shaped and transformed society.The highly visual and sensory show at Madrid’s Palacio de Cibeles will also host the presentation of the Ortega y Gasset Awards during a gala dinner on May 5.

The exhibition features more than 350 iconic images, 120 historic front pages (40 national, 40 international and 40 covers of the weekly supplement El País Semanal), 15 cutting-edge screens (plasma, LED, interactivity and projection) and seven spaces devoted to the past four decades and to the decades ahead. This is a look at at the life and times of a print newspaper, born at the dawn of democracy in Spain, that has become a media outlet that speaks to people worldwide thanks to its ambitious digital transformation. And readers will be able to experience the first ever report in virtual reality: a journey to Fukushima five years after the nuclear disaster.

The exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of EL PAÍS has been conceived as a tribute to the paper’s  readers – who’ll be rewarded with the wit and humor of the newspaper’s current cartoonists: Peridis, Forges and El Roto.

OPENING TIMES

Monday: From 10.00 to 20.00

Tuesday:  From 10.00 to 20.00

Wednesday: From 10.00 to 12.30 and from 17.00 to 20.00

Thursday: From 10.00 to 15.30

Friday:  From 10.00 to 20.00

Saturday: From 10.00 to 00.00.

Sunday:  From 10.00 to 20.00

Further information available at:  aniversario.elpais.com