Museo ABC is a museum in

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, dedicated to

drawing Drawing is a Visual arts, visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, some ...

and

illustration An illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, designed for integration in print and digitally published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, vi ...

. The museum is housed in a converted brewery. The privately funded museum was established in 2010. Its

collection Collection or Collections may refer to: Computing * Collection (abstract data type), the abstract concept of collections in computer science * Collection (linking), the act of linkage editing in computing * Garbage collection (computing), autom ...

includes over 200,000 items from the Spanish daily newspaper

ABC ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Broadcasting * Aliw Broadcasting Corporation, Philippine broadcast company * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial American ...

, which began collecting examples of drawing and graphic illustration in 1891.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Museo ABC 2010 establishments in Spain Art museums and galleries established in 2010 Art museums and galleries in Madrid Drawing Illustration