Crononautas

See the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum like never before with your smartphone or tablet. A mystery adventure mixing fiction and reality that invites you to travel through time in the company of works of art, and learn curious facts about the Palace of Villahermosa and some of the people and events that have marked its history. You can hunt for the Anacronópete, the time machine imagined by Enrique Gaspar in 1887 for what was Spain’s first ever science fiction novel. But to find it you must first uncover the secrets concealed in the museum and its paintings.

The app includes decision-making tasks and other challenges that make you, the user, the hero of the adventure. Choose from a set of cards to trace out your own science fiction plotline within the museum.

The application is the result of a collaboration between the BBVA Foundation and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. “The Program of Applications, Digital Publications and Educational Knowledge“ is a vehicle for the development of multimedia publications that offer the public new experiences, virtual and live, in connection with works and artists from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum collections, along with a range of educational features and information and communication channels between the museum and its visitors.

This App has been available at the different market places until December 2019.

You can find further information on the publications and projects developed in the frame of this collaboration here.