Art Modern Institute Museum of Valencia

The gallery itself was nice and it was good to see some Spanish artists represented. However, our experience was ruined by the security guards, who were so excessive in their monitoring that it felt oppressive and threatening, so we didn’t stay as long as we would have otherwise. They followed us around in each gallery, as though we were being suspected of stealing in a shop. Some even glared at us. They stood in doorways and in front of artworks in a threatening manner. At one point I was yelled at for taking a three second video (absolutely fine to have a no video policy but a sign saying this or a polite instruction at reception would have been much better than aggressive yelling in Spanish when I obviously didn’t understand what was being said). The „security“ high visibility uniforms didn’t help - why not follow the lead of other galleries and just have staff members or plain clothed security. We just visited the Prado and Reina Sofia and the security in these huge international galleries was much less oppressive.