Top 5 Must-See Activities in Madrid
These are the most famous Madrid tourist attractions & sight tours which sees thousands and millions of visitors each year:
Madrid Contemporary Art Galleries
Madrid is filled with amazing art galleries and museums. So if you’re an art lover, you’ll certainly have a great time in this Spanish capital city. If you wanted to dig a little deeper into the world of fine arts of Madrid, there are just so many places that are waiting for you to explore. Wondering where you should go? Check out this list of some of the most famous museums in Madrid for art lovers.
Top Madrid Art Galleries
Best Madrid Museums
Museo Nacional del Prado
The Prado Museum is definitely one of Madrid’s most famous museums and should be on top of your list of places to visit in the city. It houses a permanent collection of art pieces including Spanish paintings dating back from the 11th century. Paintings made...
1. 3 Hours Prado Museum Private Tour
Duration:
3 hours
- Visit Spain’s most important gallery, the 3 hour tour will allow you to see the essential works. The guide can pick you up from your hotel or also at the entrance of the gallery, next to the statue of Goya. The price of the tour includes the entrance ticket, which will also allow you to avoid the large queues.
During the tour not only... read more
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Caixa Forum Museum
The Caixa Forum museum is a museum that is dedicated to media arts and contemporary arts. This highly remarkable museum is housed in a contemporary designed building that’s famous for its vertical garden having more than 15,000 plants, designed by French botanist Patrick Blanc. The...
2. Prado Museum Fast Line Ticket and Madrid City Guided Walking Tour
Duration:
2 hours
- Get inmersed in Madrid city center walking through the old streets accompanied by our tour guide.
Have preferent access to the unique Prado Museum entrance, skiping the line with your included ticket to visit it on your own and enjoy plenty of time inside one of the most important galleries in the... read more
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Museo de Arte Thyssen-Bornemisza
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is known for its wealth of treasures and exquisite collections that consist of more than a thousand works of art. Most of these art pieces are private personal collection of Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, which dates back...
3. Museo Lázaro Galdiano Admission Ticket
Duration:
1 to 3 hou
- The Lázaro Galdiano Museum is the result of José Lázaro Galdiano's legacy to the Spanish State. This museum, one of the few Madrilenian ensembles of mansion and garden that have survived to this day, houses more than 3,000 works of art (selected from its collection of 12,600) exhibited and distributed on four floors of what was the private... read more
Museo del Romanticismo
The Museo del Romanticismo features the works of some famous artists, like Esquivel, Madrazo, Alenza, Goya and the Bécquer brothers. It includes jewellery pieces made of lava, ebonite, and human hair, as well as ceramics from the Sèvres and Sargadelos. There’s also an extraordinary collection of porcelain dolls, imperial and Isabelline furniture, 15 pianos, and the pistol that Larra used...
4. Madrid Walking Tour and The Royal Palace Skip the Line Tickets
Duration:
2 hours 10
- The tour starts at the door of the Fun and Tickets office at Calle Mayor, 43 with a guided tour on the way to the Royal Palace. The tour includes the visit of the Royal Palace of Madrid with official guides and Skip the... read more
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Museo Reina SofÃa
The Reina Sofia museum is another popular museum in Madrid when it comes to contemporary art and modern at. In fact, this museum is like the modern counterpart of the Prado Museum. The building is divided to two sections – new wing and the old...
5. National Archaeological Museum: Skip the Line Tickets and Private Guided Tour
Duration:
2 hours
- The National Archaeological Museum of Madrid brings together hundreds of works that have marked the time. Enjoy your private visit to discover the secrets of prehistory, Roman Hispania, protohistory or the Near East and the well-kept secrets of Egyptian mummies. A unique and original experience that will not leave you... read more
The Sorolla Museum
The Museo Sorolla houses a great collection of artwork by the famous painter, Joaquin Sorolla Bastida. Situated within the artist’s house and former art studio, the museum will take you to explore the painter’s world in a unique way, while getting a close up view of his personal belongings and paintings. The museum also showcases range of furniture and objects that used to be part of the...
6. Admission to the Recoletos Room of the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid
Duration:
45 to 90 m
- For more than three decades, Fundación MAPFRE has been one of the central points of Madrid's cultural agenda for its Plastic Arts and Photography exhibitions. Its program includes exhibitions of painting and sculpture focused on the great protagonists (Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Degas, Chagall, etc.) and the main movements of artistic modernity... read more
7. Prado Museum and Access to Self-Guided Tours in Madrid
Duration:
2 to 4 hou
- Get swept away into the spectacular history of Spanish and Flemish art at Spain's premier art museum.
See masterpieces by Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Titian, Rembrandt, El Greco, Bruegel, Van Dyck, Bosch, and more.
The museum is home to over 20,000 works of art, including around 7,500 paintings, 8,000 drawings, 4,800 prints, 1,000... read more
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8. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza Tickets & Self-Guided Tours in Madrid
Duration:
2 to 4 hou
- Located on the Art Walk, this wonderful museum holds a vast collection that traces the history of European painting from the Middle Ages through to the late 20th century. Italian primitives, the German Renaissance, 19th-century American art, Impressionism, German Expressionism, Russian Constructivism are the most widely represented schools and... read more
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9. Skip the line: Royal Palace of Madrid & 3 Self-Guided Audio Tours in Madrid
Duration:
1 to 2 hou
- Skip the frequently extensive line with this ticket and explore the biggest royal palace in the Western Europe.
The palace was built on the site of the old Alcázar for the Borbon dynasty.
For interior decoration, rich materials were used: spanish marble, stucco, mahogany doors and windows and important works of art, particularly... read more
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10. IKONO: a unique sensory and photographic experience
Duration:
1 hour
- IKONO is a unique space in Spain, a sensory experience where we want you to enjoy photography through our different spaces. In each of our rooms you will live a different sensory journey where you will live 'ikonic' experiences.
The experience lasts approximately 60 minutes and is a collection of different worlds where you will come into... read more
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11. Entrance to the Museum of Illusions Madrid
Duration:
1 hour
- Come and discover the mysterious world of illusions and experience what you thought was impossible. Fun and amazing tricks will teach you about vision, perception, the human brain and would surprise you by showing you that sometimes we see things differently than they really are.
You can enjoy this activity with your parents, your partner,... read more
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12. Royal Palace Skip-the-Line Ticket and Guided Tour in Madrid
Duration:
2 hours
- The official residence of the Spanish royal family is considered one of the most magnificent palaces in the world and the largest in Western Europe. The palace has thousands of rooms and interesting history as it resides where the Islamic fortress once stood, from the days when the Moor’s ran the city before returning to Christian... read more
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13. Reina SofÃa Museum Skip-the-Line Ticket with an Audio Tour
Duration:
3 hours
- The Museum houses one of the most impressive collections of 20th and 21st-century art, including paintings by Picasso, Dali, and Miro. You will see 3 permanent Collections of the Museum. The collections are organized by thematic halls and divided into three areas, each of which has its own name, referring to all the exhibits of a particular... read more
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Conclusion
Of all the museums stated above, the three most popular museums are the Prado Museum, Reina Sofia and Thyseen-Boenemisza Museum. The good news is that these museums are included in the Madrid Museum Pass. This means that if you’re going to book this ticket, you get to visit all three museums at a discounted price! If you have plans to visit other places in Madrid aside from these museums, your best bet is to book the Madrid hop on hop off bus, which is a convenient and comfortable way of exploring the city since you’ll be on board a bus.