Museums in Madrid

If you are an art lover visiting Madrid you shouldn't go the three most popular museums. MNCARS, Prado Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.

The three museums are very close to each other, located in the Paseo del Prado you can walk. In my opinion, the first that you should go is the Sofia Museum. Then, the Prado Museum, you’ll spend all the morning in both Museum.

In the noon, very close to the Prado Museum you could find diferents kinds of restaurants. After take the lunch you could visit the Thyssen Museum.

Reina Sofia Museum.

 

The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain's two greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Certainly the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's painting Guernica. The Reina Sofía also has fine collections of the works of Juan Gris, Joan Miró, Julio González, Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tàpies, Pablo Gargallo, Pablo Serrano, Lucio Muñoz, Luis Gordillo, Jorge Oteiza, José Gutiérrez Solana and many other significant artists.

Foreign artists are few, but there are works by Robert Delaunay, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Jacques Lipchitz, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Max Ernst, Richard Serra, Bruce Neuman, Clyford Still, cubist still lifes by Georges Braque and a large work by Francis Bacon.

 

Rates of MNCARS			Schedule
General admission Joint visit collections and temporary exhibitions	€ 6.00		Monday to Saturday	10:00 to 21:00 h
Entry only for temporary exhibitions	€ 3.00		Sunday:	10:00 to 14:30 h
Free admission days Monday to Friday from 19.00 to 21.00 Saturday from 14.30 to 21.00 Sunday 10.00 to 14.30			Tuesday: Closed

More info in: http://www.museoreinasofia.es/index_en.html

Prado Museum

 
The Prado Museum is a museum and art gallery located in Madrid, the capital of Spain. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture, it also contains important collections of other types of works. A new, recently opened wing enlarged the display area by about 400 paintings, and it is currently used mainly for temporary expositions. El Prado is one of the most visited sites in the world, and it is considered to be among the greatest museums of art.

The collection currently comprises around 7,600 paintings, 1,000 sculptures, 4,800 prints and 8,200 drawings, in addition to a large number of works of art and historic documents. By 2012 the Museum will be displaying about 1300 works in the main buildings, while around 3,100 works are on temporary loan to various museums and official institutions. The remainder are in storage.

The best known work on display at the museum is Las Meninas by Velázquez. Velázquez not only provided the Prado with his own works, but his keen eye and sensibility was also responsible for bringing much of the museum's fine collection of Italian masters to Spain.

Rates of Prado Museum			Schedule
General Admission	7€		From Tuesday to Sunday: 9.00 - 20. 00 h	Closed Every Monday (including holidays)
50% discount with student card	3’5€		Box Office Hours. 9.00 - 19.30 h. Access to the Museum until 30 minutes before closing (the exhibition of the rooms 10 minutes before closing)
General Admission + copy of the Guide Prado, €	19.50€

More info in: http://www.museodelprado.es/en/

Thyssen Museum.

 

The Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, is the second largest private collection in the world after the British Royal Collection, includes Impressionists, Expressionists, and European and American paintings from the second half of the 20th century, with over 1,600 paintings. 

 

Rates of Thyssen Museum			Shedule
General admission	8€		From Tuesday to Sunday	10.00 to 19.00.
			Closed Mondays.
			The ticket office closes at 18.30.

More info in:  http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen/home