# The best museums in Madrid

The Golden Triangle of Art and much more: house museums, private collections and the great archaeology museum, according to Visit Madrid and travel guides.

- 27 votes · 12 items
- Oct 16, 2024 · maletas_lenta
- https://even.best/en/l/371/the-best-museums-in-madrid

## Top 10

1. **Reina Sofía Museum** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 20th- and 21st-century art with Guernica; Madrid's second most visited museum. <https://www.museoreinasofia.es/>
2. **Prado Museum** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — One of the world's great art museums: Velázquez, Goya, Bosch and Titian. <https://www.museodelprado.es/>
3. **National Archaeological Museum** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — From prehistory to the 19th century, home to the Lady of Elche. <https://www.man.es/>
4. **Lázaro Galdiano Museum** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Collection of 12,000 artworks and objects in the Parque Florido mansion.
5. **Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — More than 400 years of Spanish painting on Calle de Alcalá, with Goya and Zurbarán.
6. **CaixaForum Madrid** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Herzog & de Meuron's cultural centre with Patrick Blanc's vertical garden.
7. **Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Eight centuries of European painting, from the Renaissance to Pop Art. <https://www.museothyssen.org/>
8. **Sorolla Museum** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Joaquín Sorolla's house and studio in Chamberí, with its Andalusian garden.
9. **Cerralbo Museum** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 19th-century aristocratic palace preserved with its original decoration.
10. **Museum of Romanticism** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A 19th-century Madrid house with period furniture and painting.
11. **Museum of the Americas** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Pre-Columbian and colonial collections, including the Mayan Madrid Codex.
12. **Naval Museum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — History of the Spanish Navy, with Juan de la Cosa's world map of 1500.

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