The best museums in Madrid
The top 3 according to 27 votes from people: Reina Sofía Museum · Prado Museum · National Archaeological Museum. (Updated Oct 16, 2024.)
The Golden Triangle of Art and much more: house museums, private collections and the great archaeology museum, according to Visit Madrid and travel guides.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 10
-
1
Reina Sofía Museum
20th- and 21st-century art with Guernica; Madrid's second most visited museum.
-
2
Prado Museum
One of the world's great art museums: Velázquez, Goya, Bosch and Titian.
-
3
National Archaeological Museum
From prehistory to the 19th century, home to the Lady of Elche.
-
4
Lázaro Galdiano Museum
Collection of 12,000 artworks and objects in the Parque Florido mansion.
-
5
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
More than 400 years of Spanish painting on Calle de Alcalá, with Goya and Zurbarán.
-
6
CaixaForum Madrid
Herzog & de Meuron's cultural centre with Patrick Blanc's vertical garden.
-
7
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Eight centuries of European painting, from the Renaissance to Pop Art.
-
8
Sorolla Museum
Joaquín Sorolla's house and studio in Chamberí, with its Andalusian garden.
-
9
Cerralbo Museum
19th-century aristocratic palace preserved with its original decoration.
-
10
Museum of Romanticism
A 19th-century Madrid house with period furniture and painting.
Candidates
They don't make it into the top 10… yet. Vote for them to move them up.
-
11
Museum of the Americas
Pre-Columbian and colonial collections, including the Mayan Madrid Codex.
-
12
Naval Museum
History of the Spanish Navy, with Juan de la Cosa's world map of 1500.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
Is something missing?
Comments (2)
El Lázaro Galdiano y el Cerralbo, los dos grandes desconocidos de Madrid.
El Museo Sorolla es una joya, la casa del pintor con su jardín.