All our Museums & art guides for Madrid, in one place.
A century old livestock market and abattoir on the Manzanares turned into theatre, galleries, a design centre and a food hall, and why Arganzuela is worth the walk south of the centre.
Picasso's Guernica, the Dalí and Miró rooms, and how the Reina Sofía fits with its two more famous neighbours: what to see, how to time it, and why it easily deserves a morning of its own.
Madrid's big museums open free for the last hours of the day. What that period is really like, which museums offer it, how early to arrive, and when paying is the better decision.
A plan for one of the great museums: the works most people come for, how to structure two or three hours instead of a whole day, when it is quietest, and what to skip without regret.
A painter's house with its garden intact, and a small chapel with a ceiling Goya painted himself. Both are quiet, both are quick, and one is free.
How to do the Prado, the Reina Sofía and the Thyssen without burning out: what to see, when to go, how the free hours work and how to plan the perfect art day in Madrid.