All our Madrid guides tagged museums.
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 your art day.
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.
The most approachable of the big three: a private collection from early Italian panels to pop art, covering the periods the Prado and Reina Sofia skip.
Madrid's big museums open free in the last hours of the day. What that is like, which museums offer it, how early to arrive, and when paying is better.
A plan for one of the great museums: the works most people come for, how to spend two or three hours, when it is quietest, and what to skip.