Exhibitions in Madrid

CaixaForum Madrid

Assyrian antiquities from the British Museum trace the life and legacy of Ashurbanipal, the 7th-century BCE king of Assyria: warrior, scholar and empire-builder.

Museo de América · Free

A photographic project on the colonial roots of discrimination against Indigenous trans women in the Americas, extended through 22 November after strong public interest.

Museo del Prado

Traces the rise and fall of José Aparicio's The Year of the Famine in Madrid (1818), once the Prado's most admired painting, now largely forgotten.

Museo de América · Free

Portraits by Argentine artist Eulogia Merle giving presence to Latin American migrant women working as live-in domestic carers in Spain and Argentina.

Museo de Historia de Madrid · Free

Refotography exhibition pairing 40 historical and present-day photographs of the same Madrid street corners, on show in the Patio Dorado.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional · Free

Medieval-era artifacts and images from the royal court of Toledo, organised with Castilla-La Mancha's regional museums, in the free Sala de Novedades Arqueológicas.

Galería de las Colecciones Reales

Fine clocks acquired by Ferdinand VII and Isabella II, tracing technical innovation and changing taste in 19th-century clockmaking.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional

A Roman-era bronze sculptural group recovered by Spain's National Police, displayed intact with its original bases in the Hispania Romana galleries.

Palacio de Cristal · Free

A printed tarp wrapping the Palacio de Cristal's glass facade during restoration, inspired by pre-Columbian Paracas funerary textile bundles.