Exhibitions in Madrid

Espacio Fundación Telefónica · Free

Over 120 objects, installations and interactive displays trace quantum physics from early 20th-century discoveries to lasers, semiconductors and quantum computing.

Museo del Traje · Free

A retrospective marking designer Teresa Helbig's 30-year career, tracing her craftsmanship through iconic dresses, fashion films and interviews.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional

Contemporary weaver Teresa Lanceta's textile works enter dialogue with the museum's Iberian collection in the Patio Ibérico galleries.

Museo de América · Free

An exceptional collection of lacquered wooden bateas from colonial Mexico, tracing production centres from Uruapan to Yucatán and Indigenous-Asian-European artistic exchange.

Museo del Prado

Over 100 works from 56 institutions reassess how Italian Trecento art reshaped Gothic painting, sculpture and textiles in the Spanish kingdoms.

Museo Reina Sofía

A major exhibition of Cuban-American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996), whose candy spills, paper stacks and light installations addressed loss, love and identity during the AIDS crisis.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional · Free

Scientific analysis techniques, from metallurgy to imaging, reveal how MAN conservators study and preserve archaeological materials, developed with CSIC's national metallurgical research centre.

Galería de las Colecciones Reales

Ninety-five oil paintings of Spain's Royal Sites commissioned by Ferdinand VII, by topographical landscape painter Fernando Brambila (1763–1834).

Espacio Fundación Telefónica · Free

The complete 83-image photographic series from Robert Frank's landmark 1958 project documenting inequality, consumerism and racial division in 1950s America.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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

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

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.

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.