Exhibitions in Madrid

Museo Lázaro GaldianoPast

Historic and contemporary jewels by Spanish house Suarez shown beside museum masterpieces by Sofonisba Anguissola, Claudio Coello, Luis Paret and the Madrazos.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Mapuche artist Seba Calfuqueos first European solo show, exploring the Cautin River through ceramics, video and embroidered paintings.

Museo Arqueológico NacionalFree

Rare 15th-century arms and armour from a sealed room at Monreal de Ariza castle (Zaragoza): helmets, crossbows, a breastplate, a bell and artillery chambers.

Matadero MadridFree

64 wordless posters by Ibero-American designers, each interpreting a single word through image alone, at the Casa del Lector for Madrid Gráfica 2026.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

The Mauritshuis and the Thyssen exchange 25 Dutch masterpieces, including Vermeers View of Delft, shown across the museums classical rooms.

Museo del Prado

The first Prado show on Ricardo de Madrazo: sketchbooks, drawings and watercolours, from copies after old masters to orientalism, city views and intimate scenes.

Matadero Madrid

A Medialab Matadero group show in Nave Una: unpublished, site-specific installations by five international artists probing how technology reshapes what counts as real.

Museo SorollaFree

The opening show of the new extension traces Sorolla's house from its 1905 design with architect Repullés to today, through paintings, drawings, plans, letters and photographs.

Museo Nacional de Artes DecorativasFree

Artist Miguel Ángel Blanco closes his trilogy on remarkable materials with amber in its natural state, powder drawings, book-boxes and artistic pieces from Spanish collections.

Fundación Juan MarchFree

How Spanish audiences encountered modern and contemporary art from the 1960s to today, told through exhibitions, institutions and countercultural spaces.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional

A single showcase on childhood from prehistory to antiquity, through children's remains, everyday objects and toys, with Nancy dolls dressed in four ancient periods.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Explores Salvador Dalis fascination with Sigmund Freud and their 1938 meeting, and how psychoanalysis shaped Dalis surrealist visual language.

Museo de Historia de MadridFree

The 40 winning photos of the museum's sixth photography contest, run with the Planetario de Madrid on the theme of Madrid's sky, in the Patio Dorado.

Museo del Prado

An itinerary of 30 works across the Villanueva building on civil engineering in the Prado's paintings, such as bridges, made with Fundación FHECOR.

Galería de las Colecciones Reales

Chests, caskets, coffers, trunks and cases from Patrimonio Nacional's royal palaces, monasteries and convents: centuries of furniture made to safeguard its contents.

Museo del Traje

A dialogue between Spanish fashion history and contemporary footwear: 35 showcases of the permanent collection paired with new shoe designs.

Museo Nacional de Artes DecorativasFree

Retrospective of jewellery designer Helena Rohner, Gold Medal for Fine Arts, spanning three decades of porcelain, wood and ceramic pieces set in precious metals.

Museo de América

Eduardo Longoni's photographs of Argentina from the 1976 military coup to 2003, marking 50 years since the coup, in the first-floor cloister.

Casa de AméricaFree

Monumental five-level Mexican Day of the Dead altar honouring exiles who rebuilt their lives in Mexico, from Spanish Republicans in 1939 to victims of Latin American dictatorships.

Museo del RomanticismoFree

Collage, poetry and graphic novels by the late Canarian queer artist Roberta Marrero, who reworked Romantic myths of the dandy and the damned from a trans perspective.

Museo del PradoPast

A reassessment of the genre paintings of Valeriano Bécquer, brother of the poet Gustavo Adolfo, chronicling Andalusian daily life and popular customs.

CaixaForum MadridPast

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 Reina SofíaFreePast

An exploration of curator and artist Blanca Sánchez Berciano (1948-2007) through collage, Camp aesthetics and archive materials that trace Madrid's cultural movements.

Espacio Fundación TelefónicaFreePast

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

Museo Arqueológico NacionalPast

An exhibition and historic-garden itinerary tracing botany, art and Andalusi memory, running through the museum's al-Andalus galleries and garden.

Galería de las Colecciones RealesPast

Exceptional royal textiles and embroideries, many never before displayed, showing the palace workshops behind centuries of courtly furnishings.

Museo Reina SofíaPast

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.

Galería de las Colecciones RealesPast

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

Museo de AméricaFreePast

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

Museo de Historia de MadridFreePast

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

Museo del RomanticismoFreePast

Drawings by Federico de Madrazo, Luis de Madrazo and Vicente Palmaroli trace the artistic study trips to Italy that shaped 19th-century Spanish Romantic painters.

Museo del TrajeFreePast

An evolving, playful exhibition built around the Museo del Traje's own collections, revealing how the museum catalogues and cares for its holdings.

Museo Arqueológico NacionalPast

A rotating showcase near the permanent exhibition entrance exploring classical theatre, from Greek tragedy to Roman comedy.

Museo Arqueológico NacionalFreePast

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

Museo Arqueológico NacionalPast

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

Museo CerralboFreePast

Tanit Plana's site-specific installation of large-format printed fabrics, a critical look at the museum professionals who research, collect and exhibit heritage, shown in the Ferraz Room.

Espacio Fundación TelefónicaFreePast

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

CaixaForum MadridFreePast

The first joint show by brothers Javier and Rafa Forteza pairs paintings and sculpture that resist easy recognition, exploring the enigma of the face and the limits of figuration.

Museo Nacional de Artes DecorativasFree

Textile artist Gema Polanco turns the museum's second floor into a site-specific, ritual-charged domestic space, part of PHotoESPAÑA 2026.

Museo Lázaro GaldianoFree

An outdoor sculpture exhibition in the museum gardens, staged with Arte Madrid for the Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend festival.

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

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

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Twelve works by brothers Mariano and Vicente Moreno, pioneering Spanish art photographers whose Madrid studio left an archive of over 60,000 negatives.

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San FernandoFree

Habsburg Madrid in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the court drew Velázquez, Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Vesalius to the heart of a global empire.

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Marks the 250th anniversary of the United States with a rare 1796 portrait of George Washington by Josef Perovani, shown beside Goya's portrait of Manuel Godoy.

Palacio de CristalFree

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

Fundación MAPFRE – Sala Recoletos

The first European retrospective of American photographer Minor White, marking 50 years since his death, covering nature, portraiture and his innovative photographic sequences.

Fundación MAPFRE – Sala Recoletos

A survey of over forty women artists linked to the Pre-Raphaelite movement, tracing their careers and creative paths through the Victorian era.

Fundación MAPFRE – Sala Recoletos

Traces how Hans Prinzhorn's collection of psychiatric-patient artwork influenced Expressionist, Dadaist and Surrealist artists, and its later revival as Art Brut by Jean Dubuffet.

Museo Cerralbo

A portrait of writer Emilia Pardo Bazán, on loan from A Coruña, spotlighting women who championed heritage preservation alongside the Marquis of Cerralbo.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Retrospective of the East Village artist and urban art pioneer, with paintings, sculptures, installations and murals blending pop culture and surrealism.

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

An interdisciplinary look at feathers as cultural and symbolic material across world cultures, from historic featherwork to contemporary art by Henar Iglesias.

Matadero MadridFree

Carlos Aires transforms Nave 0, the slaughterhouse's fire-scarred former cold room, into a haunted dance floor of shored-up metal supports and some twenty screens, part of the Abierto x Obras site-specific series.

Museo Reina Sofía

A centenary retrospective built around the visceral mixed-media works of Spanish Informalist painter Manolo Millares (1926-1972), exploring repression and human suffering through torn hessian and abstraction.

CaixaForum Madrid

A 70-minute immersive audiovisual journey through biodiversity, produced with National Geographic and OASIS Immersive Studios, urging action to protect the natural world.

Museo Reina Sofía

Eli Cortiñas revisits her 2016 work on cinema, museums and colonial imagery, adding new AI-generated installations that critique how algorithms and institutions perpetuate power imbalances.

Palacio de VelázquezFree

A retrospective of over 200 works by Fernando Sánchez Castillo dismantling monuments and symbols of power, framed around the legend of a lost royal pearl.

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Wildlife photography from the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology (SESBE) on habitat, coevolution, sexual selection, social evolution and the Anthropocene.