Free museums in Madrid

To plan a cultural holiday with tickets to museums can be really expensive. Sometimes, you have to decide which are the ones you prefer so you don’t spend all your budget quickly. You will be glad to know that there are several very interesting free museums in Madrid. Today we’re going to talk to you about the most important ones in the field of paintings.

100% free museums in Madrid

Art, archaeology, history, architecture… a wide variety of museums in Madrid can be visited completely for free. These are the best ones (for us)

Art without queuing up to pay

Although it’s true that not all year round, or at every moment, some of the most important art museums in Madrid have times where you can enter without having to pay. In the Prado Museum, there’s a free entry from Monday to Saturday, from 6pm to 8pm and Sundays and festivities from 5pm to 7pm. The Reina Sofía Museum offers free entry on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 7pm to 9pm, and on Sundays from 1:30pm to 7pm, and the 18th and 19th of April, 18th of May, 12th of October and 6th of December, during the whole day.

The Thyssen Museum also gives you the opportunity of visiting it for free on Mondays from 12am to 4pm. To enjoy this you will have to reserve.

The House Museum of the 19th Century Spanish painter, Sorolla, is free on Saturdays and Sundays from 2pm to 8pm although the entry the rest of the days is really affordable.

Another free museum is the Contemporary Art Museum that can be visited at a free cost from Tuesday to Saturdays from 10am to 2pm and from 5:30pm to 9pm.

The San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts is free on non-festive Wednesdays and on the 18th of May, October 12th and December 6th. Other museums in Madrid like the ICO and the ABC Museum of Drawings and Illustrations are free all year around.

In the following posts of Madrid Smart Rentals’ blog we will tell you all about other free museums in Madrid, beyond paintings.