In your trip to Madrid, especially if it is the first time you visit the city, you will surely do the essential visit to the Prado Museum.
You already know that it is the first art gallery in the world, and your visit to the capital will be incomplete if you do not at least take a tour of the main halls of this museum.
Planning your visit is easy because this museum has a long hours available after the changes that occurred in 2012, when from then on it was established to be open to the public every day of the week.
To this must be added the subsequent changes in the policy of rates, with a single price to visit the museum compared to the different rates that existed when visiting the Temporary exhibitions or the permanent collection.
All the information in detail
How to visit the permanent collection of the Prado Museum
It should be noted that during the time of pandemic was used to reorder the permanent collection exhibition, with a relocation of certain works.
It should be remembered that at that time the visit to the museum was limited to about 200 paintings distributed throughout the Central Gallery, compared to the 1.800 frames displayed under normal conditions.
Visiting hours of the Prado Museum
The Prado Museum visiting hours They are, from Monday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 20 p.m., and on Sundays and holidays, from 10 a.m. to 19 p.m.
You can enter the museum up to half an hour before closing time.
You must know that there are very few holidays when the Prado Museum closes, and specifically you cannot visit it on January 1, May 1 and December 25.
In addition, on January 6 and December 24 and 31, the museum has a reduced visiting hoursOf 10 to 14 hours.
Ticket prices at the Prado Museum
Prado Museum ticket prices They are the general one, 15 euros, and the reduced one, 7,50 euros, which benefits, among other groups, those over 65 years of age, large families, and holders of the Youth Card.
Bliss rate usual is a price unique that allows you to visit both the permanent collection and the temporary exhibitions that are taking place at the time of your visit.
Also, be sure to check under what circumstances you can visit the Prado Museum for free.
Of course, under normal conditions the Entry to the Prado Museum is free for all audiences Monday to Saturday, from 18:20 p.m. to 17:19 p.m., and on Sundays and holidays, from XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.
For its part, the Art Walk Pass Card allows you to visit, in addition to the Prado Museum, Reina Sofia Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, for a price of 40,40 euros.
How to buy tickets to visit the Prado museum without queues
For buy tickets to visit the Prado Museum You have to do it online in advance of your visit, although every day there is a remainder of tickets on sale at the ticket offices.
With advance purchase you can choose the day and time for your visit and, in addition, you will go directly to the museum's entrance door, without having to wait in line at the ticket offices.
Guided tours of the Prado Museum
If to get to know the museum, instead of doing it on your own, you prefer to do it with the help of a guide in spanish, here you have information about guided tours in museums in Madrid.
And, specifically, here you have the information about the guided tour of the Prado Museum, which you will do in Spanish with the company of a expert guide in art and history.
With a duration of an hour and a half, and accessing the museum without waiting in lines, you will be able to see the most outstanding paintings that are preserved in the Madrid art gallery.
You can combine this visit with others Featured museums in Madrid, and specifically the so-called Art Walk. like those mentioned above Thyssen-Bornemisza y Reina Sofia.
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In the 90's I lived in Madrid (between 1990-96) and I remember something that, perhaps today is difficult to conceive and even more difficult to realize: free museums!
(I suppose that, like the man in the joke, who is not worried about the price of gasoline since he always charges the same thing, €20... many will have no qualms; "they don't care about 8 or 80"; €0 or €18 , because, “if I have never been to a museum, now that the Internet exists, even less so” (!?).
I can't remember the reason and what circumstances, or if it only affected the Community of Madrid, or the city, or was it at the state level.
The fact is that it turned out to be a true privilege, a luxury that, in my case, allowed me to visit the Prado without haste and with much more attention and repetition, and this was fundamental because it allowed me to verify that, as with the people (and with everything in life) “the first impression is the one that remains” and if you trust it, as with people, you will have a wrong, false idea, from which, everything that your mind makes from that information (opinion, conjecture, deduction, sensation, idea, judgment, prejudice...) will be flawed and wrong, but nevertheless you will not even have the slightest doubt about your own opinion, which you will believe to be founded and argued with rigor, common sense, discretion and everything that the very good judgment you have about yourself (ego) allows and endorses... but, although we do not want to admit it, everything we think, do and say, is usually "lightly."
That's why there's nothing wrong with doubting ourselves and our reasons. And we should not hesitate so much to rectify and change them when we find others that are more founded, fair, convincing, accurate... give credence to the vision and point of view of others.
But there will always be those who will not feel addressed because they have always put the same thing into their brain and it has worked out well for them, it is the others who are not trustworthy.