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Prado Museum in Madrid: guided tours and other options

Prado Museum on the Prado promenade in Madrid
Prado Museum on the Prado promenade in Madrid

When visit the Prado Museum in Madrid, you may be interested in doing it with a tour.

In this regard you should know that there are no established official guided tours for tour the Prado Museum.

But you have other options that allow you to have additional knowledge about the various works exhibited in the great Madrid art gallery.

Guided tours in the Prado Museum

First of all, hire one of the private official guides that authorized by the Museo del Prado They accompany you during the visit.

La visit of the Prado Museum with a guide expert in art and history allows you to know the keys to the most important works exhibited in the museum, as well as curiosities about them.

The price of this guided tour is 37 euros for adults, and the duration of the visit is about two hours.

This visit is always done in Spanish, although sometimes it is combined with comments in another language for other visitors.

Rent an audio guide

Another option you have for this visit is rent an audio guide.

Prado Museum on the Prado promenade in Madrid
Prado Museum on the Prado promenade in Madrid

With this device you will be able to freely move around the different rooms of the Museo del Prado and consult the information that the audio guide offers you about specific paintings.

In total, in the audio guide of the Prado Museum in Madrid You have up to three hours of information, and you can access it simply by pressing the numbers with which the box is identified.

El audio guide price to visit the permanent collection is 4 euros (2018), and if you want to use it for a temporary exhibition, the price is 3,50 euros, with a combined price for both exhibitions of 6 euros.

If you plan to rent the audio guides and are going to do the visit to the Prado Museum accompanied by children from 5 to 12 years old, you will have a free children's audio guide for each one that is going to be used by an adult.

Didactic itineraries in the Prado Museum

And a last option is to sign up for the free thematic guided tours of the Prado Museum that are offered to visitors of this institution.

Prado Museum on the Prado promenade in Madrid
Prado Museum on the Prado promenade in Madrid

Is educational itineraries by specific rooms, which are scheduled monthly for specific dates and times.

When you plan your visit to the Prado Museum, if you are interested in seeing the possibility of doing some of these thematic guided tours, I recommend that you access the official website of the Prado Museum.

There you will find the programming of educational itineraries, and you can check if any of those planned are of interest to you and coincide with your date of visit to the museum.

To participate in these educational itineraries you have to sign up directly Museo del Prado, accessing it through the Jerónimos Gate, 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of the tour.

About the Author

José Luis Sarralde

Journalist and traveler throughout his life, José Luis Sarralde is the founder of Guías Viajar, where since 2008 he has been capturing his travel experiences around the world, specializing in cultural and scenic destinations in Spain and Europe.

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