How to visit and what to see at the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid): schedules, prices

On your cultural tour of the Paseo del Prado de Madrid, a visit that should be essential is the Reina Sofía Art Center museum,

In case you don't know, I will tell you that on this visit, at the very least, you have the opportunity to see one of the masterpieces of Spanish painting, the Guernica Picasso's.

The headquarters of the Reina Sofia Museum You find it in the small pedestrian plaza to the west of the Atocha station, specifically, in the 52 Santa Isabel Street.

There you have the main entrance to this Contemporary Art Museum which is located in the so-called Sabatini building, where it was previously located in former San Carlos Hospital.

Al Reina Sofía Art Center You can also access through the new new building, which was inaugurated in 2005 as part of the museum's expansion works.

The best things to see when visiting the Reina Sofía Museum

La Reina Sofía museum collection, inaugurated in 1990, is the result of the need to create a large contemporary art museum in Spain.

For this purpose, the funds of the now defunct Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art and the collection of works of art from the 20th century that the Prado Museum, whose main exponent was the aforementioned Guernica by Picasso.

In the current collection of the Reina Sofía museum It has a fund of more than 30.000 works between paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings, photographs and artistic installations, from 1881 to 2021.

The exhibition of these artistic collections has recently been rearranged, and currently about 2.000 works can be seen in the museum's rooms.

Among them there are works of contemporary artists as prestigious as Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Juan Gris, Delaunay, Braque, Yves Klein, Motherwell o Bacon.

The visit of the permanent collection of the Reina Sofía museum It is currently structured into seven thematic areas, so that contemporary art is analyzed from different perspectives.

Also in the Reina Sofia Museum there is a continuous program of Temporary exhibitions, among which has been a great success in the past, for example, the Dalí exhibition of 2013.

Reina Sofía museum visit schedules

The Visiting hours of the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid They are on Mondays and from Wednesday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 21 p.m., and on Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 14,30:XNUMX p.m.

Note that The Reina Sofía Museum is closed on Tuesdays, even on holidays, compared to the usual closing day of other museums and monuments of Madrid, which are Mondays.

Reina Sofía Museum ticket prices

In turn, the entrance price to Reina Sofía to jointly visit the permanent collection and Temporary exhibitions, it is 12 euros at the box office.

Here you have information about the beneficiaries of reduced tickets, whose price is 10,50 euros.

For your visit it is recommended purchase online inputs.

How to visit the Reina Sofía museum for free

La Entrance to the Reina Sofía museum is free, among other groups, for those under 18 years of age, university students up to 25 years of age, over 65 years of age, disabled people and their companion, unemployed, teachers, journalists and members of large families.

But the general public can also visit the Reina Sofía Museum for free on Mondays and from Tuesday to Saturday, from 19 to 21 p.m., and on Sundays, from 12,30:14,30 to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.

In the case of Sundays, only the collection with works from the first half of the 20th century and some temporary exhibitions, but not all, remain open for visits.

Guided tour of the Reina Sofía museum

To visit the museum you also have the option of signing up for a tour who will show it to you with the company of a guide in spanish expert in art and history.

This tour It lasts an hour and a half and will show you the highlights of this institution.

Here you have all the information about the Guided tour of the Reina Sofía museum.

And in case you are interested, here you have more information about tours and guided visits in museums in Madrid, among which is the option of joint visit to the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofía museums.