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The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

No. 76 Top 100 Most Visited Art Museums 2025 · 1,003,455 visitors in 2025

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Madrid, Spain · City guide: Madrid

Seven centuries of European painting, from early Italian masters to Pop Art, on Madrid's Paseo del Prado.

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Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Overview

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is No. 76 in The Art Newspaper's survey of the world's most visited art museums, with 1,003,455 visitors in 2025, up 5% on 2024. It opened in 1992 in the Villahermosa Palace, opposite the Prado, and with the Prado and the Reina Sofía forms Madrid's 'Golden Triangle of Art'.

Its collection, assembled by the Thyssen-Bornemisza family and acquired by Spain in 1993, fills gaps in the other two museums: early Italian and Netherlandish painting, Impressionism, German Expressionism and American art. The Carmen Thyssen collection is shown alongside it.

The entrance hall of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
The entrance hall of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Photo: rene boulay, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

Best time to visit

Weekday mornings are the quietest. The permanent collection is free on Monday afternoons; check the official website for hours.

Highlights & collections

  • 1

    Old Masters

    Domenico Ghirlandaio's Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, Jan van Eyck's Annunciation Diptych and Carpaccio's Young Knight in a Landscape.

  • 2

    Impressionists and Post-Impressionists

    Works by Monet, Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cézanne and Gauguin.

  • 3

    German Expressionism

    Kirchner, Nolde and the artists of Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter.

  • 4

    American art

    Paintings by Edward Hopper, including Hotel Room, and 19th-century American landscapes.

  • 5

    Modern masters

    Picasso, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Lichtenstein and others on the ground floor.

Getting there

The museum is at Paseo del Prado 8. The nearest metro station is Banco de España (Line 2); Atocha station is about 15 minutes' walk away.

Visiting tips

Tickets & hours
Buy tickets online or at the museum. Check the official website for prices, free times and hours.
Time needed
Two to three hours.
Currency
Euro (EUR). Cards, including contactless, are accepted almost everywhere.
Visa & entry
Spain is in the Schengen Area. Many visitors, including citizens of the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, can stay up to 90 days in any 180-day period without a visa. The EU's Entry/Exit System (EES) now records non-EU travellers' entries and exits at the border, and the ETIAS travel authorisation is due to follow. Check the official EU site travel-europe.europa.eu and your own government's travel advice before you go.

Official information: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (official website). Check opening hours, prices and entry rules there before you go.

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