The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of Spanish art. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture in 1819, it also contains important collections of other types of works. El Prado is one of the most visited sites in the world, and is considered one the greatest museums of art in the world. 

 

Hours:  6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Monday to Saturday

Sunday: 5:pm – 7:00 pm

Free for kids

 

Address: Paseo del Prado, s/n, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Metro: Banco de España station

www.museodelprado.es

 

 

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS, also called the Museo Reina Sofía, Queen Sofía Museum, El Reina Sofía, or simply The Sofia) is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992 and is named for Queen Sofía. It is located in Madrid, near the Atocha train and metro stations, at the southern end of the so-called Golden Triangle of Art (located along the Paseo del Prado and also comprising the Museo del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza).

 

Hours:  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Sunday: Free 

 

Address: Calle de Santa Isabel, 52, 28012 Madrid, Spain

Metro: Atocha station

www.museoreinasofia.es

 

 

The Buen Retiro Park is a large and popular 1.4 km2 (350 acres) park at the edge of the city center, very close to the Puerta de Alcalá and not far from the Prado Museum. A magnificent park, filled with beautiful sculpture and monuments, galleries, a peaceful lake and host to a variety of events, it is one of Madrid's premier attractions. The park is entirely surrounded by the present-day city.

 

Open day: Free

 

Address: Plaza de la Independencia, 7, 28001 Madrid, Spain

Metro: Retiro and Ibiza station

 

CaixaForum Madrid is a museum and cultural center in Paseo del Prado 36, Madrid. It is sponsored by La Caixa.It was constructed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron from 2001 to 2007, which combined an old abandoned electrical station with new construction of floors which are encased with oxidized cast-iron, which was meant to be of a similar color and weight as the brick below. 

 

Open day: Free

 

Address: Paseo del Prado 36, Madrid

Metro: Atocha station

www.fundacio.lacaixa.es

 

The building was originally the artist's house, and was converted into a museum after the death of his widow. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1962.[1] The principal rooms continue to be furnished as they were during the artist\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s life, including Sorolla's large, well-lit studio,where the walls are filled with his canvasses. Other rooms are used as galleries to display Sorolla's paintings, while the upstairs rooms are a gallery for special exhibitions. 

 

Sunday: Free 

Free for kids

 

Address: Paseo del General Martínez Campos, 37, 28010 Madrid, Spain

Metro:Iglesia and Gregorio Marañón  station

www.museosorolla.mcu.es