Is guide to visit the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid It will help you plan a route through its impressive collection, making the most of time and enjoying Spanish contemporary art, which has in its rooms some of the masterpieces of great Spanish painters of the twentieth century such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró.
The museum was inaugurated in 1992 in the old General Hospital building and is the most visited in Madrid and Spain, ahead of the Prado Museum.
Based on the two times we have visited it, the last time we were in the city we wrote this guide to travel to Madrid, we show you all the practical information on how to get there, schedule, price and type of tickets, so you can enjoy to the maximum of your visit to the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. We start!
How to get to the Reina Sofía Museum
The best way to get to the Reina Sofía Museum, one of the most essential places to visit in Madrid and one of the best museums in Madrid, is to take metro line 1 and get off at the Art Station.
If you are staying in the center, around Puerta del Sol, we recommend you walk in about 20 minutes through the beautiful neighborhood of Las Letras.
Hours of the Reina Sofía Museum
The schedule of the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum is Monday through Saturday from 10am to 9pm (Tuesday closed). While on Sundays they open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. admission is free, although you can only see the permanent collection.
On holidays from January 1 and 6 and May 1, the museum is closed, while other holidays only reduce visiting hours.
Reina Sofia Museum of Madrid
Queen Sofia Museum Prices
The price of the Reina Sofía Museum at the ticket office is 10 euros, although if you book online it is 8 euros + 0.90 management fees. The audio guide costs 4.5 euros.
There are usually no queues to access the museum, so it is no time saving to have the ticket purchased in advance, if it is not to save you one euro.
There is also a general admission valid for two visits during a whole year that costs 15 euros.
Entrance to the Reina Sofía Museum is free for children under 18, students up to 25 years, over 65 and in the last two hours of visit.
A more interesting option that will allow you to learn more about the history of the most important pieces of the museum is to book this guided tour with an expert in art and history or take this offer that also includes the guided tour of the Prado Museum.
If you are going to visit the Prado we recommend you read this post about the best works to see in the Prado Museum.
Museum Interior
What to see in the Reina Sofía Museum
This contemporary art center has an extensive collection of more than 20,000 pieces of the collection, of which only 5% is exhibited.
Based on our criteria and of course taking into account that we are not art experts, we have made this list of our Five favorite works to see at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid:
- The Guernica: This huge 3.49 × 7.77 meter painting is the jewel of the museum and one of the great masterpieces in the history of painting. It was done by the great Pablo Picasso in 1937 on behalf of the Government of the Second Spanish Republic to show the horror of the bombing of the Basque people of Guernica by German and Italian aviation during the Civil War.
- A world: This magnificent 3 × 3 meter painting was painted in 1929 by Ángeles Santos when he was 18 years old and represents a fantastic surreal world.
A world
- The palm tree house: This oil on canvas painted by Joan Miró in 1929 shows the building of Mas d'en Romeu and is the artist's first great creation.
- Allegory of winter: This painting by Remedios Varo using the Gouache technique on paper shows the cold in the form of ice cubes that trap nature.
- Girl at the window: This oil on stone cardboard was painted by Salvador Dalí in 1925 and shows his sister from behind looking at the sea.
Girl at the window
Keep in mind that in several rooms, all around the Guernica and this, it is not allowed to take photos.
To finish the visit we recommend you go up to the terrace to have a drink or just enjoy the views of Madrid.
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