The third of the big three museums (with the Prado, Reina Sofia). Free Monday. Unbelievable but this is about 2/3 of the Thyssen-Bornemisza private collection. Has an impressive mixture of paintings, old masters, some modern, even a Gilbert Stuart. If you do all three museums...More

Baron Thyssen bought everything. Much of it is second-rate paintings by great masters, but some of it is great: El Greco's "The Crown of Thorns," Sargent's "Onion Seller," Corot's "Nymph," Goya's "Ferdinand VII," Bierstadt's "Sunset on the Prarie," Remington's "Stealing Horses," etc. Incredibly, Thyssen acquired...More

We visited this Gallery on a Monday afternoon (12.00 to 16:00) when the gallery is free. I'd recommend going to the temporary exhibitions on the top floors as they close at 13:00 on Mondays first and work your way down. There are some 200 pieces...More

A museum worth seeing....do not miss it. Its a very complete compendium of art, from the 1400 to the actual time. Very will exposed.

This was our favorite museum visit. It has a little bit of everything and we especially enjoyed the modern art. I would suggest buying tickets ahead of time. People start lining up around the building to go in early.

We went on a Monday afternoon when the admission is free (from noon to 4 p.m) and were pleasantly surprised that there wasn’t a huge line to get in when we arrived around 12:30 p.m. and while there were a lot of people in the...More

great building with the artwork spread across the floors. Some really wonderful artwork, that we strolled around for a number of hours,its amazing to think this is a private collection. Well worth visiting this museum