Activities

Through our guided tours on weekends and public holidays you can learn in detail about the life and work of the artists, their influences and motivations, and why they became icons of art.

The fourth edition of Vision and Presence features ten performative actions over the course of the year which have been expressly created to be seen in the museum.

Once again this season, we are offering tours of the museum and the Royal Botanical Garden which focus on the different seasons of the year. In this new edition the protagonists are autumn’s red and golden tones.

18^th century Nativity scene from the Isidro Brunete Collection.

El salón de actos acoge una jornada abierta de encuentro, arte y reflexión en la que los Amigos jóvenes, protagonistas del programa LabThyssen, comparten su experiencia como parte de esta iniciativa que les permite imaginar y transformar su propia programación cultural. 

Pierre Bonnard's portrait of Misia Godebska is the focus of the November issue of Focus on the work, an exclusive activity for Friends which offers a detailed explanation of the story behind a work in the collection. 

Dr Marta Oses from the Spanish Society of Neurology will lead Young Friends on a tour of the permanent collection in which she analyses how some symptoms experienced by the brain during altered mental states have been represented in painting. 

Hannah Kemp-Welch’s Sonic Walkthrough invites visitors to respond to the exhibition Listening All Night To The Rain through sound.

The Museo Thyssen is presenting an exhibition that brings together fifty masterpieces by Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee which belonged to the German art dealer and collector Heinz Berggruen. 

On Saturdays and Sundays from October to January, the museum is offering guided tours of Warhol, Pollock and other American Spaces, an exhibition that brings together the work of these two key figures in 20^thcentury art.

The museum organizes a series of conversations to pay tribute to the collectors who ensure the continuing renewal of contemporary art and its system. 

Listening All Night to the Marassa is a dance activation of John Akomfrah’s exhibition Listening All Night to the Rain. 

What do we feel when we look at a work of art? Although the experience of art is deeply subjective, our reactions can be measured and analysed. Discover this research project that unites art, technology and health.

Take a closer look at the works in the collection from the point of view of the museum's restorers and you will learn about the treatments carried out on the paintings as well as some of the secrets and curiosities hidden in a selection of our Masterpieces.

With this virtual guided tour you can travel through seven centuries of art history through fifteen masterpieces and delve deeper into our collection. Narrated by our curators, discover the little stories hidden in the paintings at any time and pause the guided tour whenever you want.

In this edition of Traveling with the painting, the Friends have the opportunity to travel to Florence and follow in the footsteps of Fra Angelico's The Virgin of Humility, which the museum has temporarily loaned for inclusion in the exhibition on that Renaissance master scheduled this autumn by the Palazzo Strozzi.

Art and wine go hand in hand in a unique experience that joins the Thyssen with the symbolic Mercado de San Miguel. An interesting way to explore gastronomic culture and art.

Friends will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition with a guest on the day before it opens to the public and can also join the in-person or online guided tours offered with a range of dates and times while the exhibition is on display.