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All Exhibitions Children & families Friends
Proust and the Arts
Temporary Exhibition
Proust and the Arts
From 4 March to 8 June 2025
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Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq
Temporary Exhibition
Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq
A Journey into the Rural Music Traditions of North Africa and the Arab World
From 18 February to 18 May 2025
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Ayako Rokkaku
Temporary Exhibition
Ayako Rokkaku
For the moments that you feel paradise
From 23 May to 7 September 2025
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Guardi and Venice in the Collection of the Gulbenkian Museum
Small format exhibition
Guardi and Venice in the Collection of the Gulbenkian Museum
From 3 February to 12 May 2025
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Marina Vargas: Revelations
Temporary Exhibition
Marina Vargas: Revelations
From 10 February to 4 May 2025
Recovering the light. Restoration of Waterloo Bridge, by André Derain
Special display
Recovering the light. Restoration of Waterloo Bridge, by André Derain
From 3 April to 23 June 2025
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Art & Wine. Madrid Tour. Thematic tour with audioguide and audiotasting
Special
Art & Wine. Madrid Tour. Thematic tour with audioguide and audiotasting
2025
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.
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Secrets in artworks of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Guided visit online
Secrets in artworks of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
2025
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.
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An hour at the Thyssen
Guided visit online
An hour at the Thyssen
2025
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.
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Entangled worlds: the mysteries of quantum physics
Guided visit
Entangled worlds: the mysteries of quantum physics
Every Friday in May 2025
Entangled worlds is an original guided tour that brings together art and science through quantum physics. This is an informal scientific talk, illustrated with masterpieces from the museum's permanent collection which help us to understand complex and extremely beautiful scientific concepts.
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Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies
Special
Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies
From October 2024 to June 2025
TBA21–Academy and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza present Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies, an experimental independent study program connecting research, theory, and speculation through a series of focused case studies—regenerative interventions that explore different forms of alliance. 
General public
The beauty of chaos: on the complexity of nature
Guided visit
The beauty of chaos: on the complexity of nature
Every Friday in June 2025
What if chaos had nothing to do with disorder but rather with sensibility? In fact, in science the concept of chaos has nothing to do with disorder. This tour aims to introduce participants to science in an original and simple manner, using masterpieces from the museum's permanent collection to help us understand the notion of chaos.
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Guided tour of the Masterpieces of the museum
Guided visit
Guided tour of the Masterpieces of the museum
March - June 2025
You have the opportunity to explore, along with one of our experts, the greatest masters’ canvases, with an exclusive tour that let you discover all the secrets, anecdotes and curiosities of some of the most iconic paintings in the History of Art.
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Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq: Guided visits (on demand)
Guided visit
Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq: Guided visits (on demand)
From February to May 2025
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary organiza visitas guiadas a la exposición Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq dirigidas a grupos de instituciones públicas.
Focus on the temporary exhibition. Proust and the Arts
Guided visit
Focus on the temporary exhibition. Proust and the Arts
Preview: 2 March. Guided visits: 9, 10 and 16 March, and 25 May 2025. Virtual guided tour: 7 May 2025
Los Amigos tienen la oportunidad de recorrer la exposición antes de su apertura al público y con un acompañante, y de asistir a una de las visitas privadas organizadas en diversas fechas y horarios una vez inaugurada la exposición.
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Guided tours of the temporary exhibition Proust and the Arts
Guided visit
Guided tours of the temporary exhibition Proust and the Arts
From March to June 2025
On weekends from March to June the Museo Thyssen is offering guided tours of Proust and the Arts, an exhibition that focuses on the importance of art in the work of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, recognised in the fields of literature, philosophy and art theory.
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Concert, Reina Sofía Higher School of Music
Music
Concert, Reina Sofía Higher School of Music
21 March, 28 April, 20 May and 6 June 2025
Friends can thus enjoy the chance to attend some of the concerts organised by the School, both at its headquarters and at the Auditorio Nacional.
Friends
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Emotions through Art
Project
Emotions through Art
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.
General public
#VersionaThyssen XXII
Special
#VersionaThyssen XXII
From 14 April to 12 May 2025
We are inviting young creators and creatives from all over the world to reinterpret works from the collection to compete for new prizes. If you are between 16 and 35 years old, participate on Instagram in this competition that has no limitations of artistic discipline or theme.
Young people
In search of the lost sentence. Contest on Instagram, X and TikTok
Contest
In search of the lost sentence. Contest on Instagram, X and TikTok
From 23 April to 7 May 2025
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust’s great masterpiece, opens with the unforgettable words: “For a long time, I went to bed early.”
General public
Art Vivant. Within the gaze in Barcelona
Special
Art Vivant. Within the gaze in Barcelona
From 25 April to 4 May 2025
The museum presents a piece of ephemeral architecture that places visitors face-to-face with the gaze of one of the greatest painters in history. Inspired by Self-Portrait wearing a hat and Two Chains by Rembrandt, you can now experience this proposal in Barcelona.
General public
Lecture series: Look, listen, read. Marcel Proust and the unity of the arts
Lecture
Lecture series: Look, listen, read. Marcel Proust and the unity of the arts
From 30 April to 4 June 2025
Coinciding with the exhibition Proust and the Arts, the museum is organising a lecture series that aims to delve into some of the most important aspects of the novel In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) in terms of its relationship with the arts (painting, literature, music and theatre).
General public
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Travelling with the painting: Rome
Trip
Travelling with the painting: Rome
Two groups: from 30 April to 4 May // From 4 to 8 May 2025
For the 18th edition of Travelling with the painting Friends will be visiting the Italian capital in the footsteps of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (ca. 1598-99). The museum is lending this masterpiece by Caravaggio for inclusion in the exhibition Caravaggio 2025 organised by the Galleria Nazionale Barberini Corsini.
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#VersionaThyssen XXII Awards
Special
#VersionaThyssen XXII Awards
23 May 2025
Walk through the rooms of the collection in semi-darkness and discover a selection of the versions of this edition, projected next to the original paintings. Mariang Maturana will announce the winning works.To close the ceremony, we will have the concert of Alba Reche. 
General public
Nocturnal Walkthrough with La Liminal
Guided visit
Nocturnal Walkthrough with La Liminal
10 and 17 May 2025
La Liminal collective presents a journey that crosses the threshold between movement and stop, between action and inactivity, opening us to contemplation and listening.
General public
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A different Thyssen: Sara Rubayo - Pink Paints
Guided visit
A different Thyssen: Sara Rubayo - Pink Paints
10 May 2025
Young Friends have the opportunity to discover the collection through an original and appealing guided tour led by members of the LabThyssen panel of experts.
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Exploration of the Sound Space, with Azu Tiwaline & Cinna Peyghamy
Performance
Exploration of the Sound Space, with Azu Tiwaline & Cinna Peyghamy
17 May 2025
Electronic musician Clara Brea presents a sound intervention that draws on recordings from Tarek Atoui’s concerts—treated as if they were her own field recordings—as the raw material for a new composition closely tied to the themes and context of the exhibition.
General public
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Tarek Atoui. At-Tariq: DJ SET, with Azu Tiwaline
International Museum Day 2025
Music
Tarek Atoui. At-Tariq: DJ SET, with Azu Tiwaline
18 May 2025
In celebration of International Museum Day and as a closing event for Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq, the museum and TBA21, in collaboration with Casa Árabe, organise a DJ set inspired by the exhibition’s themes.
General public
Masterpieces: a free guided tour
International Museum Day 2025
Masterpieces: a free guided tour
18 May 2025
General public
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We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, with the presentation of the film by its director, Fred Kudjo Kuwornu
Cinema
We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, with the presentation of the film by its director, Fred Kudjo Kuwornu
20 May 2025
The museum is premiering in Spain a documentary that sheds light on the presence of Africans and Black people in Renaissance Europe, highlighting their representation in masterpieces by some of the most renowned artists of the time.
General public
Eugenia S. Rudin. Living signs of the landscape
Performance
Eugenia S. Rudin. Living signs of the landscape
21 May 2025
In Living signs of the landscape Eugenia S. Rudin (Nicaragua-Costa Rica, 1982) takes as her starting point one of the works in the 19th-century American Landscape Architecture room to address the question of migration for climatic reasons.
General public
Focus on the work. Michiel Sweerts
Guided visit
Focus on the work. Michiel Sweerts
21 May 2025
In this new edition of Focus on the work Friends of the museum have the opportunity to engage in an intimate and insightful manner with the life and work of the 17th century Flemish painter Michiel Sweerts.
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In situ / Ex situ
Course
In situ / Ex situ
From 22 May to 21 June 2025
This new course, organised in collaboration with Visit Flanders, analyses the life and oeuvre of painters active from the 15th to the 17th centuries in Flanders, one of the most prosperous regions of the time, focusing on works expressly conceived for the places where they are still to be seen today.
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