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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.

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.

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.

On Saturdays and Sundays from February to May 2026 the museum will be offering guided tours of the exhibition Hammershøi. The eye that listens, the first retrospective in Spain to be devoted to the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916).

What if you could see some of the most representative paintings of the museum in a completely original and unique way? The whispers of the Big Bang is an activity that combines art and science by proposing,

Friends of the museum have the opportunity to enjoy some of the concerts organised by the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía [Reina Sofía School of Music], thanks to an agreement signed in 2019 and renewed annually.

Following the success of the first edition, the museum is now offering the second part of the course In situ / Ex situ sponsored by Visit Flanders, which focuses on the evolution of Flemish painting in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. 

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.

Within the context of International Museum Day, the museum is offering guided tours of Gaza, where life endures, an exhibition organised in conjunction with UNRWA Spain, the United Nations Agency for the Palestinian refugee population.  

To celebrate International Museum Day, the museum is presenting a concert by the Choir of the Royal Casino of Madrid. The programme offers a musical journey from the Renaissance to the present day, through “soundscapes” that express universal emotions such as love, nostalgia, spirituality and hope. 

The museum is celebrating International Museum Day with Five works to unite a divided world, a special activity inspired by the motto proposed by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) for this year: “Museums uniting a divided world”.

To mark International Museum Day, which this year invites reflection on the role of art centres as bridges across cultural, social and geopolitical divides, the museum, in collaboration with TBA21, is organising four free, guided tours of the exhibition Pedagogies of War by Ukrainian artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk.

Within the framework of the cycle Colonial Memory II. Tuning in to the whispers, the museum is presenting a sung conversation with the Afro-transvestite singer-songwriter and performing artist Magdalena Moreno Morales. 

This session offers an analysis of works created for a cultured clientele that demanded civic portraits, domestic scenes, landscapes, cityscapes and seascapes. The museum's exceptional collection of 17^th-century Dutch painting allows for a detailed examination of this fruitful artistic period.

Martina Nováková and Miguel Valentín present a performative tour that brings audiences closer to the experience of war and its impact on everyday life and spatial perception.

Vasyl Cherepanyn, Mahmoud M. Al-Shaer, and Skye Arundhati Thomas for a conversation on the cultural and artistic practices emerging in the midst of ongoing international conflict.

Young Friends have the opportunity to tour the collection with a focus on Latin America.

A documentary following the volunteer networks that mobilised across Ukraine after the 2022 invasion to protect the country's artistic heritage.

The new edition of Focus on the collection offers a thematic route around the permanent collection, exploring how pain has been represented over the centuries.