What's on

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

As part of the exhibition Listening All Night to the Rain by John Akomfrah, the film MASCON: A Massive Concentration of Black Interscalar Energy (2024) is presented for the first time in Spain. The work is produced by The Otolith Group.

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.

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.