A forerunner among Madrid's galleries, this large, beautiful space shows highly contemporary installation work, video, painting and photography. Artists are primarily Spanish,...

A classic on the Madrid art scene, Guillermo de Osma specialises in artists from the avant-garde movements of 1910-40 and holds five to six shows a year, always accompanied by...

This contemporary gallery originally endeavoured to introduce Madrid to German artists such as Joseph Beuys and Baselitz. In the past few years, however, it has expanded its...

Helga de Alvear, a feisty, fashionable German gallery owner who has lived in Madrid for over 40 years and runs her eponymous gallery, is a leader in internationalising the...

This exciting new multidisciplinary centre in a large neo-Mudéjar building was conceived as a space for cultural interchange. Spread over four floors, the 'Burning House' is...

This luminary of the Madrid art world represents major Spanish artists (Antonio Saura, Blanca Muñoz, Luis Gordillo), and has branches in London, New York, Monte Carlo and...

Established in 1981, Lola Moriarty's gallery was a prime hangout and showcase for artists on the Movida scene, and today still supports the Spanish avant-garde and contemporary...

Laid out in a sumptuous late 19th-century mansion in Argüelles is the incredible private collection of artworks and artefacts assembled by Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, the...

This museum comprises the finest collection of pre-Columbian American art and artefacts in Europe, a combination of articles brought back at the time of the Conquest and during...

An unconventional museum, this '70s space at the junction of the Castellana with C/Juan Bravo was the brainchild of engineers José Antonio Fernández Ordoñez and Julio Martínez...

Housed in a gigantic neo-classical building begun by Juan de Villanueva for King Charles III in 1785, the Prado is Madrid's best-known attraction. Charles originally wanted to...

This unjustifiably little-known museum holds the extraordinarily eclectic collection of 15,000 paintings and objets d'art, covering 24 centuries, that was accumulated over 70...

The council's contemporary art collection covers painting and graphic work, along with sculpture, photography and drawing. The first floor relates works and artists of...

Occupying an immense, slab-sided building, the Reina Sofía boasts an impressive façade with glass and steel lift-shafts, designed by British architect Ian Ritchie. Now, though,...