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

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,...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The ICO collection includes some 600 works, split into categories that include Spanish painting 1980-2000, modern Spanish sculpture and 20th century...

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

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