For:: General public

An 18th-century Neapolitan Nativity scene is now installed in the museum’s entrance hall until 6 January 2025. It belongs to the Isidro Brunete Collection and has been loaned for display at the museum during the Christmas season. This Nativity was started in the 1970s and includes notable groups of figures such as the angels, the principal scene of the Virgin, the Christ Child and Saint Joseph, and the Magi, accompanied by more figures that illustrate life of the time: street sellers, musicians, travellers, passers-by, shoppers, innkeepers and others that represent a wide range of activities and trades, all surrounding the principal scene of the Birth of Christ.

During the Christmas period the museum will continue to offer a varied exhibition programme which includes both the Thyssen collections and the exhibitions Gabriele Münter. The great woman Expressionist painter, Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebulaand Peter Halley in Spain, as well as the installation Exceptional picture frames and the Invited Work Mediterrània by Joaquim Sunyer.

The museum will be maintaining its normal opening hours, except for 26 and 27 December and 2 and 3 January, when the exhibitions on Gabriele Münter and Tabita Rezaire will stay open late, until 9 pm; 24 and 31 December, when the entire museum will close at 3 pm, and 25 December and 1 January, when it will be closed.

The Education Department has organised two new family visits for the school holidays: Painting with three Spots, aimed at families with children aged 3 to 6 years, and Box of surprises, for children aged 7 and above. In addition, programmed for 22 December is the children’s concert Interconnecting arts: Musical landscapes. From Bach to Britten, in which music and painting establish a dialogue.

Finally, the cafeteria and the bookshop will stay open over the holidays, offering a wide range of designer items inspired by the museum’s exhibitions and the paintings in its collections, making them very suitable for original gift ideas at this time of year, also available from the online shop.