Where should I start?

On your visit to the museum you can trace the history of Western painting from the 13th to the 20th century, and its rooms house two collections: the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection and the Carmen Thyssen Collection. 

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection is located on the first and second floors, and the Carmen Thyssen Collection on the ground floor. In addition, there are spaces dedicated to our temporary exhibitions on the ground floor and on floor -1. 



If you want to start chronologically, you must go to the end of the central hall and go up the stairs or take the lift to the second floor, room 1.

The estimated duration of the visit to the two collections is 3 hours and 30 minutes. We remind you that today you can enter and leave the museum as many times as you like (please note that you cannot enter and leave the temporary exhibition on the ground floor). 

It is located on the first and second floors. Duccio, Van Eyck, Dürer, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Monet, Degas, Morisot, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Kirchner, Mondrian, O'Keeffe, Hopper... these are just some of the great names in painting whose work you will see. Nearly a thousand works that will take you on a journey through the history of Western painting from the 13th to the 20th century.

It is located on the ground floor. Corot, Pissarro, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rodin, Kandinsky, Picasso, Estes... the Carmen Thyssen Collection presents a chronological journey from 17th-century Dutch painting to 20th-century art.