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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.

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 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,

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.

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.

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.

TBA21–Academy and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza present Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies, an experimental independent study program connecting research, theory, and speculation through a series of focused case studies—regenerative interventions that explore different forms of alliance. 

The multidisciplinary artist Hugáceo Crujiente is offering a guided tour to Friends of the Thyssen and other young people who book the event, based on a selection of works that he/she/they have made and entitled Crujiente.

What if chaos had nothing to do with disorder but rather with sensibility? In fact, in science the concept of chaos has nothing to do with disorder. This tour aims to introduce participants to science in an original and simple manner, using masterpieces from the museum's permanent collection to help us understand the notion of chaos.

Guided tours of the exhibition Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula led by the artist and curator Raisa Maudit, on Saturday 2 November, and by the astrophysicist José Antonio Caballero on 14 December. Both will explore a particular subject relating to the themes addressed in the exhibition, from alternative spiritualities to astrophysical explorations and decolonial narratives.

Organised to coincide with the presentation at the museum of the first retrospective in Spain devoted to the German artist Gabriele Münter, the Friends programme is offering an online course. It will aim to further knowledge of the painter and her key role, as a member of the NKVM and Blaue Reiter [Blue Rider] groups, in the creation and organisation of the first exhibitions of Expressionist painting in Munich. 

Friends have the chance to visit the exhibition before it opens to the public in the company of a guest  and also to take part in one of the private guided tours scheduled for various dates and times following the inauguration.

The Fundación Cultura en Vena will be bringing together the cultural and health sectors at the museum with the aim of focusing on the connections between art and health. This is a new Study Day that also coincides with World Children's Day on 20 November. 

For the present season of autumn we will be focusing on paintings with reddish and brown colours representative of this time of year: plants, trees, parks and gardens provide the guiding thread through the galleries, after which the content of the works comes to life in a natural space where an expert botanist explains the burgeoning natural world. 

On weekends from November to February the museum is offering guided tours of the exhibition devoted to Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), one of the founders of Der Blaue Reiter [The Blue Rider], the famous Expressionist artists’ group based in Munich.  

The second session of the film cycle: Gabriele Münter The Great Expressionist Woman Painter is a free adaptation of the literary classic The Thousand and One Nights with a cast led by Douglas Fairbanks.

The museum is hosting a conversation with Tania Safura Adam (journalist, curator and researcher), Elsa Casanova (artist) Sampé and Diego Blas (researcher in the Department of Physics at the UAB) on the historical intersections between science, culture and religion in concepts concerning the sky.