Private Thyssen Museum Tour by a licensed guide and art historian of Madrid Museum Tours.

Our private Thyssen Museum tour is, without doubt, the best complement to our Prado Museum Tours .

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum collection features schools of painting art, periods and masters that do not belong to be displayed at the Prado. Like Gothic Catalan Art, Flemish Art of the XVII century, German Expressionism, Constructivism Art, American Abstract, Famous Contemporary Painters…

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum rich collection of paintings, from the Romanesque period until the late Twentieth Century – with emphasis on famous German painters of German Expressionism school – was initiated and expanded in the first decades of the 20th century by the German noble family Thyssen-Bornemisza. Along the years it became the most important private collection in the world, assigned in 1993 to the Spanish State by baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza thanks to the valuable mediation of his wife Baroness Carmen Thyssen- Bornemisza.

Your licensed guide will describe on this private tour the compositional techniques of all the schools of painting, and their periods, which are represented in the museum. You will learn as well the influence of the art of painting on photography and cinema. You will also be happy to see how social phenomena of a Time got reflected in its Art.

The neoclassical edification of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum was built by Pico della Mirandola. The Spanish architect Rafael Moneo converted it into an awesome museum.

Length:2 hours

Time: Tours take place from Tuesday to Sunday between 10 AM and 4 PM

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish.

Guides: All our guides are licensed by the Madrid Regional Government and Art History specialists.

Tickets: Cost of museum admission is NOT included in the tour pricing, as group sizes vary.

• Our designated meeting point is at the Information counter of Thyssen B. museum.
• This tour is not available on Monday.

Cancellations: before 8 days of the tour: NO penalization.

• Less than 7 days before the Tour: 100% cancellation cost.