FREE ADMISSION TO THE PRADO, ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST MUSEUMS!
The main exhibition hall in the Museo del Prado
by Guidepost
To begin with, when you talk about the Prado Museum in Madrid you’re talking about a world-class museum that is moreover strategically located within “the Landscape of Light,” officially “the Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, Landscape of Arts and Sciences,” “a landscape of outstanding value that man has shaped throughout history,” per UNESCO.
Think about it. The Museo del Prado houses collections of European art that date back to the 12th century based largely on the former Spanish royal collection. Awesome, isn’t it? And it gets more exciting when at once you get to enjoy the world’s greatest collection of Spanish art in one setting GRATIS!
How do you do that? Simple. Whatever your age or situation (if you’re the “general public”), head to the Museum between 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM any day between Monday and Saturday, and between 5:00 PM and 7:00 Sundays and holidays for free visits. And when it’s the first Saturday of the month, the “El Prado de Noche (the Prado at Night), you get to visit for free from 8:30 PM to 11:30 PM.
Additionally, it’s free admission throughout the day on 12 October (Dia de la Hispanidad, a Spanish national holiday), 19 November to celebrate the founding of the Prado, and 18 May on the occasion of International Museum Day.
How else can you get free admission? You’re entitled if you are
- Over 65 years old or under 18
- Youth cardholders
- Students between 18 and 25 years old
- Students over 25 years old and studying an undergraduate or graduate degree in the arts (Spanish Education System)
- People with a disability level equal to or greater than 33%
- Legally unemployed people
- Active teaching staff
- Large families with at least one adult and three children, or two children if one has a disability
- Official Tour Guides, journalists, members of FAMP (Friends of the Museum), APME (Professional Association of Museologists of Spain), ANABAD (Spanish Federation of Archivist, Librarian, Archaeologist, Museologist and Documentalist Associations), AEM (Spanish Association of Museologists), ICOM (International Council of Museums), members of the Spanish Royal Academy of History, members of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, members of the Royal Spanish Academy, and staff of the Spanish State Museums.
North entrance of the Prado Museum, with the monument of 19th-century court painter Francisco Goya in the foreground
Otherwise, you pay €15 for general admission or €7.50 for reduced admission.
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Images
> Featured image (GUIDEPOST collage): Prado exhibition hall/losmininos, CC BY2.0. Tickets/igorovsyannykov, Pixabay, edited.
> Night scene/ah64dka52, Pixabay. Text supplied.
> Prado Museum north entrance/Jean-Pierre Dalberá, Wikipedia
