Retiro Park Galleries

Palacio de Cristal and Palacio de Velázquez

The Museo Reina Sofía galleries in the Retiro Park are closed temporarily for architectural renovations. However, you can visit the installation that covers the Palacio de Cristal.

Palacio de Cristal

On foot: less than thirty minutes from the Museo Reina Sofía’s main site, a ten-minute walk from the Puerta de Alcalá and seven from Avenida Menéndez Pelayo. By metro: Retiro (line 2), Ibiza (line 9), Estación del Arte (line 1). Arriving by bus.

Palacio de Cristal con una lona de Miguel Ángel Tornero
Palacio de Cristal con una lona de Miguel Ángel Tornero

Palacio de Velázquez

On foot: less than thirty minutes from the Museo Reina Sofía’s main site, a ten-minute walk from the Puerta de Alcalá and seven from Avenida Menéndez Pelayo. By metro: Retiro (line 2), Ibiza (line 9), Estación del Arte (line 1). Arriving by bus.

Vista de la fachada del Palacio de Velázquez

Museo

The Museo Reina Sofía’s two sites in the Retiro Park were designed and realised at the end of the nineteenth century as exhibition spaces for the universal exhibitions, a purpose which remains today.

La Ilustración  Española y Americana, year XXVII, No. 21. Madrid, 8 June 1883

Museo

View of the façade of the Sabatini Building