Located in the elegant Prado Boulevard, Thyssen is one of the three museums of our “Golden Triangle of Art” that also includes Prado and Reina Sofia Museums.

Our licensed guide will take you along this splendid collection of almost one thousand works on display and you will admire the major periods and schools of western art, from the Renaissance through Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Romanticism and the art of the 19th and 20th centuries to Pop Art. 

The museum also features works from some movements that are under-represented in state-owned collections, such as Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism and the experimental avant-garde movements of the early 20th century. It also boasts an important collection of 19th-century American painting which is unique among European museums.

This international collection, which is now state-owned, was originally private, the result of the exquisite taste of its two main creators, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875-1947) and his son, Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921-2002). In 2004 the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection was added, with more than 200 pieces on loan, complementing the styles and genres already present in the Permanent Collection.