Exhibitions in Madrid, a city full of art and innovation, are one of the central pillars of its wide cultural offer. From renowned museums to independent art galleries, as well as other less conventional exhibition spaces, the possibilities in terms of exhibitions -in this case, for the month of July- are practically endless.
That’s why every month we make a selection of the must-see exhibitions you can’t miss in Madrid. Photography, painting, contemporary art, sensory and immersive experiences? There is so much to choose from and so much to discover.
1. The memory. Emotional journey through the comics of Paco Roca
In this free exhibition by the Valencian cartoonist, individual and collective memory is intertwined between personal and family stories that ultimately make up the history of a country. Surrounded by the ochre and earth tones so characteristic of the artist’s palette, visitors will discover not only original drawings, sketches and vignettes, but also reference objects and photographs that have shaped Roca’s personal and emotional universe.
📍Location: Instituto Cervantes (Calle Alcalá, 49)
🗓️ Dates: until September 28, 2025
2. Alice’s Worlds
A Victorian cultural phenomenon. That’s what Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has become, the story by Lewis Carroll that over the course of its 160 years has inspired everything from film adaptations to creations in fields such as fashion, theater, photography and science. This exhibition, in collaboration with the V&A Museum in London, is the first to address the impact of this work in all its breadth and vindicates the relevance of this character that is part of the collective imagination of several generations.
📍Location: CaixaForum Madrid (Paseo del Prado, 36)
🗓️ Dates: April 4 to August 3, 2025
3. Suggestions of Italy. From neorealism to the 21st century. The gaze of 13 photographers
A choral portrait of Italy that spans from the post-war period after World War II to the first years after 2000. The exhibition, part of PHotoESPAÑA 2025, brings together more than 60 images, both in black and white and in color, which explore the landscape and the cities of the Italian peninsula, but also the human and social dimension of these places.
The snapshots are signed by photographers such as Nino Migliori, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Enzo Obiso, Mario Giacomelli, Ferdinando Scianna, Bruna Biamino and Ugo Mula.
📍Location: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Madrid (Calle Mayor, 86)
🗓️ Dates: May 23 to September 13, 2025
4. Learning in Disobedience
The museum gathers a selection of around 50 collages made by filmmaker Isabel Coixet. In them she invites viewers, in a similar way as she does in her films, to recompose stories based on fragments: in this case, using images, photographs and text as raw material.
🗓️ Dates: June 10 to September 14, 2025
📍Location: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (paseo del Prado, 8)
5. Museum of Happiness
From laughter machines to walls where you can share with others the things that make you happy. The Museum of Happiness (MüF) is 20 immersive experiences in one where you can not only know but also experience everything that has to do with happiness throughout its different rooms: a space to de-stress, a magic show and even a hugometer.
🗓️ Dates:all month long
📍Location: Ronda de Valencia, 8 (next to the Casa Encendida).
6. Tomorrowland: an immersive exhibition
More than an exhibition, the Tomorrowland Immersive Experience is a universe of its own, alive, of pure imagination. It is a large installation (in the Crystal Room of the WiZink Center) that pays homage to the Tomorrowland festival. All through cutting-edge technology and digital art installations. The goal is to know the essence of the Belgian festival (relaxed atmosphere, pure twinning, respect …) but also the artistic work that each year develops the event team. Pure creativity, art, light, color, magic: the worlds of Tomorrowland change from year to year and you can enjoy them in this immersive exhibition all month long.
🗓️ Dates: Monday to Friday from 5.30pm. Saturdays and Sundays from 10am. Special opening hours on holidays and Christmas.
📍 Location: Crystal Room of WiZink Center: Calle Fuente del Berro 50, Puerta 50 Avenida de Felipe, II (Salamanca).
💸 Admission: from 18,50€. Special prices for children, families and groups.
7. Alma de cántaro
The Museo Casa Natal de Cervantes (Calle Mayor, 48) in Alcalá de Henares hosts this exhibition, which highlights the popular pottery of La Mancha that gave rise to everyday objects such as pitchers, colaores, pots, botijos or mortars that could be found in the houses of Cervantes’ time: the Golden Age.
📍Location: Cervantes Birthplace Museum (Calle Mayor, 48)
🗓️ Dates: until September 21, 2025
8. Banksy Museum
After leaving his mark in Barcelona, now opens a second branch of the Banksy Museum in Madrid. Located very close to the Acacias subway stop, this new Madrid museum hosts a permanent exhibition with more than 170 replicas of Banksy’s most iconic works, such as Banksy’s Rage, the flower thrower or the girl with the red balloon. This space serves as a tribute to the figure of one of the most prestigious street art artists in the world.
🗓️ Dates:every day from 10:00 to 20:00 (last access at 19:15).
📍Location:paseo de la Esperanza, 1 (Arganzuela)
9. Bodies
Something unknown to many is what lies beneath the skin. We can learn a lot from an anatomy book, but there is nothing like seeing it with our own eyes. This is Bodies, a surprising exhibition that brings to the Rivas Centro Shopping Center 8 complete bodies and hundreds of organs preserved thanks to the plastination technique.
📍Location: Plaza de la Constitución, 2(Rivas Centro Shopping Center, Rivas-Vaciamadrid)
💸 Tickets: from 12€.
10. Jurassic World: The Experience
A life-size tyrannosaurus that roars; a velociraptor that hides, defiantly, behind a large electrified wall; a cute “baby dino”… All this is part of Jurassic World: The Experience, that is, the official exhibition of the mythical (and Jurassic) film universe. In addition, we will find scenarios of the films, a laboratory where geneticists will explain everything about these incredible beings and nostalgia, yes, nostalgia, of a film like Jurassic Park that marked so many generations.
📍Location:paseo de las Delicias, 61 (Delicias, Arganzuela)
🗓️ Dates: until July 20, 2025
Tickets: starting at 22€.
11. Group exhibition: embroidery on photography
The textile artist Lorena Olmedo, specialized in embroidery on photography, organizes one more year her traditional collective exhibition. In it, to close the course, she brings together a selection of the best works of the students of her embroidery workshop. A space that supposes “a weekly respite that allows them to forget the worries and focus on art”.
📍Location: La vida tiene sentidos (Ave María street, 20. Lavapiés).
🗓️ Dates: from June 5 until the end of the month.
12. Madrid metropolis. The dream of Antonio Palacios
One of the most emblematic buildings of Antonio Palacios, the Palacio de Cibeles, hosts the exhibition that pays tribute to him. The exhibition not only deals in depth with his four major works in the capital – the aforementioned palace, the Hospital de Jornaleros, the Banco Español del Río de la Plata and the Círculo de Bellas Artes – but also, more broadly, delves into the concept of the modern metropolis that the Galician architect imagined and designed for Madrid.
🗓️ Dates: until July 6, 2025
📍Location: CentroCentro (Plaza de Cibeles, 1)
13. Sweet Space
10 interactive themed rooms and a world of sweets and color to discover. That is the bet of Sweet Space: to offer an immersive experience that involves all the senses, especially taste. A sense that you can put to the test, for example, in its ice cream laboratory. The different scenarios of the tour have been designed by artists of the stature of Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada to create a unique world and, without a doubt, instagrammable.
🗓️ Choose date when buying your ticket
📍Location: ABC Serrano (Serrano Street, 61)
14. Antoni Muntadas. About/About Asia
How much of what we know -or think we know- about Asia is true and how much is a preconceived image? Although aware that the way we look at the continent will always be outsider, Muntadas presents here -with the honesty of knowing that we cannot cover everything- the work of his research on China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines based on everyday objects such as shawls or fortune cookies and on some concepts on which he has reflected extensively.
🗓️ Dates: until September 28, 2025
📍Location: Mint Museum (Doctor Esquerdo Street, 36)
15. Flamboyant
If you are looking for a surprising exhibition, Palacio de Liria is hosting from this month Flamboyant, which brings together a hundred striking works by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. Pieces that are out of the molds of the expected and the usual to give rise, for example, to two large lions made of crochet, or imposing sculptures of large dimensions.
📍Location:Calle de la Princesa, 20
🗓️ Dates: February 14 to July 31, 2025
16. Philip’s daughters. Things considered as small things
The intimacy, education, leisure or sentimentality of 19th century bourgeois women are reflected in this exhibition in which domestic chores are taken as a starting point to make a rereading of them by the hand of Las Hijas de Felipe. Often underestimated or directly unnoticed, these productions range from embroidery to drawing, daguerreotype, hair, shells or flower applications.
📍Location: Museum of Romanticism (San Mateo Street, 13)
🗓️ Dates: until September 21, 2025
17. Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)
With this exhibition, the Museo del Prado closes the exhibition cycle dedicated to Venetian Renaissance painting that began in 2001 and in which Bassano, Titian, Tintoretto and Lotto have already been protagonists. And it does so in style, bringing together for the occasion more than 100 works from the best museums in the world: the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery in London, the Galleria degli Uffizi and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
With this monographic exhibition -the first one dedicated to him in Spain- the gallery highlights the legacy of an artist whose pictorial intelligence, the breadth of his aesthetic and cultural references and his ability to capture in images the “myth of Venice” stand out.
🗓️ Dates: from May 27 to September 21, 2025.
📍Location: Jerónimos Building (Calle Felipe IV, s/n).
18. Barjola, an apocryphal portrait
More than 30 works make up one of the most groundbreaking exhibitions on the list: the one that the SOLO Collection dedicates to Juan Barjola, an artist who knew how to be ahead of his time and who, precisely for that reason, is still considered today to be of great relevance. His pieces dialogue in this exhibition with those of more than 20 international artists ranging from Francis Bacon to David Lynch.
🗓️ Dates: until the end of the year
📍Location: Plaza de la Independencia, 15
19. Roots. One Hundred Years of the Regional Costume Exhibition
The Museo del Traje celebrates 100 years of its collections with an exhibition that delves into the universe of traditional clothing, understanding it not only as something ornamental, but as a fundamental piece of our culture and identity. Among the pieces that compose it there are not only historical costumes, but also reinterpretations of this folklore in the twentieth century or photographs.
📍Location: Museo del Traje (avenida de Juan de Herrera, 2)
🗓️ Dates: May 21 to October 19, 2025
20. Sonia Navarro. Borders and territories
The traditional and the contemporary go hand in hand in the first institutional exhibition dedicated to Murcian artist Sonia Navarro. The show pays special attention to the use of materials in her work, because they are much more than that: behind them there is a discourse. Such as the feminist, through traditional crafts understood as a vehicle for women’s independence; or the climate, since the use of materials such as esparto grass or other waste materials prevent the desertification of the territory.
📍Location: Sala Alcalá (calle de Alcalá, 31)
🗓️ Dates: May 23 to July 6, 2025
21. Graciela Iturbide. When the light speaks
Casa de México hosts this great photographic exhibition within the framework of PHotoESPAÑA of the brand-new winner of the Asturias Award for the Arts 2025 Graciela Iturbide, the first Mexican to win it. The exhibition brings together 115 works spanning 45 years of artistic career that show her very personal way of seeing the world and that oscillate between the real and the dreamlike.
📍Location: Casa de México en España (20, Alberto Aguilera St.)
🗓️ Dates: June 20 to September 14, 2025
22. Duane Michals. The photographer of the invisible
Included in the official section of PHotoEspaña 2025, this exhibition is a retrospective of more than five decades of the career of photographer Duane Michals, a key figure of the American avant-garde. His work has been decisive in renewing the photographic language since the 1960s, when he decided to capture in his photos “his thoughts instead of capturing scenes of reality”. It gathers 150 photographs, from 1964 to this year.
📍Location: Canal Isabel II Foundation (calle Mateo Inurria, 2)
🗓️ Dates: from May 28 to August 24, 2025
23. The Vollard Suite
The Vollard Suite, one of the most important series in contemporary art created by Picasso between 1930 and 1937, arrives at the Museo ICO in Madrid this month. The collection, which reflects the artist’s melancholy and inner conflict, is accompanied by works by other prominent 20th century Spanish artists such as Eduardo Arroyo and Juan Genovés. A unique opportunity to admire a complete masterpiece, where Picasso left cubism behind to explore classical techniques and Greek mythology.
📍Location: Museo ICO (Calle Zorrilla, 3)
🗓️ Dates:February 13 to July 20, 2025
24. Frida Kahlo: Live Art Experience and Gastronomic Exhibition
In collaboration with UN Women, this new Frida Kahlo experience in the city goes a step beyond what we conceive as an exhibition. Frida Kahlo: Live Art Experience and Gastronomic Show starts with an exhibition of unpublished photographs, continues with a room with letters selected by Pilar Sedano (curator of the Prado Museum) that reveal Kahlo’s most intimate side, and ends with a Live Art experience: interactive art installations with the presence of artists who will interact with the space and the attendees.
And there’s more: a supplement at the entrance will give you access to the gastronomic experience, a menu inspired by the wedding of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera that includes mezcal and tequila tasting.
📍Location: Paseo del Pintor Rosales, 30 (University)
🗓️ Dates: starting March 14, 2025
💸 Tickets : Live Art: 15€; Live Art + gastronomic experience: 60€..
25. Echoes of the Ocean
This is a free immersive exhibition that explores the importance of sound in marine ecosystems. The central installation, Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale, uses 12 screens to show how cetaceans perceive their environment through hearing. In addition, the exhibition includes a meditation room with whale and dolphin sounds, a blown glass sculptural installation that recreates the migration of plankton and rooms dedicated to bioacoustics. An experience to connect the visitor with empathy towards the marine world and environmental awareness.
📍Location: Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Calle de Fuencarral, 3).
🗓️ Dates: February 12to September 7, 2025
Masaveu Collection. 20th Century Spanish Art. From Picasso to Barceló
Dalí, Picasso, Miró and Laffón star in this free exhibition that brings together some of the most outstanding paintings and sculptures of the last century. Works by artists who influenced the course of art a century ago and that can now be seen by the public for the first time. They come from the Masaveu Collection, the FMCMP and the private collection of Fernando Masaveu.
🗓️ From October 9, 2024 to July 20, 2025
📍Location: María Cristina Masaveu Foundation (Alcalá Galiano, 6)
27. Carmen Martín Gaite and collage: a diary in freedom
This 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Carmen Martín Gaite -Carmiña- and, to pay tribute to her, this exhibition shows the public the collages of her work Visión de Nueva York, in which she used this technique to try to capture what she saw and experienced during a trip in which only words were too short for her.
📍Location: Casa del Lector de Matadero (Paseo de la Chopera, 14)
🗓️ Dates: until September 15, 2025 (August closed)
28. Latina: Women, Music and Glamour in the Gladys Palmera Collection
One of the most outstanding exhibitions opening this month is the one that shows the public part of the collection of the Spanish-Panamanian patron and communicator Alejandra Fierro Eleta, which with its more than 100,000 pieces is the most extensive in the world as far as Latin music is concerned. In the center, the figure of Latin women in the world of show business to rescue them from oblivion and vindicate their role in a world dominated by men.
📍Location: Casa de América (plaza de Cibeles, s/n)
🗓️ Dates: April 4 to July 5, 2025
29. Marisa Flórez. A Time to Look (1970-2020)
Five decades of career spread over the different floors of the Sala Canal Isabel II: this photographic exhibition, free of charge, brings together some of the most important social and political changes of our recent history through the eyes of Marisa Flórez. The pioneer photojournalist portrayed decisive moments and the faces that were the protagonists from a new perspective: always respecting the documentary nature of the images, but from a more intimate place that was unknown until now.
📍Location: Canal Isabel II Hall (Santa Engracia street, 125)
🗓️ Dates: May 14 to July 20, 2025
And if you prefer to see free exhibitions at night…
Temporary exhibitions at the Thyssen
The Thyssen is another of the museums that offers free night visits on weekends, specifically on Saturdays, to see its temporary exhibitions on the first floor and floor -1 at zero cost from 9pm to 11pm. Access is free until full capacity is reached and this initiative will continue throughout 2025. On the other hand, when there is no temporary exhibition on the ground floor, the Carmen Thyssen Collection will be open.
📍Location:Paseo del Prado, 8 (Cortes/Centro)
🗓️ Dates: every Saturday in 2025
Free nighttime visits to the Prado Museum
The El Prado by night initiative returns in 2025, offering free access to the museum’s temporary exhibitions at night. The first opening was on Saturday, February 1, from 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm, with exhibitions such as Shaking Hands. Sculpture and color in the Golden Age and Sigmar Polke. Affinities unveiled. In addition, attendees can enjoy live music by Radio 3 from the Muses room and other complementary activities such as a photocall, the opening of the Café Prado and the museum store.
📍Location:Paseo del Prado, s/n (Cortes/Centro)
🗓️ Dates: as of February 1, 2025