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Museo Cerralbo

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Museo Cerralbo is a Spanish national art and period house museum in the marquis’s former palace at Calle Ventura Rodríguez 17, Madrid.

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Why go

  • The main floor preserves nearly all its original decoration, a rare survival among Madrid’s 19th-century palaces.
  • More than 50,000 objects include paintings, sculpture, furniture and decorative arts.
  • Paintings by El Greco, Zurbarán, Tintoretto and Van Dyck are part of the collection.
  • The palace garden follows the marquis’s sketches and evokes English romantic gardens.

Opening hours

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MondayClosed
Tuesday09:30 – 15:00
Wednesday09:30 – 15:00
Thursday09:30 – 15:00, 17:00 – 20:00
Friday09:30 – 15:00
Saturday09:30 – 15:00
Sunday10:00 – 15:00

Don't miss

  • BallroomLook up at Máximo Juderías Caballero’s painted ceiling. Notice the Murano lamps, Venetian mirrors and monumental clock with concealed workings.Ballroom
  • Alejandro de Médici portraitLook for the Italian portrait attributed to Bronzino and his workshop.
  • French and English clocksLook for clocks dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Know before you go

  • Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 09:30–15:00.
  • Thursday: 09:30–15:00 and 17:00–20:00.
  • Sunday: 10:00–15:00.

What's inside

  • The archaeology collection spans Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Egyptian and Iberian Peninsula objects. Coins make up much of the section.
  • Decorative arts include porcelain, pottery, tapestries, carpets and jewellery.
  • The Asian art collection is chiefly Chinese and Japanese.

Interesting facts5

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  1. The ballroom has a balcony-shaped gallery for musicians.

    Museo Cerralbo - Wikipedia

  2. Two stone masks in the collection came from Puerto Rico.

    Cerralbo Museum - Wikipedia

  3. Nearly half of the paintings are by Spanish artists.

    Museo Cerralbo - Wikipedia

  4. The marquis favored Spanish and Italian works, especially religious paintings and portraits.

    Cerralbo Museum - Wikipedia

  5. His wife Inocencia Serrano y Cerver and children Antonio and Amelia helped build the collection.

    Museo Cerralbo - Wikipedia

Shorts

History

Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, assembled the collection. A historian and supporter of archaeological excavations, he conceived the palace chiefly as a gallery and a venue for parties and visitors. Part of the collection went to the National Archaeological Museum, while the rest remained in the palace.

  1. 1883–1893The palace was built in stages by Alejandro Sureda, Luis Cabello Asó and Luis Cabello Lapiedra.
  2. 1893The Marquis opened the palace as a private gallery.
  3. 1924The State accepted the bequest of the palace and collection. The building opened to students and researchers.
  4. 1944The palace opened as a museum.
  5. 1962The palace was designated a historic-artistic monument.

Sources: Cerralbo Museum - Wikipedia · Museo Cerralbo - Wikipedia · Musée Cerralbo - Wikipedia · checked 29 Sep 2026

Where
C/ Ventura Rodríguez, 17, Madrid

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Questions and answers

Whose collections are displayed at Museo Cerralbo?

Objects come from the personal collections of the Marquis of Cerralbo and the Marquise of Villa-Huerta.

How many objects does Museo Cerralbo hold?

The museum holds more than 50,000 objects, including furniture, decorative arts, drawings, prints and paintings.

Has Museo Cerralbo undergone modernization?

It closed for four years during modernization works from summer 2006 to December 2010.

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