Going to the Sorolla Museum right now costs you a morning. The museum states that it is temporarily closed to the public for extension and rehabilitation works on the house, with no alternative venue and no reduced timetable. When it is open it runs on the shared regime of Madrid’s eight state museums: 3 € general, 1.50 € reduced, free on Saturdays from 2pm to 8pm and Sundays from 10am to 3pm, closed every Monday.
Is the Sorolla Museum in Madrid open? No. It is temporarily closed for extension and rehabilitation works on the house museum, according to the museum itself. Its usual ticket is 3 €, or 1.50 € reduced, free on Saturdays from 2pm and Sundays 10am to 3pm, and it closes every Monday.
The Sorolla Museum is the Madrid house and studio of the painter Joaquín Sorolla, run directly by the Ministry of Culture as one of the state museums. What is happening now is not a change of hours but a closure for building work, so the ticket and free-window information in circulation describes a regime nobody can currently use.
What you can still see
The collection has not vanished from the map, even though the house cannot be visited.
Works from the collection travel to temporary exhibitions at other venues under the museum’s touring programme, and the museum publishes a virtual tour of the house and of its recent exhibitions. What does not exist during the works is a physical visit to the house or the garden.
Seven alternatives at the same price
The other state museums share the tariff and the calendar, so swapping does not change the budget.
The Cerralbo Museum and the Museum of Romanticism are also house museums built from private collections, and the National Archaeological Museum is the largest of the eight. All charge 3 € and open free on the same weekend pattern, set out in Madrid state museums at 3 €. For a free-entry plan the full picture is in free museums in Madrid.
The hours it will return to
Worth keeping to hand, because they are what applies on the day it reopens.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Free entry | Saturdays 2pm to 8pm, Sundays 10am to 3pm |
| Reduced ticket | 1.50 € |
| General ticket | 3 € |
| Weekly closure | Every Monday of the year |
| Sundays and holidays | 10am to 3pm |
| Tuesday to Saturday | 9.30am to 8pm |
The Sunday window is the shortest of the week, five hours against ten and a half on a weekday.
Where it is and how to reach it
The house sits in the Chamberí district, which carries no reinforced traffic restriction.
Chamberí is not a special-protection zone, so an emissions label is enough, in the Chamberí district guide and driving into Madrid’s low emission zones. On public transport the whole municipality is fare zone A, with a metro single at €1.50 to €2.00, in what a Madrid metro ticket costs.
Frequently asked questions about the Sorolla Museum
Is the Sorolla Museum open?
No. The museum states that it is temporarily closed to the public for extension and rehabilitation works on the house. There is no alternative venue or reduced timetable, so it is worth checking before making the journey.
Can you see the collection anywhere while it is shut?
Partly. Works from the collection travel to temporary exhibitions at other venues under a touring programme, and the museum offers a virtual tour of the house. The house and garden themselves cannot be visited during the works.
What does the Sorolla Museum cost?
3 € general and 1.50 € reduced, the same rate shared by the eight directly run state museums in Madrid. The Ministry of Culture sets that figure for all of them together rather than museum by museum.
When is the Sorolla Museum free?
Under its normal regime, Saturdays from 2pm to 8pm and Sundays from 10am to 3pm, with no nationality check and no booking. It is the same free-entry calendar the eight state museums all apply.
What are the usual opening hours?
Tuesday to Saturday from 9.30am to 8pm, and Sundays and public holidays from 10am to 3pm. It closes every Monday of the year, and the Sunday window is the shortest of the week at five hours against ten and a half on weekdays.
The hours and the ticket price are still published, and right now they describe a museum nobody can enter.