Night at the Museums?

The Prado Museum, in its desire to continue reaching out to all audiences and offer new arguments to encourage visits, resumes the initiative: “The Prado at night”, which in 2023 received more than 10,200 visitors.

With the collaboration of the Community of Madrid and Samsung, the museum opens different exhibition spaces free of charge on the first Saturday of each month, from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., in a program that aims to extend knowledge of the institution of sequenced manner. There will be different musical initiatives and the possibility of discovering some of the experiences that Samsung and the Museum have created over 10 years of collaboration, such as the Dolphin Treasure or the development of the Prado Guide App, among others.

The first opening night, on March 2, REVERSOS, the most ambitious exhibition of those carried out so far around the B side of the paintings, a few hours before its closing, European painting of the Renaissance and the rooms dedicated to collection from the 19th century will be the protagonists of this experience that will once again feature Radio 3 as a key ally in the revitalization of the visit.

(Translation of the original text from the Prado Museum website: https://www.museodelprado.es/recurso/el-prado-de-noche-2024/ee1fe252-5145-4374-a010-6bb0d2916ce8)

You will enter through the Jerónimos door, and it will be open and free until capacity is reached and the last access will be at 11:00 p.m. During this special opening of the museum, the cafeteria service will also be open. 

And in case you are interested in similar initiatives, here is another idea: The Thyssen Museum will open on Saturdays from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. to visit its temporary exhibitions for free https://www.museothyssen.org/en/ support/corporate-support/saturdaysuniqlo

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