Museum Cerralbo

Madrid, Spain

The Museum Cerralbo houses the art and historical objects collections of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, Marquis of Cerralbo, who died in 1922.

The museum, which is housed in the former residence of its founder, opened in 1944. The building was built in the 19th century, according to Italian taste, and it was luxuriously decorated with baroque furniture, wall paintings and expensive chandeliers. It retains to a large extent its original aesthetics.

The museum features an interesting collection of paintings, archaeology and furniture, including works by Jacopo Tintoretto, Jacopo Palma the Younger, El Greco, Ludovico Carracci, Alonso Cano, Zurbarán, Luis Paret and many more.

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Founded: 1944
Category: Museums in Spain

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Fabian Kleiser (3 months ago)
Beautiful palace and must visit during a stay in Madrid. Be there early and prepare for waiting a long time before you can enter as only ~40 people are allowed inside at the same time. But definitely worth the wait!
Anthony LaCasella (5 months ago)
A great value at just three euros!!!. Better to go early. Line can get kind of annoying and slow. You could see it all in about an hour and a half. Easy.
LUISA MARÍA NUÑEZ SALGUERO (6 months ago)
I went on the free hours on Thursday. I would recommend to get there at least an hour earlier because the line gets long! I got around 40 minutes early than the opening hour and had to wait for at least 40 min after the opening hour to get in. They didn’t had the whole thing open bc there was not much staff. The only thing is the staff were pretty rude, I don’t know if there were having a bad day, but if you don’t want to be screamed at take in mind theres rugs you are supposed to follow an don’t put a cm of your foot out of it, most of the tour has a sequence so you can not freely see what you have in front they make you go all the way to up in the hall and then when you come back you can see (I got screamed about that), mind you there’s nothing to let you know you have to follow an exact route (only them screaming at you often. IT’S NOT HERE, GO OVER THERE FIRST). I mean it’s my first time here and theres no introduction before hand, how I’m supposed to know, pretty mean staff unfortunately. But the installation it’s incredible you have to see it with your own eyes.
Akil Mayet (7 months ago)
Great value for money. A very long wait to enter but just pay €3 for such a magnificent house is amazing. I recommend going on a weekday though as I went on a weekend and the queues were massive to get in. I waited around 75 mins to enter
prollygg (8 months ago)
The place was absolutely gorgeous and everyone working there as well. Except the lady working near the library room yesterday. I feel that she was being "extra careful" with the poc walking through the rooms and hence very politely told me to only step on the red carpet and kept glaring at me. Whereas there was a white couple in the same room stepping off the red carpte multiple times and guess what nothing ^_^. I think she was being extra careful. I felt that it is very important to point such things out instead of ignoring it. Other than that, it was a very nice experience. ?
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