I enjoyed everything about this museum! It's so well curated and organized beautifully! Admission…read moreis free on Sundays. I went when it was nice and quiet, there were only a few people in the museum. They have stunning pieces from different decades and interesting props to make the clothes pop more in the showcases. My only downside was this museum was very dark. However, I think this is necessary for the preservation of the fabrics. The grounds are beautiful as well and they have a nice cafe where you can have a bite to eat. This place makes for a nice day out to a lesser known museum in Madrid!

Everyone has different opinions right? Well for me, I very much enjoyed this museum…read more First things first: - Yes you can indeed finish this museum in 10 minutes. It's one floor, one circle. - hey, did you know that you can see this entire museum on their website? You can take "a virtual tour" and walk through the entire museum. - so it's free online! - it's free Sundays. It's free Saturdays after 2:30pm - it's also free on certain days, like World Heritage Day (April 18, 2015, which was when I visited) okay that's actually a million things first. ========= Here's why I enjoyed it ========= The museum kept true to the Spanish culture and history. Sure, France and Italy started much of the country's fashion influences, the museum emphasizes on the SPANISH history -how they dressed, how they were influenced, what they kept from the Spanish ancestors, what they added from the French, etc. The museum organizes its collection from earliest to today's fashion (2015). It's like a history book with lots of pictures!! I love history books with lots of pictures!! (because I fall asleep reading textbooks) The museum included old furniture and accessories relating to dressing, ex. mirrors, drawers, even fashion dolls. Fun fact: how did fashion magazines start? Fashion designers created mini mannequins with beautiful clothes and sent them to the rich people. By mannequin, I'm talking about vintage dollies. With vintage clothing on. This was what the rich people received as their "catalog"!!! The poor people received sketches and papers. Well... the rich people ALSO received these papers. So as more catalogs and sketches were produced, and more people want to know what other people were wearing, and they wanted to know what people in other countries were wearing.... these fashion sketches became very popular. Fashion sketches became fashion magazines. What happened to men fashion??? Well men were into business and etc. so they just dressed professionally (and blandly). Women need to look good. The more extravagant they look, the richer the husband pretends to be. And all of this I learned here at the museum because the information is bilingual!! Yay!!! There are leaflets in each section/room that tells you the name and dates of what you're looking at. Eventually the dates look like numbers (uhhhh 1930s.. 1920s...) to me. But for the first half of the museum, I was like, "ZOMG THIS IS ##### YEARS AGO!" For the 10 minutes that most people could finish this museum, I stayed here for 2 hours reading every single (English) description. Like a book. ========= So it's up to you ========= I like learning about how we evolved from day 0 to year 2015. So this was a great museum, I loved it to bits. I couldn't work their old computers though, it's all in Spanish and the rolling ball mouse is weird. ========= Atmosphere and venue ========= I visited on the Saturday morning and it was very quiet. There was a tour group ahead of me, but they weren't loud. A security person patrols these rooms very often. During my visit, there was an exhibition!!! An exhibition of old printed fabrics, very elegant. The exhibition room is very small. Hopefully your visit features an exhibition too! The museum is located in a quiet area with trees and nature and this small body of water. So it was a peaceful Saturday morning for me, thank goodness. Can't deal with crowds. The museum is comfortable to walk around in, it's dark (to preserve the fabrics), but spacious. Neatly displayed and never overwhelming. I hate when museums display the artifacts like, "Ha, look at me! Look at all these things I have!!" and it's mess!! Not this museum :) so I'm happy I visited.

If you've been to Madrid a few times already you may be interested in checking out this lesser…read moreknown museum. While it may not have the abundance of show stopping masterpieces of the Prado, Reina Sofia or Thyssen, it like the latter is a former private collection which is fascinating of itself as you marvel at how one person chose/accumulated all these works. Unlike the Thyssen, there is a lot here besides paintings, including textiles, pottery, ceramics, bronzes, silverware... The information about Galdiano's life is also impressive - how did he find time to buy ALL that art as well as founding a publishing house, being a banker, journalist etc etc. I popped in for about two hours on a Friday from around 1.15pm and the museum was basically deserted so it was very cool to have the place to myself (plus the docents awkwardly checking that I wasn't breaking or stealing anything). Admission is only 6 euros so do check it out and then walk back down high fashion the Calle de Serrano afterwards!

Jose Lazaro Galdiano was a publishing millionaire who left his private art collection to the…read moreSpanish state in 1942. His palatial home has been converted into a wonderful museum. Many of the rooms have richly decorated ceilings. The collection is vast but the museum retains a small intimate atmosphere. There are collections of jewelery, armour, items from ancient Greece and Rome, porcelain, coins, furniture, textiles and, of course, wonderful paintings. Goya, el Greco, Bosch and Constable amongst them. Most of the rooms also had handy information sheets in various languages, including English. Well worth a visit!

Nice design museum…read more Small so very quick visit. Free so right price for a cool museum

This is one of the coolest museums I've ever been in. You're transported back in time, and I am…read moreobsessed with all the clocks, settees, and poufs all over. The colors. The colors!!!!!! I need an emerald green couch now STAT. I'm obsessed. There's no other word for it. My colleague told me to go here and I'm soooo glad she did or I'd have missed out on seeing all this amazing furniture. You think you're on a Bridgerton set, I swear. It's a smaller museum and takes about an hour, if was only a 3€ admission too, and it's so so so worth it! Go go go go go!

Pleasant little museum worth an hour visit in a historic restored house on beautiful grounds…read more Paintings and artifats from late Rennaisance to Victorian Age, its focus is on the Romantic Period, hence the name. It's much easier than the Golden Triangle of Madrid art museums, so it's good on an afternoon jaunt into the Chambri area where you'll find the Madrid history museum right nearby, the Mercado Barcelo and other shops, cafes, restaurants so you can make a whole afternoon of it. Not too from here are the Sorollo museum, the Real Madrid stadium, and a few (!) Michelin star restaurants. This museum is right off the Tribunal metro stop. If you're staying nearby, like at Hotel Saldinero, well then you really should stop by and take a gander. Don't miss the big doll house with the tiny dancer holograms.

This is a smaller museum, but it's got a good amount of exhibits to check out. It's well organized…read moreand offers multiple floors and rooms to explore. As far as natural history museums go, it's got everything you'd expect. You'll be able to see exhibits of mammals, birds, amphibians . . . you know, all things natural. I enjoyed walking around, and recommend checking it out if you have an hour or so to spare in Madrid. Also, they offer free admission for teachers.

25 Euros for two adults and one child - some but not all exhibits are in English. Tickets are…read moreconfusing - multiple unconnected buildings - go to the Evolution building to start. Many stuffed insects and animals. We saw the whole museum in 60 minutes.

I love history and museums. However, I am not a huge fan of prehistory. I can't get fully onboard…read morewith the objectivity of such subjective items. Nevertheless, this was a good experience and our tour guide made it even better. The museum is packed with objects, most of which are authentic and not replicas. There are even some objects that are on display that are known fakes. There story behind them and how the museum acquired such objects is interesting. The best part was the digital display that overlays a topographical map of the Iberian peninsula. It tells the story of the Iberian migration of peoples over the centuries. Overall, not a bad museum, kind of boring in some areas but still a good experience.

One of the finest archeology museums anywhere. Every artificact here is from the Iberian…read morepenninsula or excavated by Spanish Archeologists. Good explanations from either physical or cultural anthropology, very up to date information on the evolution of humans. The descriptions and explanations are truly excellent. If you start downstairs you can work your way up in time from milliions of years ago to early modernity. Check for free concerts and lectures, I saw an interesting and talented saxophone quartet in the evening.

What a gorgeous space in the middle of the park! And they have free art exhibits everyday. There's…read morean impressive modernism exhibit going on right now by some well-known Spanish painters; I'd seriously love to purchase some of the paintings if I were a bazillionaire.

not sure why this is called the "palacio de velazquez" as it's more of an exhibition hall/museum…read morefilled with works of spanish art. it is more of a temporary collection of works as they frequently rotate artists whose work is on display. when i visited, they had works that reflected american culture, as most of the subjects were african-americans in harlem, a neighborhood in new york city. this was not one of my favourite museums to visit in madrid, since i'd prefer to see works based in spain, or europe at least, since i live in the states and have easy access to works based in america. once again, another free museum and you can easily see everything in about 30 minutes.