The number of visitors to the Museo Reina Sofía’s main site increases by more than 4% in 2025

• In 2025, 1,601,732 visitors walked through the doors of the Museo’s main site, almost 65,000 more people than in 2024, representing a 4.2% increase. 

• “We’re sure this momentum will continue when the new floor to the Collections opens in February and with the re-opening of the Palacio de Velázquez by the summer”, Museo Reina Sofía director, Manuel Segade, asserted.

  Attendance to the Museo’s Public Programmes activities also rose by 7.5% and Education activities by 39%. 

   

In 2025 the Museo Reina Sofía’s main site welcomed a total of 1,601,732 visitors through its doors, a 4.2% increase from 2024, when it received 1,537,105, a difference of 64,627 people. These figures are noteworthy given that the Museo’s two galleries in the Retiro Park were closed in 2025 due to restoration work being carried out on both — the Palacio de Cristal closed its doors in April 2023, the Palacio de Velázquez on 2 September 2024. “It’s great to see the systematic growth of visitors to the Reina’s main sites, particularly when the two Palacios in the Retiro are closed while work is being carried out on the buildings. We’re sure this momentum will continue when the new floor to the Collections opens in February and with the re-opening of the Palacio de Velázquez by the summer”, Manuel Segade, director of the Museo, stressed. 

In 2025, moreover, 66,276 people participated in the activities the Reina Sofía organised, while 38,784 Library members made us of its services, a higher number than the previous year, and totalling 1,706,792 visitors when combined with visits to the main site. Of note is the number of people in 2025 who participated in the Museo’s Education activities, denoting a 39% increase via activities such as Maruja Mallo Constellation, Collection 45’, Lost Steps. Another History of Surrealism and Rethinking Guernica. 

Furthermore, revenue from ticket sales reached almost eight million euros (€7,855,677), up 3.4% from the previous year. Other significant data includes 62% of visitors accessing the main site free of charge during free admission times (Monday, and Wednesday to Saturday from 7pm to 9pm, and Sunday from 12:30pm to 14:30pm), or through set discounts (under 18s and the over 65s, students, people with disabilities, people claiming unemployment benefits…) — 607,164 visitors belonged to these collectives and 387,907 accessed during free admission times.       

March, April and October were the busiest months of the year and Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays the busiest days, with almost 17% of visits occurring after 7pm, when free access begins. The final opening day of the year, Monday, 29 December, was the year’s busiest as the Museo welcomed a record 12,380 visitors. 

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