museums I had an experience Increase in visitors in 2023 This reinforces participation in mainstream art galleries and in some cases records have even been produced as National Heritage monuments. Exceeded historical data with more than six million people.
HE Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum announced this Tuesday that it received more than a million visits for the seventh year in a row, specifically 1,012,660.
60.9% of Thyssen visitors are of national origin (40.3% of visitors are from Madrid and 20.6% are from the rest of Spain) and 39.1% are of international origin.
Visits to the permanent collection increased by 17.6%, from 608,356 in 2022 to 715,395 in 2023, with the most viewed exhibitions being ‘Lucian Freud’. New perspectives’ (180.014); ‘In the eye of the hurricane. ‘Avant-garde in Ukraine, 1900-1930’ (158.241) and ‘Picasso. ‘Holy and profane’ (117.200).
In his name, Reina Sofia Museum Received 2,530,560 visitors In 2023, 1,409,113 of them correspond to the main center, which represents a 20% increase compared to 2022.
As for the headquarters of Retiro Park in Madrid, crystal palaceVelázquez Palace, which has been closed since April for improvement works in its facilities, hosted 479,281 visitors in 2023 (1,318,823 in 2022), and Velázquez Palace hosted 536,425 (491,086 in 2022) visitors.
All this meant: 29% increase in collections Regarding 2022.
National Heritage highlights historical record of visits 6,370,770 peopleThe most visited monuments include the Royal Palace (1,421,428), the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (445,166) and the Gallery of the Royal Collections, which in its only six months of existence ranked third after 336,058 visits. .
when it comes green areasThe historic gardens of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez in Madrid (1,224,545 visitors), the Royal Palace (469,746) and the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso in Segovia (449,471) stand out.
HE Guggenheim Bilbao admits it had the “best year in its history” Thanks to 1,324,221 visitors (35,074 more than in 2022).
The museum has recovered its pre-pandemic level of foreign visitors, achieving 60% of the global number (10% more than in 2022).
The most visited exhibitions were ‘Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to present’, ‘Oskar Kokoschka’. A Vienna Rebel and ‘Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’.
‘la Caixa’ Foundation experienced an overall increase in visitor numbers13.19%, which corresponds to 8.1 million people in 2023 at CaixaForum centers and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum, as well as traveling exhibitions supported by the foundation.
The CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona broke the historic public record with 1,266,989 visitors; It is followed by CaixaForum València with 899,339 visitors and CaixaForum Madrid with 655,422 visitors.
Mapfre Foundation increased the number of visitors to its headquarters in Madrid and Barcelona by 67% compared to 2022, by 344,627 people.
Seven of the 13 exhibitions held at Mapfre were held in Madrid with a total attendance of 276,446, and six were held in Barcelona with a total attendance of 68,181. The most visited of these was that of the versatile painter, writer and sculptor “Leonora Carrington. Revelation”.
A few days ago, Prado Museum He also emphasized that throughout 2023, the museum received a record number of visitors with a total of 3,209,285, a figure that exceeded the figure reached in 2019, the year of the two-year celebration.