1. JAZZMADRID 2026
JAZZMADRID, the city council's jazz festival, runs for two months across theatres, clubs and cultural centres, with the official programme at the Teatro Fernán Gómez, CentroCentro and Condeduque. The 2026 line-up includes Kurt Elling with The Yellowjackets, Cécile McLorin Salvant and centenary tributes to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Venues change by concert, so check the listing for the date you want.
🚩 Music & Concerts
🏛️ JAZZMADRID (multiple venues)
🎟️ Varies by concert
📅 Until 30 November
⏰ Times vary by concert
2. The Island of Neverland
The Island of Neverland at Espacio Delicias opened on Thursday as a world premiere. Visitors first walk through a life-size Neverland of pirates and lost boys, then watch a theatre and acrobatics show in Spanish with aerial, trampwall and wire acts. The directors come from Balich Wonder Studio, behind 17 Olympic ceremonies, and each visitor picks a side, Tribe or Pirates. Babies up to 12 months enter free.
🚩 Shows & Dance
🏛️ Espacio Delicias (Paseo de las Delicias, 61)
🎟️ From €26.25
📅 Until 29 November
⏰ Thursday to Sunday, multiple showtimes
3. Tras la casa del artista, Museo Sorolla
Tras la casa del artista at the Museo Sorolla traces the painter's house from its construction in 1905 to the present, and marks the opening of the museum's new extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. Paintings, drawings, plans, letters and photographs show how Sorolla and the architect Enrique María Repullés designed a home for family life, work and entertaining. Only the new building on Calle Zurbano is open to visitors.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Museo Sorolla (Calle Zurbano, 68)
🎟️ Free
📅 15 October–10 January
⏰ Tue–Sat 09:30–20:00, Sun 10:00–15:00
4. Perrotón Nicka Run
The Perrotón Nicka Run is a charity run for owners and their dogs, and its 15th edition moves from Paseo de la Castellana to the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela. The 4.5 km course now runs on earth, grass and internal roads instead of asphalt. The race is followed by the first Madrid Dog Fest, with a National Police canine exhibition, an agility show, food stalls for people and dogs, and an open casting for dog actors.
🚩 Sport & Fitness
🏛️ Hipódromo de la Zarzuela (Avenida Padre Huidobro, s/n)
🎟️ €10–20
📅 Saturday 17 October
⏰ 12:00–23:00
5. La transición estética, Fundación Juan March
La transición estética. España, 1960-2020 at the Fundación Juan March looks at how modern art reached Spain through its audiences rather than its artists. More than 200 works and documents, from paintings to fanzines and records, follow case studies of about seventy artists, including Kandinsky, Duchamp and Ana Mendieta. It is a free exhibition in Madrid that opens on Friday and runs into January.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Fundación Juan March (Calle Castelló, 77)
🎟️ Free
📅 16 October–10 January
⏰ Mon–Sat 10:00–20:00, Sun 10:00–14:00
6. Iberdrola Immersive Experience
The Iberdrola immersive experience in the Palacio de Cibeles uses mixed-reality headsets to move through the history of electricity, from the 19th century to speculative future cities, among original historic pieces. The visit is self-guided and takes about an hour. Advance booking is required and children under 10 cannot use the headsets. This is its last weekend, as it closes on 20 October.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Palacio de Cibeles (Calle de Montalbán, 1)
🎟️ Free (advance booking required)
📅 Until 20 October
⏰ Daily 10:00–20:45 (last entry)
7. Seba Calfuqueo: Cautín
Cautín is the first European solo exhibition by Mapuche artist Seba Calfuqueo, in the basement galleries of the Thyssen-Bornemisza. More than 25 new works in ceramics, video performance, 3D animation and embroidered painting centre on the Cautín River in southern Chile, using it to look at water rights and colonial history from an Indigenous perspective. It runs alongside the museum's Dalí and Freud show.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Paseo del Prado, 8)
🎟️ From €10
📅 Until 17 January
⏰ Tue–Sun 10:00–19:00 (Saturday until 23:00)
8. La muerte nuestra de cada día
La muerte nuestra de cada día at Casa de México gathers 31 works by 19 Mexican artists, including Graciela Iturbide, Maya Goded and Héctor García, all made in heliogravure, a nineteenth-century technique that turns a photograph into a copper plate. The pieces deal with grief, memory and absence, from family loss to funeral rituals, violence and migration, rather than the familiar imagery of Day of the Dead.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Fundación Casa de México en España (Calle de Alberto Aguilera, 20)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 15 November
⏰ Mon 10:00–19:00, Tue–Sat 10:00–21:00, Sun 10:00–14:00
9. Rumores infundados, Javier y Rafa Forteza
Rumores infundados is the first joint exhibition by brothers Javier and Rafa Forteza, at CaixaForum Madrid. Javier's paintings show faces as shifting sequences between pain and calm, while Rafa builds abstract surfaces in acrylic, oil, graphite and charcoal, plus a twelve-piece aluminium shelving sculpture. Both circle the same androgynous, unresolved face. It is a free exhibition organised with Es Baluard Museu in Palma.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ CaixaForum Madrid (Paseo del Prado, 36)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 2 November
⏰ Daily 10:00–20:00
10. Inclinado de mi estrella
Inclinado de mi estrella at the Museo Casa Natal de Cervantes in Alcalá de Henares looks at how the sky was understood around 1600, the era of Cervantes, Kepler and Galileo. It draws on the writer's own pages to show how ordinary people read the stars, and links the theme to three eclipses visible from Spain in 2026, 2027 and 2028. A free mediation service runs on Wednesdays and Fridays.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Museo Casa Natal de Cervantes, Alcalá de Henares (Calle Mayor, 48)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 7 March
⏰ Tue–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat–Sun 10:00–19:00
11. BuzzAttack Chamberí
BuzzAttack in Chamberí turns a group outing into a live TV game show. Over 60 minutes, teams play five main games and a run of mini-games on a studio set, with a giant roulette deciding what comes next. There are three versions: an all-audiences quiz, a cheekier one, and a limited Halloween Quiz until 1 November. Sessions run in Spanish and English, and groups can be as large as 12 players.
🚩 Tours & Experiences
🏛️ BuzzAttack Madrid (Calle Raimundo Lulio, 9)
🎟️ From €13.90
📅 Until 31 December
⏰ Multiple sessions daily (closed Tuesdays)
12. The Play That Goes Wrong
La función que sale mal is the Madrid staging of The Play That Goes Wrong, the Olivier Award-winning comedy by Mischief Theatre. An amateur company opens its own mystery play and nothing on stage cooperates, with the actors taking 19 knocks per show and something breaking at every performance. It runs in Spanish at the Teatro Amaya, lasts 100 minutes with no interval and is in its eighth Spanish season.
🚩 Shows & Dance
🏛️ Teatro Amaya (Paseo General Martínez Campos, 9)
🎟️ From €26
📅 Until 29 November
⏰ Tue–Fri 20:00, Sat 17:00 and 20:00, Sun 17:00
