Madrid this Weekend: best events and plans.

Discover the best events happening in Madrid this weekend, Friday to Sunday, from culture and music to food and nightlife.

Exhibitions & Art

Painting from Salvador Dalí titled "Un segundo antes del despertar de un sueño provocado por el vuelo de una abeja alrededor de una granada", 1947

El universo freudiano de Dalí: 136 works at the Thyssen Museum

The Thyssen brings together 136 Dalí works tracing his lifelong engagement with Freudian psychoanalysis.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

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Exhibitions & Art

Seba Calfuqueo. Cautín. Thyssen Museum exhibition

Seba Calfuqueo: Cautín - Exhibition at the Thyssen

The Thyssen gives Mapuche artist Seba Calfuqueo a first European solo show built around Chile's Cautín river.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

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Experiences & Tours

Group playing a game show experience at BuzzAttack Chamberí in Madrid

BuzzAttack Chamberí: step into a live TV game show

Team up in a 60-minute live TV game show with five main games, mini-games and a giant roulette in Chamberí.

BuzzAttack Madrid

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Exhibitions & Art

Gustave Doré. Canto V. Minos. Xilografía. The Art Co., Italia | Robert Rauschenberg. Canto XXXI. El pozo central del Malebolge: los gigantes.

Dante’s Inferno: Doré and Rauschenberg exhibition

111 pieces unite Doré's 76 woodcuts and Rauschenberg's 35 lithographs, two visions of Dante's Inferno side by side.

Fundación Canal (Sala Mateo Inurria 2)

Exhibitions & Art

Exhibitions & Art

David Hockney at the opening of his exhibition at the Juan March Foundation Auditorium, Madrid, 1992.

La transición estética. España, 1960-2020 | Exhibition

An exhibition on how international modern art reached Spain between 1960 and 2020, seen through its audiences.

Fundación Juan March

Exhibitions & Art

Exhibitions & Art

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha. Published in Barcelona, 1952, with illustrations by Teodoro Miciano. MCNC Library

Inclinado de mi estrella: astronomy in Cervantes' time

An exhibition at Cervantes' birthplace in Alcalá de Henares on how people saw the stars in the writer's day.

Museo Casa Natal de Cervantes

Exhibitions & Art

Exhibitions & Art

Pictures from Martin Parr's exhibition a Matter of Taste at Marc Bibiloni Gallery in Madrid

Martin Parr: A Matter of Taste | Photography exhibition

Two galleries of Martin Parr's most iconic series, from The Last Resort to his fashion work, at Marc Bibiloni.

Exhibitions & Art

Experiences & Tours

Woman experiencing the Smithsonian Starstruck VR Space Walk

Smithsonian Starstruck: the VR Space Walk

A 40-minute free-roaming VR trip through deep space, built on Smithsonian astronomy data, in groups of up to four.

Fever Immersive Center

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Traditional Mexican altar for the "Die de los Muertos"

Altar de Muertos 2026: Día de los Muertos at Casa de México

Casa de México's Día de los Muertos altar honours composer Agustín Lara, with guided tours and workshops, 2 Oct-8 Nov 2026.

Fundación Casa de México en España

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El Rastro: a guide to enjoying Madrid’s flea market

Sunday in Madrid starts on a hill in La Latina. El Rastro, the city's open-air flea market, fills the streets below Plaza de Cascorro every Sunday and public holiday from 09:00 to 15:00, free to wander, with a different trade on every side street: paintings, second-hand books, film cameras, decorations, souvenirs, clothing, old furniture. The vermouth comes afterwards.

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