Museums in Seville beyond the big sights: prices, hours and the day each one is closed

💡 The Short Version: The Museo de Bellas Artes is €1.50, the Archivo General de Indias is free, the Hospital de los Venerables is €12, and the Torre del Oro asks a voluntary €3. Monday is the trap: the Archivo de Indias, Bellas Artes, the Antiquarium, the Casa Fabiola and the Triana ceramics centre are all closed, while the Venerables, the Torre del Oro and the flamenco museum are open. A Real Alcázar ticket opens the Antiquarium, Casa Fabiola and ceramics centre free on the same day or the next. Prices are in euros.

Closed days and hours

Prices are the adult rate from each museum’s own pages. Hours are for October to March unless stated.

Museo de Bellas Artes

€1.50 · closed Mondays · Plaza del Museo 9

The Museo de Bellas Artes is run by the Junta de Andalucía. Entry is free for accredited EU citizens and ICOM members, so visitors from the UK, the US, Canada and Australia pay €1.50. It is free for everyone on 28 February, 18 May, 27 September and 4 December, and on the European Heritage Days. From September to July it is open Tuesday to Saturday 9:00 to 21:00 and Sunday 9:00 to 15:00; in August it is open Tuesday to Sunday 9:00 to 15:00. It also opens on Monday holidays, until 15:00: 2 November and 7 December 2026. The last 25 tickets go on sale 45 minutes before closing, and the rooms close 30 minutes before. Bags over 20 x 30 x 10 cm are not allowed; there are lockers.

Archivo General de Indias

Free · closed Mondays · Avenida de la Constitución

The Archivo General de Indias holds the records of Spain’s empire in the Americas, and it shares its 1987 UNESCO listing with the Alcázar and the Cathedral. Visitors see the monumental area and the temporary exhibitions. Entry is free with no booking; groups of more than 20 must book. It is open Tuesday to Saturday 9:30 to 17:00 (last entry 16:30) and Sunday and holidays 10:00 to 14:00 (last entry 13:30). It is closed on Mondays, on 1 and 6 January, on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, and on 24, 25 and 31 December. Access can be restricted for capacity.

Hospital de los Venerables

€12 · open Mondays · Plaza de los Venerables 8

The Hospital de los Venerables is a 17th-century hospital for priests in the Santa Cruz quarter, with a baroque church and the Centro Velázquez. The €12 ticket includes an audio guide; over 65s, ages 13 to 18, students to 25, people from Seville and disability of 33% to 64% pay €10, and children under 12 are free. It is open Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 19:00 and Sunday 10:00 to 15:00, with the last pass an hour before closing, and closed on 1 January. Guided visits run on Fridays and Saturdays at 11:00, 12:00, 16:00 and 17:00 for €15, and there is a candle-lit evening visit on Thursdays at 18:00 for €15.

The courtyard of the Hospital de los Venerables. Photo: José Luis Filpo Cabana, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Torre del Oro

A voluntary €3 · open Mondays · Paseo de Colón

The Torre del Oro is an Almohad tower built about 1220, 36 metres high (the Almohads were the Muslim dynasty that ruled Seville in the 12th and 13th centuries), and a naval museum on the city’s links with navigation and trade. The Armada asks for a voluntary contribution of €3 to the museum’s upkeep. The city’s tourism site, Visita Sevilla, lists Monday as a free day. It has two floors and a roof terrace, and no cloakroom. It is open Monday to Friday 9:30 to 19:00 and Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10:30 to 19:00, with the last pass at 18:30, and closed on 1 and 6 January, Good Friday, 1 May and 25 December. The Maestranza bullring is next door.

The Torre del Oro on the Guadalquivir. Photo: Benjamin Smith, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The council’s museums: Antiquarium, Casa Fabiola and ceramics

Free with an Alcázar ticket · closed Mondays

The Real Alcázar general ticket includes all three, on the day or the next.

• Antiquarium, under the Metropol Parasol in Plaza de la Encarnación: Roman and Islamic remains, including the House of the Column with its Medusa mosaic and an Almohad house. €2 otherwise. See Las Setas.
• Casa Fabiola (Museo Bellver), Calle Fabiola 5: a 16th-century palace holding the Mariano Bellver and Dolores Mejías collection of Romantic painting. €3 otherwise. It closes at 15:00 in Holy Week, during the Feria de Abril and on 24 and 31 December and 5 January.
• Triana ceramics centre, Calle Callao 16: a former pottery with its kilns, where many of the tiles of the Plaza de España were made. It is indoors, which suits a hot day. Triana puts it on a walk.

The flamenco museum

€6 · €33 with a show · Calle Manuel Rojas Marcos 3

The Museo del Baile Flamenco, founded by the dancer Cristina Hoyos, has five interactive rooms and an art gallery. The museum ticket is €6, and the museum with its evening show is €33. Flamenco shows in Seville compared covers the show.

The Palacio de Lebrija and the park museums

The Palacio de Lebrija, at Calle Cuna 8, has 580 square metres of Roman mosaics. It is open daily from 10:00 to 18:00 from September to June, and from 10:00 to 15:00 in July and August, with the last pass 45 minutes before closing. A free pass for the ground floor is offered on Fridays at 10:00, with limited places.

The Parque de María Luisa holds two museums. The Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares, at Plaza de América 3, is free for accredited EU citizens and €1.50 for everyone else, open Tuesday to Saturday 9:00 to 21:00 and Sunday and holidays 9:00 to 15:00 from 16 September to 15 June, and closed on Mondays; its first floor is closed. Hours can change when the park closes for a rain or wind alert. The Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla is closed for refurbishment.

What to see

1. Paintings: the Museo de Bellas Artes, at €1.50.
2. Documents of the empire: the Archivo General de Indias, which is free.
3. A baroque hospital: the Hospital de los Venerables, open on Mondays.
4. The river: the Torre del Oro, with a roof terrace.
5. Roman Seville: the Antiquarium, free with the Alcázar ticket.
6. Tiles: the Triana ceramics centre.

What to skip: the Casa Fabiola on a first visit, if painting is not the point.

What is open on a Monday

Open: the Alcázar, the Cathedral, Las Setas, the Casa de Pilatos, the Palacio de las Dueñas, the Maestranza, the Hospital de los Venerables, the Torre del Oro, the Museo del Baile Flamenco and the Palacio de Lebrija. Closed: the Archivo General de Indias, the Museo de Bellas Artes (except the holidays above), the Antiquarium, the Casa Fabiola and the Triana ceramics centre.

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