Best museums in Valencia: prices, the Monday closures and the free Sundays, with the two old-town sights that are shut

💡 The Short Version: Most Valencia museums are closed on Mondays: IVAM, the Museo de Bellas Artes, the Hortensia Herrero Art Centre, the Ceramics Museum, the Silk Museum and the Fallas, Rice and Natural Sciences museums. The Museo de Bellas Artes, MuVIM, the Prehistory Museum and the Museu de la Mar are free every day they are open. On Sundays the Fallas Museum and the Ceramics Museum are free, and IVAM (€5) is free with a reserved ticket. The Hortensia Herrero Art Centre is €12, free on Wednesday afternoons by reservation. L’Almoina and the City Museum are closed. The 7-day Tourist Card includes IVAM. Prices are in euros. Or book a tour: the Hortensia Herrero ticketad is €12 and the 7-day Tourist Cardad from €15 (GetYourGuide).

Closed days and free days

Prices are the adult rate, from the museums and from Visit València, the city’s tourism foundation, which prints the municipal museums’ hours and prices. The cathedral, the Lonja and the towers have their own pages.

Several municipal museums also close on 1 January, 6 January, 1 May and 25 December. The City of Arts and Sciences, the Bioparc, the Botanic Garden and the Central Market are open on Mondays; what to book in Valencia has the week at a glance.

Closed

• L’Almoina, the Roman forum behind the cathedral: closed since about 21 July 2026 for waterproofing and air-conditioning works that the city puts at 14 months, to autumn 2027.
• The City Museum (Museo de la Ciudad): closed since 7 September 2026.

Free days and passes

• Free every day they are open: the Museo de Bellas Artes, MuVIM, the Prehistory Museum and the Museu de la Mar.
• Sundays and public holidays: the Fallas Museum, the Cervelló museum, the Taurino Museum (also Saturdays), the Ceramics Museum (also Saturdays from 16:00), the Natural Sciences museum (from 15:00) and IVAM, whose free ticket is reserved online. The Lonja and the two city gates are free too: free things to do in Valencia lists them.
• Valencia Tourist Card: the 7-day card includes IVAM and the cathedral. All the cards include the municipal museums and monuments: the Fallas, Rice, Natural Sciences, Cervelló, Benlliure, Blasco Ibáñez and Concha Piquer museums, the San Vicente crypt, the Lonja and the two gates. The Ceramics Museum, CaixaForum, L’Iber and the Taurino Museum are 50% off, IVAM too on the 24, 48 and 72-hour cards, the Hortensia Herrero Art Centre 20% and the Silk Museum €1. Valencia Tourist Card: is it worth it? has the sums.
• Under 16s: free at the Fallas Museum, the Cervelló museum and CaixaForum.

Tours worth paying for

Both are tickets, not tours. Prices are the lowest “from” prices, per person.

Hortensia Herrero Art Centre ticket

From €12 · 4.7 stars from 175 reviews

Valencia: Hortensia Herrero Art Center Ticket or Guided Tourad is sold by the Art Centre itself, at its own price of €12.

Valencia Tourist Card, 7 days

From €15 · 4.2 stars from 112 reviews

Valencia Tourist City Card - 7 Daysad is the card Visit València issues, at the €15 list price. Visit València’s own website sells it at €13.50.

Art

Hortensia Herrero Art Centre

€12 · closed Mondays · free Wednesday 15:00 to 20:00 with a reservation · Calle del Mar 31

The centre holds more than a hundred works from Hortensia Herrero’s private collection in the 17th-century Valeriola Palace, with 17 rooms, from Miró, Tàpies and Manolo Valdés to Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer and Roy Lichtenstein. Visit València lists works made for particular spaces, among them Jaume Plensa’s Tempesta and Tomás Saraceno’s Corona Australis in the hall and an Olafur Eliasson tunnel, and the remains of Roman Valentia’s circus in the basement. A visit takes about 1 hour 30 minutes. Reduced tickets are €8, for ages 12 to 25, over-65s and large families, and children under 12 are free. A guided tour is €15 (reduced €12), in Spanish only. A combined ticket with San Nicolás and Santos Juanes is €32 (reduced €25), valid for five days, against €43 for the three separately. Buy at cahh.es.

IVAM

€5 · closed Mondays · free on Sundays and Wednesday 16:00 to 19:00 with a reserved ticket · Guillem de Castro 118

The Valencian Institute of Modern Art opened in 1989 and, Visit València says, was the first museum of modern art in Spain. Eight galleries show the collection and temporary exhibitions. The collection has around 14,000 works, and Visit València says it holds the largest collection of the sculptor Julio González in the world and nearly 500 works by Ignacio Pinazo. A separate room shows the foundations of the 14th-century city wall. The 7-day Tourist Card includes IVAM, and the 24, 48 and 72-hour cards take 50% off. Tickets at ivam.es.

Museo de Bellas Artes

Free · closed Mondays · Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 20:00 · San Pío V 9

Visit València calls it the second-largest picture gallery in Spain, and it holds the Valencian Primitives, a Sorolla room and works by Goya, El Greco, Murillo and Velázquez. The cloister has Iberian sculpture and Roman mosaics. It is free every day it is open, closes on 1 January and 25 December and at 14:00 on 24 and 31 December, and clears its rooms from 10 minutes before closing, so the last entry at 19:30 allows a 20-minute visit. Hours at museobellasartesvalencia.gva.es.

The Museo de Bellas Artes, on Calle San Pío V. Photo: MCAE Consulting, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

CaixaForum València

€6 · open daily 10:00 to 20:00 · Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Calle Eduardo Primo Yúfera 1A

It fills Calatrava’s Àgora in the City of Arts and Sciences, with an interior by Enric Ruiz-Geli. Its exhibitions are not included in the combined City of Arts and Sciences tickets, so it needs its own ticket. It is free on 9 October, 19 March and 18 May and for under-16s, and the Tourist Card takes 50% off.

Bombas Gens Centre d’Arts Digitals

€9.50 to €14.50 · closed Tuesdays · Avenida de Burjassot 54

An immersive and digital art centre in a 1930s Art Deco factory in Marxalenes, with four halls. Open Monday and Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 to 21:00, with the last pass at 19:00.

History, objects and local life

Museo Nacional de Cerámica

€3 · closed Mondays · free Sundays and Saturdays from 16:00 · Calle Poeta Querol 2

It fills the Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas, whose baroque alabaster doorway shows the rivers Júcar and Turia. Visit València says it holds the largest ceramics collection in Spain, from the 8th century to Picasso, and the palace has 18th-century carriages. Plan at least an hour. Under-18s, over-65s and the unemployed enter free, and the Tourist Card takes 50% off.

The alabaster doorway of the Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas, with the river figures below the Virgin’s niche. Photo: Zarateman, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Museo de la Seda

€9, reduced €7 · closed Mondays · Calle Hospital 7

The Silk Museum is in the 15th-century seat of the velvet weavers’ guild, which gave the Velluters quarter its name, restored with the Hortensia Herrero Foundation. It shows working looms, tools, silk fabrics and costumes, and its courtyard has a restaurant and a shop. Visit València says the guild archive is the most important in Europe. The Tourist Card takes €1 off.

Museo Fallero

€2 · closed Mondays · free Sundays and holidays and under 16 · Plaza Monteolivete 4

It keeps the ninots indultats, the figures saved from the Fallas fires since 1934: two are pardoned each year by popular vote, one from a large falla and one from a children’s falla. An audio guide goes round them, and posters, films and photographs trace the festival’s history. Last entry is at 18:00, or 13:00 on Sundays. Las Fallas 2027 has the dates of the festival.

Museo del Arroz

€2 · closed Mondays · Calle del Rosario 3, Cabanyal

A rice mill of 1906, used until the 1970s, with its cleaning, husking and bagging machinery restored. It pairs with the Cabanyal and a paella on the seafront: the beaches cover the district.

Museu de la Mar

Free · closed Mondays · Casa dels Bous, Carrer dels Pescadors

The museum of the fishing quarter is in the Casa dels Bous, built in the late 19th century to stable the oxen that hauled the boats from the water. A guided visit runs on Saturdays at 17:00 in Valencian and 18:00 in Spanish, booked on 962 08 31 82.

Museu de Prehistòria

Free · closed Mondays · Calle Corona 36

Visit València counts it among the most complete in Spain. It runs from the first human fossils of the Cova del Bolomor to the Iberian pottery of Llíria and the Warrior of Moixent, and shares La Beneficencia with the ethnology museum L’ETNO.

Museo de Ciencias Naturales

€2 · closed Mondays · free Sundays from 15:00 · Jardines del Real, General Elio 1

More than 5,000 fossils, among them twenty skeletons of prehistoric mammals led by a megatherium, in a renovated museum with an augmented-reality app. The collection began with a donation by the engineer Rodrigo Botet in the 19th century.

MuVIM

Free · closed Mondays · Guillem de Castro 8

The Valencian Museum of the Enlightenment and Modernity has a permanent exhibition on the Enlightenment, a large model of Valencia made in 1704 to the plans of Padre Tosca, and medieval remains.

L’Iber

€8 · closed Mondays · Calle de Caballeros 20

In the Palacio de Malferit, a museum of tin soldiers and historical miniatures that Visit València calls the largest in the world, with more than 95,000 pieces. Tickets are €5 for groups of 10, under-26s and large families, and the Tourist Card takes 50% off.

Museo del Palacio de Cervelló and Museo Taurino

Each €2 · closed Mondays (Cervelló) · Plaza de Tetuán 3 and Passatge Doctor Serra 10

The Cervelló museum is in the 18th-century palace of the Counts of Cervelló, where the monarchs stayed after the royal palace came down in 1810; the palace also holds the municipal archive. The Taurino Museum, which opened in 1929 beside the bullring, follows the history of bullfighting through the careers of Valencian matadors, and is open Tuesday to Sunday, free on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. The bullring itself is closed for works.

The writers’ and artists’ houses

Casa Museo Benlliure

€2 · closed Mondays · Blanquerías 23, El Carmen

The home and studio of the painter José Benlliure from 1912, with a romantic garden, in the heart of El Carmen.

Casa Museo Blasco Ibáñez

€2 · closed Mondays · Isabel de Villena 157, Malvarrosa

The chalet the novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez built in 1902 on the Malvarrosa beach. The first floor recreates the rooms where he lived and wrote, with the chair from which he looked at the sea.

Casa Museo Concha Piquer

€2 · closed Sundays, Mondays and holidays · Ruaya 23

The home where the copla singer Concha Piquer grew up, with her dresses, records and personal objects. It opens Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00 only.

What to book in Valencia has the closed days for every sight, and things to do in Valencia puts them in one table. The City of Arts and Sciences has the Museu de les Ciències. Free things to do in Valencia gathers the free Sundays. Valencia with kids sorts the museums by age. 3 days in Valencia builds a Monday plan from the open sights. For a bed, see where to stay in Valencia.