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Museo Lazaro Galdiano vs Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Both are endorsed by expert reviewers. On balance, Museo Lazaro Galdiano is the choice of most writers compared to Queen Sofia Arts Center. Museo Lazaro Galdiano ranks #3 in Madrid with endorsements from 8 reviews including Travel + Leisure, Frommer's and Lonely Planet.

Museo Lazaro Galdiano
Museo Lazaro Galdiano
9 / 10
Serrano, 122, Madrid
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Fodor's Fodor's
"This stately mansion of writer and editor José Lázaro Galdiano (1862–1947)...has decorative items and paintings by Bosch, El Greco, Murillo, and Goya, among others." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"This is just the sort of place you expect to find along Calle de Serrano, with an imposing early-20th-century Italianate stone mansion set discreetly back from the street." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"Located off the typical tourist route in Salamanca, the little-known Museo Lázaro Galdiano displays more than 12,000 works of art." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"This unjustifiably little-known museum holds the extraordinarily eclectic collection of 15,000 paintings and objets d'art, covering 24 centuries, that was accumulated over 70 years." Full review
Let's Go Let's Go
"The vast majority of his collection consists of stiff 16th- to 18th-century religious portraits and scenes. " Full review
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
8 / 10
Santa Isabel, 52, 28012 Madrid
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Fodor's Fodor's
"The permanent art collection features 1,000 works on four floors... and, despite concentrating on painting, puts a much higher emphasis on other art forms such as photography and cinema." Full review
Concierge Concierge
"A spectacular triangular-roofed addition by French star architect Jean Nouvel has boosted what was already Spain's most important modern-art museum into the capital's new must-see."
Frommer's Frommer's
"As the Prado has filled the role of repository for traditional art in Madrid, the Reina Sofía, nicknamed the "MoMA of Madrid," has provided for the world of modern art." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Home to Picasso’s Guernica, arguably Spain’s single most famous artwork, and a host of other important Spanish artworks." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"Picasso’s Guernica, depicting Franco’s bombing of civilians in Guernica during the civil war, one of the most celebrated antiwar paintings of all time, makes its permanent home here." Full review
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