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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza vs Museo Lazaro Galdiano

Both Museo Lazaro Galdiano and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum are endorsed by travel writers. Overall, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum ranks significantly higher than Museo Lazaro Galdiano. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has a TripExpert Score of 97 with positive reviews from 10 reviewers including Frommer's, Condé Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure.

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
9 / 10
Paseo del Prado, 8, 28014 Madrid, Spain
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Fodor's Fodor's
"Opened in 1992, the Thyssen occupies spacious galleries filled with natural light in the late-18th-century Villahermosa Palace (itself finished in 1771)." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
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"One of the most extraordinary private collections of predominantly European art in the world, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is a worthy member of Madrid’s ‘Golden Triangle’ of art." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"The Thyssen’s pieces, purchased by the Spanish state from a private collector in 1992, represent a tremendous breadth of European painters from the 14th to 21st centuries." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"The private collection of the late Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza is widely considered the most important in the world." Full review
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Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler
"The third leg in Madrid's "golden triangle of art"... one of the world's great private collections, and includes everything from Old Masters to 20th-century Cubists." Full review
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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
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"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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