The Short List, 4 of 10
Open todayMuseum46 families interested
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
- Open today
- 10am to 5pm
- Price
- €7
- Setting
- Indoor
The Short List, 4 of 10: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
MuseumChamartín46 families interested
Area
Chamartín
Good for
3–12
Cost
€7
Setting
Indoor
Season
year-round
Updated
Oct 28, 2026
What you need to know
- Free entry slots on Tuesdays 3pm to 5pm and Sundays 6:30pm to 8pm, booked online until full (not in summer)
- Timed tickets: you can't go in before the time printed on yours, and the museum recommends buying online over the box office
- Dinosaurs upstairs, whale downstairs: the fossil hall is on the first and second floors, the Biodiversity hall on the ground floor
About
This is one of the oldest natural history museums in the world, split into a geology wing and a biology wing. The fossil hall holds Dippy, a Diplodocus cast that arrived in 1913, beside the Megatherium giant ground sloth and a replica of Lucy. The Biodiversity hall, signed in Spanish and English, has a 21-meter fin whale skeleton, an African elephant and extinct animals like the Tasmanian tiger.
IndoorEnglish Friendly
€7
Large and single-parent families free
Tue-Fri10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sat-Sun10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Closed Mon. Jul 1-Sep 14: Tue-Sun 10am-3pm
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Location
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
C. de José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, Chamartín, 28006 Madrid, Spain
