Museo Sorolla, Madrid

Museo Sorolla brings you into Joaquín Sorolla’s former home and studio, now preserved as a museum devoted to his work and the lives of his family. The house was designed by Enrique María Repullés, the architect behind Madrid’s Stock Exchange, and Sorolla commissioned it when his success allowed him to create a home that also contained a substantial working space. The most revealing detail is the way domestic life and painting remain together: the principal rooms retain their historic furnishings, while the studio still presents the scale and light of an artist’s workplace, with canvases covering its walls.

Sorolla’s widow, Clotilde García del Castillo, set the museum’s creation in motion through her will, leaving the house and collection to the Spanish state so his memory would endure. The museum opened in 1932. It is dedicated not only to Sorolla, but also to the family world that surrounded him, including Clotilde and their daughter Elena.

The building is currently closed during a renewal and expansion project, with reopening planned for early 2026. Even from outside, the important idea is clear: this is not merely a gallery of paintings, but the preserved setting where those paintings were made.