Museums in Málaga

The Museo de Málaga is the city's principal museum, combining fine arts and archaeology collections under one roof in the Palacio de la Aduana, a grand neoclassical customs house. Entry is free for EU citizens.

The Centre Pompidou Málaga is the first branch of the iconic Parisian institution outside France. Housed beneath a multicoloured glass cube on the Muelle Uno waterfront, it presents a rotating selection of modern and contemporary art from the Pompidou's 120,000-piece collection.

The Museo Picasso Málaga houses over 200 works by Pablo Picasso in the Palacio de Buenavista, a 16th-century Andalusian palace in the heart of the old town. The collection, donated by the artist's family, spans his entire career from early academic studies to late expressionist canvases.

The Museo del Vidrio y Cristal (Museum of Glass and Crystal) is a private museum in a restored 18th-century townhouse, displaying over 3,000 pieces of glassware, stained glass, and crystal spanning 3,000 years.

The Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga occupies the 16th-century Palacio de Villalón in the old town. Its permanent collection focuses on 19th-century Spanish painting, particularly Andalusian landscapes, costumbrismo scenes, and precursors to modernism.

MIMMA (Museo Interactivo de la Música Málaga) is a hands-on music museum in the Palacio del Conde de las Navas. Its collection of over 1,000 instruments from around the world comes alive through interactive 'Please Play Me' stations.

The Colección del Museo Ruso is a branch of the State Russian Museum of St Petersburg, located in the Tabacalera building. It presents rotating exhibitions drawn from the Russian museum's vast collection of Russian art spanning a thousand years.

The Casa Natal de Picasso on Plaza de la Merced is the house where Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on 25 October 1881. Now a museum and headquarters of the Picasso Foundation, it preserves family memorabilia and rotating exhibitions of Picasso's graphic work.

The Museo Automovilístico y de la Moda (Automobile and Fashion Museum) is an unusual museum housing a private collection of almost 100 vintage cars alongside haute couture fashion — displayed side by side in the former Tabacalera (tobacco factory).