The Community of Madrid extends the opening hours of Metro's most representative museums during Easter
Last year, the underground's museum spaces received more than 137,000 visitors, 37% more than in 2023. The Nave de Motores, Chamartín station, Chamberí and the Caños del Peral will be open from 14 to 19 April between 10 am and 2 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm. Admission to these emblematic sites is free and only requires prior reservation at https://museosmetromadrid.es
From tomorrow and during Easter, the Community of Madrid will extend the opening days of the most emblematic museums in the Metro so that citizens can visit its most representative exhibition spaces, which are becoming increasingly consolidated as part of the region's cultural offerings, free of charge.
Thus, the Nave de Motores, the Caños de Peral and the Chamartín and Chamberí stations will be open until Saturday between 10 am and 2 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm, except on Easter Sunday when they will be closed in the afternoon. In addition to these, the old Pacífico hall will be open for guided tours on 19 April. To enjoy these activities, prior registration is required at https://museosmetromadrid.es. These sites received more than 137,000 visitors, 37% more than in 2023.
Another of the attractions of these spaces is that you can get a reward if you complete the whole route. All this, thanks to the Museum Passport with which to discover, in addition to these sites, three other sites such as the Gran Vía exhibition, the Tirso de Molina hall and the Carpetana Palaeontological Centre. Once completed and stamped, holders of the document can go to the Metro shops, in Sol and Plaza de Castilla, to get a special gift.
Details of this activity, which has helped to increase the interest of tourists and relaunch these visits, can be found at https://www.metromadrid.es/es/pasaportemuseos. Since the initiative was launched in February 2022, 2,700 users have already received their prize after completing all the stamps along the route.
Chamartín, which hosts the exhibition of classic trains, is a real historical gem, as it has the first models of coaches from 1919 that operated until 1965.
The Nave de Motores, built between 1922 and 1924, retains its original appearance and has three huge diesel engines and the machinery that was once used to generate and transform the energy with which the trains ran. The building stands out for the clarity of its conception, the attention to detail and good execution that characterise all of the work of Palacios, one of the great architects of the city’s style during the first half of the 20th century.
Conversely, Chamberí station, known as the Ghost Station, will allow visitors to return to the Madrid of the 1950s and 1960s by descending just a few steps. The site belongs to the company's first line, opened in 1919, which had eight stations and was closed in the mid 1960s as the length of the trains increased. Its design is also the work of Metro's architect, who chose a ceramic tiling for the interior with ornamental patterns. Its advertising posters are one of its great attractions, as they have been preserved almost exactly as they were created in the 1920s.
Also, during the next few days, the public will be able to enter Ópera to see the largest underground archaeological museum in the Spanish capital, a 200 square metre space where you can see archaeological remains from the 16th and 17th centuries from the Fuente de los Caños del Peral, the Aqueduct of Amaniel and the Alcantarilla del Arenal.
