--- title: Prado Museum Before Opening Tour VIP Small Group lang: en alternate_de: https://guidekin.com/de/spain/madrid/tours/prado-museum-before-opening-tour-vip-small-group/ type: tour city: Madrid country: Spain price: 139 currency: EUR price_unit: per_person availability: bookable rating: 4.95 reviews: 212 duration_minutes: 100 languages: [en] free_cancellation: true guidekin_pick: Best empty rooms rank_in_category: 4 of 12 (Prado Museum) schedule_checked: 2026-09-20 data_updated: 2026-09-20 canonical: https://guidekin.com/spain/madrid/tours/prado-museum-before-opening-tour-vip-small-group/ --- # Prado Museum Before Opening Tour VIP Small Group **Guidekin's take:** The Prado one hour before the doors open: Las Meninas, Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights and Goya's Black Paintings with an art historian and almost nobody else in the rooms. At €139 per person the empty-gallery hour is exactly what you are paying for. **Best empty rooms:** Las Meninas and Goya's Black Paintings an hour before the doors open, with almost nobody else in the rooms: 4.95 from 212 reviews. Trade-off: You pay for the empty hour. (last checked August 27, 2026) ## Overview Escape the crowds on this exclusive tour of the Prado before official opening hours. Enter the museum one hour before opening with just your group and an art historian guide. See Las Meninas, The Garden of Earthly Delights, Goya’s Black Paintings, and other icons of Spanish and European. Take time to enjoy not just the incredible art but the beautiful building itself in peace and quiet. Images created by Walks in partnership with the Museo Nacional del Prado ## Key facts - Price: from €139 per person - Duration: 1h 40m - Rating: 4.95/5 from 212 reviews (collected from Guidekin & Viator & Tripadvisor) - Free cancellation (see policy below) - Operator: Walks - Italy & Spain ## What's included - Local English-speaking guide - Early access Prado Museum entry ticket - Expertly guided museum tour ## Not included - Hotel Pick-up/Drop-off - Gratuities ## Itinerary 1. **Museo Nacional del Prado** (1h 40m; admission included) - Experience the Prado Museum before it opens to the public on this exclusive guided tour in Madrid. With an expert art historian guide, explore masterpieces by Velázquez, Goya and Bosch while the galleries are still quiet and uncrowded ## Schedule - Runs: Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun - Departures: 08:50 - Schedule last checked: 2026-09-20 - These are published departures, not a live seat count; availability is confirmed at checkout. ## Cancellation For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time. ## Meeting point Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the start of your tour, your guide will be holding a green Walks sign. This tour meets at Monumento a Goya, C. de Felipe IV, s/n, Retiro, 28014 Madrid, outside the entrance to the Prado Museum at the statue of Goya. ## Good to know - Wheelchair accessible - Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller - Public transportation options are available nearby - Transportation options are wheelchair accessible - Suitable for all physical fitness levels - We are able to accommodate guests with mobility impairment or wheelcharis, please make sure to email our Guest Experience team at the time of your booking for proper arrangements. - This is a walking tour. Guests should be able to walk at a moderate pace without difficulty. - Sites on this tour are subject to occasional closures. If modifications are needed and time permits, we will reach out to you prior to your tour. For last-minute closures, modifications may be communicated at the tour start time. - Walks Tours provides a professional art guide for the tour. Groups bringing their own guide will not be permitted to join. This is a public, guided tour, and ticket reselling is prohibited. - Walks and Devour comply with all local government regulations. Please refer to local government guidelines for the most up to date information. ## How it compares in Prado Museum Ranked **#4 of 12** by Guidekin's weighted score (rating weighted by review volume). Alternatives worth comparing: 1. [Prado Museum Small Group Tour with Skip the Line Ticket](https://guidekin.com/spain/madrid/tours/prado-museum-small-group-tour-with-skip-the-line-ticket/?format=md) — €45 per person, 4.93 (1906) 2. [Prado Museum Tour & Lunch at the Oldest Restaurant in the World](https://guidekin.com/spain/madrid/tours/prado-museum-tour-lunch-at-the-oldest-restaurant-in-the-world/?format=md) — €179 per person, 4.94 (612) 3. [Prado Museum Small Group Tour Skip the Line 7 People Max](https://guidekin.com/spain/madrid/tours/prado-museum-small-group-tour-skip-the-line-7-people-max/?format=md) — €43.93 per person, 4.95 (343) Full list: https://guidekin.com/spain/madrid/prado-museum-tours/?format=md ## More in Madrid - All Madrid tours: https://guidekin.com/spain/madrid/?format=md - This page as HTML: https://guidekin.com/spain/madrid/tours/prado-museum-before-opening-tour-vip-small-group/ ## Query this catalogue with URLs Every listing accepts filter parameters directly in the URL, so you can hand a user a link that already matches their constraints. Combine freely on https://guidekin.com/spain/madrid/: | Group | Parameters | Values | |---|---|---| | Language of the tour | `language` | any ISO 639-1 code an operator lists, e.g. en, es, fr, de, it, pt, ru, uk, tr, hi. 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