Valencia offers numerous alternatives for those who want to enjoy free activities in the city. Among these alternatives are free museums, such as the Centre del Carme and the Museum of Fine Arts, which are free all year round, or others that open their doors for free on certain days of the week.
Below we detail the free opening hours of each of the museums in Valencia, regardless of age, special situations and specific cards.
MuVIM (Valencian Museum of Illustration and Modernity)
What has made Modernity possible? What do we owe to this historical epoch? The MuVIM is a museum that calls itself a museum of ideas. This does not mean that all the exhibitions are about immaterial issues, but it revolves around everything that made it possible to change the world and our way of living and seeing life.
🆓 F ree days: All
🕥 Hours: Tuesday to Saturday: from 10 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm. Sundays and holidays: from 10 am to 8 pm.
📍 Location: Calle Guillem de Castro, 8.
Museum of Natural Sciences
If you are interested in the world and how it was formed, without a doubt, the Museum of Natural Sciences is for you. Here you will discover how it has been the journey of the Earth and its different stages until the appearance of man.
🆓Free days: Sundays and holidays.
🕥 Hours: Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am to 7 pm. Mondays closed.
📍 Location: Carrer General Elío (Jardins de Vivers).
City Museum (and other municipal museums).
The collections of this museum have a historical, artistic, archaeological and ethnographic character . It also has an important collection of Valencian artists from the 15th century to the present. Being a municipal museum, it is free every Sunday and holidays.
🆓Free days : Sundays and holidays .
🕥Hours : Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm, Sundays and holidays from 10 am to 2 pm.
📍Location: Plaza del Arzobispo, 3.
Museum of Fine Arts
This museum in Valencia is the second largest art gallery in Spain and has works ranging from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. We will find Renaissance works, archaeological pieces and rooms dedicated to the great Valencian artist Sorolla.
🆓 F ree days: All of them!
🕥Hours : Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 8 pm.
📍 Location: C/ de Sant Pius V, 9.
Museum of Prehistory of Valencia
As its name says, this museum is dedicated to the study and dissemination of the prehistoric period. We will see from numismatic exhibitions, to what life was like in the Paleolithic or Bronze Age. Admission is always free.
🆓Free days : Always.
🕥 Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 8 pm.
📍Location. La Beneficència Cultural Center, C/ de la Corona, 36.
IVAM, Valencian Institute of Modern Art.
Discovering Modern Art can be a complicated task. And sometimes we don’t know where to start. That’s why visiting the IVAM is always a good option if we want to start getting into this world. We will find works of all kinds of Modern and Contemporary Age.
🆓Free days : Wednesdays from 16h to 19h and Sundays all day.
🕥Hours : Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 7pm, Friday from 10am to 8pm. Mondays closed.
📍Location: Calle Guillem de Castro, 118.
Museum of History of Valencia
The History Museum of Valencia focuses on the city and its people from its origins to the present day. You will be able to explore the eight major periods that have shaped the city, and key themes such as urban planning, and its evolution, the economy in the different eras and society.
🆓 F ree days: Free only during Sundays and holidays.
🕥Hours : Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm, Sundays and holidays from 10 am to 2 pm.
📍Location: C/ València, 42
González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts.
This museum contains an extensive collection of ceramic pieces ranging from the 8th century to the present day. It is the largest ceramics museum in the country. Although don’t think you will only find these pieces, there are also carriages, chairs…. And the architecture of the place is worth the visit by itself!
🆓Free days : Saturday afternoons (from 4pm) and Sundays all day.
🕥Hours : Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm. Sundays and holidays from 10 am to 2 pm.
📍Location: C. del Poeta Querol, 2.
Military Historical Museum of Valencia
Unfortunately, wars have always existed, and with them weapons. The Military Historical Museum of Valencia lets us see what this part of history has been like and what objects and weapons innovations have been used throughout the ages.
🆓 F ree days: Always.
🕥Hours : Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm. Sundays and holidays from 10 am to 2 pm.
📍Location: C/ General Gil Dolz, 6.
CCCC (Centro del Carmen de Cultura Contemporánea).
Without a doubt, the CCCC is one of our favorite museums in the city and, in addition, it is always free. It’s a former convent that now houses a wide range of contemporary art practices.
🆓Free days : always!
🕥Hours : Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 9 pm.
📍Location: C/ del Museu, 2.
Valencian Museum of Ethnology (L’Etno).
Is a walkman history ? And a wired telephone? There are many objects that, although we have lived with them, are already part of our recent history. The Ethnological Museum of Valencia, better known as L’Etno, collects all the social practices and objects of our contemporary and near past so that they do not fall into oblivion.
🆓 F ree days: All
🕥 Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 8 pm.
📍Location: C/ de la Corona, 36.