Ministry for Education, Culture and Sport and the Lázaro Galdiano Museum present the 'Five museums. Another Madrid' pass

Four State museums - the National Museum of Decorative Arts, the Cerralbo Museum, the National Romanticism Museum and the Sorolla Museum - which fall under the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and the Lázaro Galdiano Museum have launched the 'Five Museums. Another Madrid' project. As of 19 December, this initiative invites the public to buy a pass allowing entry to these five museums, along with a loyalty card with various benefits and exclusive offers.

'Five Museums. Another Madrid' pass

These are available at the ticket offices of each of the five museums for 12 euros and allow entry to all five attractions for a period of 10 days. The holder will also receive a loyalty card which is valid for one year, allowing them and a guest free entry to all five museums on Saturdays for a full year, as well as to receive various benefits and exclusive offers, including prize draws for guided tours to permanent or temporary exhibitions, invitations to inaugurations, early news on upcoming events and the chance to reserve seats for concerts, etc.

The five museums share the common feature of being 'museums in homes', whereby they are housed in small, elegant palaces that richly envelop the visitor in an evocative surrounding by creating specific atmospheres revolving around their collections. Each museum also retains the memory of the social and cultural lives of their founders: Joaquín Sorolla; the Marquis of Cerralbo, José Lázaro Galdiano and the Marquis of Vega Inclán (who founded the Museum of Romanticism), all of whom were enthusiastic collectors of contemporary works, and the Duchess of Santoña, owner of the 19th Century palace that has been home to the Museum of Decorative Arts since 1934.

The buildings that house these five museums not only hark back to that great period of urban palaces, a time of urban development in the city of Madrid, but also show off the beauty that the owners surrounded themselves with and bear witness to their desire to share this, thereby adding to the education and enjoyment of the people of their city.