The Museo Reina Sofía Library
The main purpose of the Museo Reina Sofía Research Centre, Library and Archive is to provide documentary support to both its own experts and to researchers and students, and to facilitate access to its collections, which are comprised of a series of specialised materials on the subject of Contemporary Art.
The materials can be consulted freely and at no charge in the reading room. Inaugurated in 1990, the reading room has been located since 2005 on the lower floors of the Nouvel Building.
The Library can only be accessed using the Library Card*.
*New Digital Library CardThe Library is only open to researchers and has a limited capacity
10 reading spaces are currently open, with no prior appointment required, and available until full capacity is reached during morning and afternoon/evening time slots (9am to 2pm and 4pm to 8pm)
14 spaces remain open to consult the Library’s holdings, and can be booked by prior appointment ( biblioteca@museoreinasofia.es) during morning and afternoon/evening time slots
(spaces are temporarily unavailable on Floor +1)
Check the Library and Central Archive’s new regulations of access and use during the Covid-19 health emergency
Download the guide to the services available
Central Archive
From Monday to Friday - from 9am to 2pm
Prior appointment: archivo@museoreinasofia.es
Library
From Monday to Friday - from 9am to 2pm and from 4pm to 8pm
Prior appointment: biblioteca.sala@museoreinasofia.es
Space D
From Monday to Friday - from 9am to 8pm
Guided tours: Thursdays – 12pm
(the room will be cleared 15 minutes before closing).
Capacity: 5 people.
Guided tours: biblioteca.sala@museoreinasofia.es
Collection of the Library (Spanish text)
Library services
Some services are currently unavailable
Download the guide to the services available
Consultation in the reading room 
Copying items in the collection and accessing documents 
Reserving copies 
Requesting acquisitions 
Wireless Access Point 
Visiting the Library 
Inter-library loan 
Bibliographic exchange Contact information
The Library is only open to researchers, has a limited capacity and prior appoinments must be made to consult the funds.
Central Archive
From Monday to Friday - from 9am to 2pm
Prior appointment: archivo@museoreinasofia.es
Library
From Monday to Friday - from 9am to 2pm and from 4pm to 8pm
Prior appointment to consult funds: biblioteca.sala@museoreinasofia.es
Space D
From Monday to Friday - from 9am to 9pm
Guided tours: Thursdays – 11:30am
(the room will be cleared 15 minutes before closing).
Capacity: 5 people.
Guided tours: biblioteca.sala@museoreinasofia.es
Application form for the Library Card.
Documentation Centre
Every month the library makes a number of acquisitions that are especially relevant for research into Spanish art, without losing view of the international context in which it takes place.
For this reason, it has put in place a program for the purchase of retrospective and rare material through old book markets and auctions; it also pursues an active policy of compiling archives formed by artists, artist collectives and art galleries.
