Saturday at the CAAC is free for ten hours. Sunday costs money, runs five and a half hours, and is over by half past three in the afternoon.
The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo opens from 11am to 9pm Tuesday to Saturday and from 10am to 3.30pm on Sundays and holidays.
When is the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo free?
Tuesday to Friday from 7pm to 9pm, and Saturdays from 11am, which is its opening time, so Saturday is free in full. That is 18 of the 55.5 hours it opens each week. The complete visit otherwise costs €3.01 and the monument alone €1.80.
Saturday is free and Sunday is not
The free access window runs Tuesday to Friday between 7pm and 9pm, and on Saturdays from 11am. Since 11am is opening time and 9pm is closing time, the Saturday exemption is not a window at all. It is the whole day.
That reverses the assumption most visitors bring. Sunday, the day associated with cheap museum entry across Spain, is charged here, lasts five and a half hours and shuts at 3.30pm. Saturday is free, lasts ten hours and runs into the evening.
On a free Saturday the €3.01 complete visit costs nothing, which means the monastery and the temporary exhibitions come together at no charge. The rule about tickets stopping half an hour before closing also stops mattering that day, since there is no ticket to buy. A weekend in Seville that has to choose one of the two days for this site has an answer that does not depend on taste.
A third of the opening week costs nothing
Adding up the timetable the Junta de Andalucía publishes, the CAAC opens 55.5 hours a week: ten hours on each of five days from Tuesday to Saturday, and five and a half on Sunday. Of that total, 18 hours are free.
Those 18 are the final two hours of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, which make eight, plus the ten of a complete Saturday. Almost a third of this centre’s opening week can be visited without paying, and most of that fraction sits on one day.
The distribution matters more than the proportion. Ten of those 18 free hours land on Saturday and the remaining eight are split into four separate two-hour evening blocks, so a visitor who cannot make a Saturday gets a maximum of two free hours per attempt. Sunday, at five and a half hours, is both the shortest opening day of the week and one of the two that is charged in full.
Two tickets inside one enclosure
The tariff splits the site into two routes sold separately. The monument costs €1.80, the temporary exhibitions cost another €1.80, and the complete visit to both costs €3.01, which is less than buying the two singly.
The monument is the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuevas, and the exhibitions are the contemporary art programme installed inside it. A €1.80 ticket buys one of the two, so the choice at the desk is between a Carthusian monastery and a contemporary art show standing in the same walls.
The arithmetic of the combined ticket is small but real. Two separate €1.80 tickets come to €3.60, while the complete visit is €3.01, so buying them together saves €0.59. That is the only bundled price in the whole Seville museum system, where nothing else carries a discount for taking two things at once.
At the top of the city’s scale those figures barely register. The €3.01 complete visit is roughly a fifth of the €15.50 general ticket at the Real Alcázar, for a site that contains both a monastery and a contemporary collection.
It opens two hours later than the other regional museums
The CAAC timetable does not match the rest of the regional museums in Seville, even though they share an administration. This one opens at 11am where the others open at 9am, and on Sunday it closes at 3.30pm where the others close at 3pm.
The practical gap is two hours in the morning. Anyone chaining the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla with this one on the same day has to start with the first, because at 9am the second has not opened. The way each of them grants free entry also differs, as set out in the guide to Seville’s free museums.
Tickets are sold until half an hour before closing, so the last one goes at 8.30pm from Tuesday to Saturday and at 3pm on Sundays. It closes every Monday plus a list of public holidays that includes 1 and 6 January, 1 May, and 8, 24, 25 and 31 December.
The one museum that is not in the centre
The site is at Avenida Américo Vespucio 2, on the Isla de la Cartuja, with a second entrance from Camino de los Descubrimientos. That is across the river and outside the perimeter where the paid doors of the old town are concentrated.
The consequence for a short trip is that this visit is a journey with its own weight rather than something slotted between two monuments. Nothing here can be combined on foot with the Cathedral or the Real Alcázar in the way those two combine with each other, and that is the single reason most itineraries leave it out.
It also changes which day the visit belongs on. A monument in the old town can absorb a spare ninety minutes; a site across the river cannot, so it works best as the anchor of a half day rather than as a filler. The free Saturday and the location push in the same direction: block out the afternoon, cross once, and let the €3.01 sit unspent.
The €3.01 complete visit is the dearest admission in the entire museum block of the city, and it still sits nine euros below the cheapest monument. The free Saturday also happens to be the only exemption in Seville that ignores nationality, as set out in the guide to what Seville’s museums cost.
The 7pm window is the one that fits a full day
That location is exactly what makes the Tuesday-to-Friday evening slot more useful than it looks. By 7pm the paid monuments of the centre have finished: Casa de Pilatos closes at 6pm every day of the year, and the daytime routes of the Cathedral and the Alcázar are done.
At that hour the CAAC still has two hours of opening left and is charging nothing for them. A day that starts with the monuments of the old town can end across the river without a second ticket, which is a sequence no other museum in the city supports.
Summer strengthens the same case. With a July mean daily maximum of 36.0°C in the AEMET normal values, set out in the figures for a Seville summer, a site that runs from 11am to 9pm covers the stretch of the day that cannot be spent outdoors, and the last two hours of it are free.
Frequently asked questions about the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo
When is the CAAC in Seville free?
From Tuesday to Friday between 7pm and 9pm, and on Saturdays from 11am, which is its opening time. Since Saturday closing is 9pm, the free entry covers the entire day, ten consecutive hours with no ticket desk.
What are the CAAC opening hours?
Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 9pm, and Sundays and holidays from 10am to 3.30pm, according to the Junta de Andalucía. It closes every Monday, and tickets are sold until half an hour before closing time.
How much does the CAAC cost?
A visit to the monument costs €1.80, a visit to the temporary exhibitions another €1.80, and the complete visit €3.01. They are two separate routes inside the same enclosure, the Cartuja monastery and the contemporary art programme installed within it.
Where is the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo?
At Avenida Américo Vespucio 2, on the Isla de la Cartuja, with a second entrance from Camino de los Descubrimientos. It sits across the river from the historic centre, outside the perimeter where Seville’s other paid monuments cluster.
Is the CAAC free for EU citizens?
The mechanism the Junta de Andalucía publishes for this centre is a time window rather than an accreditation. Its tariff of €1.80 and €3.01 also differs from the €1.50 that the other two regional museums in Seville charge, so it runs on its own rules.
If the trip includes a Saturday, spend part of it here. Ten hours open, no ticket desk, and the monastery included.