An EU passport is worth exactly 3 euros across Seville’s museum map, and a Saturday is worth another 3.01. A kept Real Alcázar ticket is worth 4.10 more, and the three together bring the bill to zero.
Seville’s six public museums are priced between nothing and 3.01 euros each, so the whole round comes to 10.11 euros for a visitor from outside the EU. That is less than the 15.50 euros of a single Real Alcázar general ticket, which makes the museums worth fitting into any trip, including for visitors from the US, the UK or anywhere else outside the EU who pay full price. What needs planning is the clock: all six close on Mondays, and in summer two of them shut at 3pm.
How much do museums cost in Seville?
No more than 3.01 euros each. The Archivo General de Indias is free for everyone. The Museo de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares charge non-EU visitors 1.50 euros and EU citizens nothing, the Antiquarium 2 euros, Centro Cerámica Triana 2.10 euros, and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo 3.01 euros, free on Saturdays.
What Seville’s museums cost with and without an EU passport
Buying one ticket at each of the six comes to 10.11 euros for a visitor from outside the European Union, and 7.11 euros with accredited EU citizenship, because two of the six stop charging.
| Museum | EU visitor | Non-EU visitor | Run by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla | free | 1.50 euros | Junta de Andalucía |
| Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares | free | 1.50 euros | Junta de Andalucía |
| Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo | 3.01 euros | 3.01 euros | Junta de Andalucía |
| Centro Cerámica Triana | 2.10 euros | 2.10 euros | ICAS |
| Antiquarium | 2 euros | 2 euros | ICAS |
| Archivo General de Indias | free | free | Spanish State |
| All six | 7.11 euros | 10.11 euros | n/a |
The CAAC figure is its complete visit. The regional government splits the site into two routes, the Cartuja monastery and the contemporary art exhibitions, at 1.80 euros each, and sells both together for 3.01 euros.
A UK passport counts as non-EU here. The 1.50 euros the Junta charges at the Bellas Artes and the Artes y Costumbres are waived for accredited EU citizens, and at the Bellas Artes for ICOM members too, so a British visitor pays the same as an American or an Australian. The documents each free-entry route asks for are set out in the guide to Seville’s free museums.
Which ticket gets you in free, owner by owner
Three owners run these six, and their free-entry rules do not recognise each other.
- Junta de Andalucía, the regional government: Bellas Artes and Artes y Costumbres exempt accredited EU citizens, and Bellas Artes ICOM members as well; the CAAC exempts everyone by the clock.
- ICAS, the city council’s culture institute: the Antiquarium, at the 2 euros the ICAS sets, and Centro Cerámica Triana exempt people born in or living in Seville, under-16s, and anyone showing a Real Alcázar general ticket.
- Spanish State: the Archivo General de Indias charges nobody and needs no booking.
The Alcázar route is the one visitors miss. The monument’s price ordinance includes in its 15.50-euro general ticket entry to the Antiquarium, Centro Cerámica Triana, the Bellver-Casa Fabiola museum and the other museum spaces the city runs through the ICAS. The 8-euro reduced ticket does not carry the benefit at the Triana ceramics centre, so keep the general one in your pocket.
Which day to visit, and why Saturday wins
The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo is free for every visitor on Saturdays from 11am to 9pm, which are its opening and closing times, and from 7pm to 9pm Tuesday to Friday. On a Saturday that is the whole day rather than a window, and it ignores nationality and residence alike.
Its effect on the bill is exact. A non-EU visitor doing the round on a Saturday pays 7.10 euros instead of 10.11; an EU visitor pays 4.10 euros. The CAAC timetable and its two routes are covered in the guide to the CAAC and its free Saturday.
Avoid Monday, when all six are shut. On Sunday, go early: the Archivo and the Antiquarium close at 2pm, and the CAAC charges all day before closing at 3.30pm.
Where the six museums are, and getting there
Three sit within an easy walk of each other in the old centre: the Archivo General de Indias, the Antiquarium and the Museo de Bellas Artes. The other three each need a trip of their own, across the river in Triana, on Plaza de América in the María Luisa park, and on the Isla de la Cartuja.
Coming straight from the airport, the EA airport bus stops at Paseo de las Delicias (Almirante Lobo), 347 metres from the Archivo General de Indias, which makes the Archivo the natural first stop with a bag in tow. Within the city, a single ticket on TUSSAM buses costs 1.40 euros, and the cards that bring it down are explained in the guide to Seville transport fares.
- Archivo General de Indias, Avenida de la Constitución 3. Tram T1 stop Archivo de Indias, 83 metres away; metro line 1 at Puerta de Jerez, 345 metres.
- Antiquarium, Plaza de la Encarnación, beneath Las Setas. Bus C5 at Doña María Coronel (San Felipe), 188 metres.
- Museo de Bellas Artes, Plaza del Museo 9. Bus C5 at Cardenal Cisneros (Abad Gordillo), 207 metres.
- Centro Cerámica Triana, Calle Callao 16. Bus 43 at San Jorge (Altozano), 46 metres.
- Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares, Plaza de América 3. Buses 01, 31, 37 and A6 at Avenida La Borbolla (Plaza América), 200 metres; Prado de San Sebastián metro and tram stop, 13 minutes on foot.
- Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Avenida Américo Vespucio 2. Buses 02 and C1 at Américo Vespucio (Monasterio), 230 metres; Cartuja suburban rail station on line C2, 14 minutes on foot.
Missing from the list is the Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla, also on Plaza de América. The Junta de Andalucía has it temporarily closed for building works on its home, so anyone set on its collection should ask the Junta whether any pieces are on show elsewhere.
Seville museum opening hours, summer and Mondays
Two museums under the same administration need not open alike. Outside summer, the week runs like this.
| Museum | Sundays and holidays | Tuesday to Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Archivo General de Indias | 10am to 2pm | 9.30am to 5pm |
| Antiquarium | 10am to 2pm | 10am to 8pm |
| Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo | 10am to 3.30pm | 11am to 9pm |
| Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla | 9am to 3pm | 9am to 9pm |
| Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares | 9am to 3pm | 9am to 9pm |
| Centro Cerámica Triana | 10am to 8pm | 10am to 8pm |
Summer splits the two regional museums that otherwise match. The Bellas Artes switches to 9am to 3pm, Tuesday to Sunday, only through August; the Artes y Costumbres does the same from 16 June to 15 September. The CAAC keeps one timetable all year, so in August it is the only one of the six still open at 9pm.
The time on the sign is not always the last way in. At the Museo de Bellas Artes the galleries close half an hour early, at 8.30pm. Last entry is 4.30pm at the Archivo, 7.30pm at the Antiquarium and 7pm at Centro Cerámica Triana, while the CAAC stops selling tickets half an hour before closing.
Monday is closing day at all six. The Bellas Artes and the Artes y Costumbres open on a Monday that falls on the eve of a public holiday, on holiday hours of 9am to 3pm.
What to see in each
For 1.50 euros, the Bellas Artes holds Murillo, Zurbarán and Valdés Leal, the three names of Sevillian Baroque. At the Archivo the visit is mainly Juan de Herrera’s Casa Lonja, with a small display, as the free visit to the Archivo de Indias explains.
Beneath Las Setas, the Antiquarium shows Roman, Visigothic and Islamic remains found when the square was excavated, and the viewpoint above is a separate ticket covered in the guide to Las Setas tickets and the Antiquarium.
Across the river, Centro Cerámica Triana keeps the kilns of the Cerámica Santa Ana workshop on its ground floor, and pieces Aníbal González designed for the Plaza de España. The CAAC’s complete visit covers the Carthusian monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas and the contemporary art installed inside it, and the folk museum fills the Mudéjar Pavilion on Plaza de América, its first floor temporarily closed, with its hours explained in the guide to the Artes y Costumbres museum.
Frequently asked questions about museum prices in Seville
How much do Seville’s museums cost?
Between nothing and 3.01 euros each. Nobody pays at the Archivo General de Indias, the Museo de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares charge 1.50 euros, the Antiquarium 2 euros and Centro Cerámica Triana 2.10 euros. The dearest is the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo: 1.80 euros for the monument or the exhibitions, 3.01 euros for both.
Are Seville museums free for non-EU visitors?
The Archivo General de Indias is free for everyone, and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo is free for everyone all day on Saturday and from 7pm to 9pm Tuesday to Friday. The Antiquarium and Centro Cerámica Triana are free with a Real Alcázar general ticket. Bellas Artes and Artes y Costumbres charge a non-EU visitor 1.50 euros, though Bellas Artes lets everyone in free on five commemorative dates a year.
Which Seville museum stays open latest?
The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, to 9pm from Tuesday to Saturday all year. Bellas Artes also runs to 9pm except in August, and the Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares except from 16 June to 15 September.
Do Seville museums close on Mondays?
All six public museums close on Mondays. Bellas Artes and Artes y Costumbres Populares open on a Monday that falls on the eve of a public holiday, on holiday hours of 9am to 3pm.
Book the monuments carefully and keep the Alcázar ticket. All six museums together cost less than that one ticket did.