The new Sorolla Museum will open its doors to the public in early 2026 with a new surface area of nearly 5,500 square meters (more than double its current size).
As mentioned, the Museum is immersed in a key strategic shift. One that transcends architecture, since the scope of this action will completely transform it as a museum.
Once work at the Museum is complete it will no longer be the same. It will maintain its original essence and soul—the Sorolla Home—but its personality will be simultaneously enriched. The new spaces will allow the Museum to offer new services and thus a greater program of exhibitions and cultural activities to broader and more diverse audiences, in tune with the demands of present-day society.
New perspectives, new dialogues, new approaches, and new readings centered on Sorolla, his work, his life, and his context.
For this reason, we claim that the expansion is not solely architectural. It starts within the Museum’s architecture, but goes beyond. More than an architectural intervention, one must consider this a comprehensive project that will have repercussions on the institution as a whole, on all of the Museum’s working areas, on its organizational model, resources, and staff.
All of this requires a general rethinking and update of the Sorolla Museum in view of its new reality. The new Sorolla Museum will expand its vision and broaden its objectives while maintaining its mission.
Therefore, while expansion and rehabilitation work is underway, the institution is working tirelessly on planning the new Sorolla Museum in collaboration with other organisms within the Spanish Ministry of Culture.