Flamenco Dance Museum

About Flamenco Dance Museum

The Museo del Baile Flamenco is a museum and performance venue in an 18th-century palace on Calle Manuel Rojas Marcos, in Seville's old town a short walk from the cathedral. It was led into being by the dancer Cristina Hoyos, for many years Antonio Gades's dance partner, from an idea first put forward in 2001, and opened in April 2006.

The house is built around one of the few surviving Écija-style courtyards in Seville, and the visit circles it. The interactive first-floor museum explains flamenco's history, styles and costumes with screens, objects linked to artists of the last two centuries and a large semicircular screen showing choreography. Other rooms hold the photographer Colita's flamenco pictures, Jean Lamouroux's paintings of Gades and Hoyos productions such as Carmen and Blood Wedding, and temporary exhibitions of flamenco-inspired art.

The courtyard doubles as a tablao, with several short shows a day, and the vaulted basement, built with reused Roman and earlier stones, stages a more intimate performance as well as classes. Tickets can combine the museum and a show; check current times on the museum's website.

Seville is best in spring or autumn. Visit the galleries in late afternoon, when the city's heat drives people indoors, then stay for an early-evening show.

Flamenco Dance Museum in pictures

What you’ll find

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• Museum galleriesMuseum visitTicket
• Museum gift shopSouvenir purchaseBuy
• Museum workshopChildren educationBook

Nearby places to visit

Several of Seville's main sights are within a 15-minute walk. Painter Amalio Museum (500 m), the house and studio of the painter Amalio García del Moral in the Santa Cruz quarter, is closed for maintenance, and the Museum of Seville Cathedral (500 m) displays the cathedral's treasures, including Juan de Arfe's silver monstrance. For families, Minigolf Sevilla (500 m) is an indoor glow-in-the-dark course. Down by the river, the Naval Museum Torre del Oro (900 m) fills the Almohad watchtower, while the Seville Museum of Fine Arts (900 m), in a former convent, is the place to see Murillo and Zurbarán.