More than twenty art, history and science exhibitions await you in the city's museums, galleries and cultural spaces
How many exhibitions fit in one summer? In València, more than twenty.
Countless museums, galleries and spaces across the city open their doors with proposals ranging from contemporary art to Roman history, basketball, solar eclipses and much more.
Here are all the exhibitions you have to see before August comes to an end.
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In the 18th century, a doctor convinced half the world that an invisible magnetic fluid existed, capable of curing any illness. Mexican artist Pablo Helguera uses this historic con to ask the question that heads this exhibition: why, well into the 21st century, do we still fall for the same tricks?
«A Brief History of a Passion»
Avelino Marín and Luis Leao fell so deeply in love with art that they built an entire house to hold more than 1,800 different pieces. At the CCCC you can see a hundred of them —by Rembrandt, Manet, Matisse, Sempere— displayed across four rooms that recreate that home.
«34 Illustrious Figures by 34 Illustrators»
This exhibition pays tribute to figures from sculpture from the late 19thcentury to today, but completely reinvented by 34 contemporary illustrators such as Carla Fuentes or María Herreros, who have taken the essence of these masters and transformed it in their own style.
We often walk on the ground without thinking about everything it hides. This group exhibition invites you to stop and do just that, and to reflect on humanity's impact on the planet.
Through the works of artists such as Juana Francés and Miguel Sbastida, you'll see the Earth's surface as something alive in its own right, holding the memories of what we do today for future generations.
«Rocío Garriga. Verse Expuest_»
Artist Rocío Garriga starts from a very specific historical event: the bombing of Hamburg Zoo during the Second World War, to talk about vulnerability. She does so through photos, documents and contemporary art pieces.
IVAM
An immersive installation on the ground floor of the IVAM that recreates an underground ecosystem with live plants, a rhizotron to watch roots grow in real time, blown-glass sculptures, projections and surround sound with eight speakers.
«Cristina de Middel. Apoteosis Now»
252 photographs that seem chaotic at first glance but hide an order based on colour-driven games. Each group of images tells a small story; you just have to stop and really look at them.
Paintings, photographs and documents to help you understand l'Albufera as a territory where nature, biodiversity and human hands have coexisted for centuries.
How much has the way of life and use of this environment changed since the mid-19th century?
What if stones, earth and even power grids were living beings that feel and suffer? Valencian artist Irene Grau and Italian artist Marco Giordano, with 52 works, will make you reflect on our relationship with the planet.
«Women in the Work of Julio González»
The IVAM is devoting all of 2026 to sculptor Julio González with the exhibition «Women in the Work of Julio González», a show that addresses themes such as the female nude, motherhood and memory.
Fundación Bancaja
«Tàpies. The Final Decade (2002-2012)» shows how Antoni Tàpies kept his capacity to innovate intact right to the end: textures, reliefs, cracks, collage and assemblage.
An artist who exhibited at MOMA and the Tate Gallery, now just a step away from you.
Picasso, Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Eduardo Chillida, Miquel Barceló, Carmen Calvo, Manolo Valdés... Around 60 iconic artists in a dialogue between the Fundación Bancaja collection and that of ABANCA, tracing the artistic evolution of the 20th and 21st centuries.
More exhibitions in other museums and spaces around València
«The Legend of the Titanic» - Bombas Gens
The world's largest immersive exhibition about the Titanic docks in València. Through 360° video-mapping installations, virtual reality and also original objects and pieces from James Cameron's film, it will tell you the story of the world's most famous ocean liner without leaving the city.
«Música y Matemáticas» - CaixaForum
Did you know that behind every musical note there's an equation? The exhibition «Música y Matemáticas. A Sound Journey from Chaos to Cosmos» shows you how sound works, what harmonics are, why a melody moves us, and what Pythagoras has in common with today's electronic music.
«València Queer» - Museu de la Ciutat
Nine rooms in the Palau del Marqués de Campo with paintings, sculptures, photographs, textile art, immersive installations and urban art. All created by artists connected to València —from National Award winner Miquel Navarro to Eva Máñez or La Nena Wapa Wapa— as part of the Gay Games.
Valencia Basket Museum & Tour - Roig Arena
Have you ever wanted to know what Valencia Basket looks like from the inside? Roig Arena opens its doors with a guided tour taking you through the club's historic area, where you'll measure up against the players thanks to a smart wristband and, calendar permitting, step into the tunnel leading out onto the court.
Virtual Reality Exhibition on the Solar Eclipse - Las Naves
On 12 August 2026, València will experience a total solar eclipse not seen on the peninsula in over a century, and Las Naves has an immersive virtual reality exhibition to show you what the solar corona is like and how that perfect alignment between the Sun and the Moon is achieved.
«The Legacy, the Clicks Make History» - Museo Histórico Militar
Playmobil once again takes centre stage in a free exhibition for all ages featuring six large-format dioramas recreating historic episodes: Fray Junípero Serra's expedition to California, the exploits of Bernardo de Gálvez in Pensacola and much more. A large part of the history of Spain in miniature!
«Rubens. The Flourishing of a Genius» - Museo de Bellas Artes
This exhibition reveals the formative years and the Italian period that turned Rubens into the visual driving force of the great European courts. You'll be able to see almost unknown sketches and pieces from the Museo del Prado, the Albertina in Vienna or the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua.
«The Holy Chalice» - Almudín
The cup that tradition says Jesus used at the Last Supper has its own visitor centre in the Almudín. Free audio guide, explanatory panels, a touchscreen with historical documents and projections — all in a beautiful medieval 15th-century building.
«The Transformations of the Holy Chalice»- Museo Catedralicio
In this exhibition you'll see eighteen replicas of the upper cup of the Holy Chalice, made of glass, resin, quartz and carved agates, showing what the relic looked like before the transformations it has undergone over the centuries.
«Anselm Kiefer» - CAHH
The first major solo exhibition of Anselm Kiefer is hosted by the CAHH in six rooms built to the millimetre for this exhibition. Among the most striking pieces is «Danaë», a painting more than thirteen metres wide that had only ever been seen in New York.
«Rome in Miniature» - Museo L'Iber
Here you can admire more than 2,000 hand-painted figures spanning twelve centuries of Roman history. The most spectacular piece: the model of the siege of Sarmizegetusa, an extraordinarily precise reconstruction of Emperor Trajan's conquest of the Dacian capital in the year 106 AD.
