The Museum of Romanticism reaches its record number of visitors this March with more than 26,000 people

The National Museum of Romanticism has reached its historical maximum number of visitors this March, reaching 26,000 people.

It is about an increase of 146% compared to the same month in 2025when it registered 10,549 visitors. That year, the maximum was in August with 12,113 people and in total, the art gallery received 115,472 visits.

This maximum, explained by the Museum, has coincided with the opening of Café del Jardín and its new store-bookstoreas well as with the exhibition ‘Echoes of Romantic Fashion’. These 26,000 visitors in March exceed the figures for the centenary, celebrated in 2024, by 26,000.

Thus, in the month of March the Café del Jardín reopened, renovated, with an extension and a new design and decoration. “It incorporates a new and cozy tea room with nineteenth-century-inspired furniture that dialogues with the aesthetics and spirit of the 19th century, in coherence with the identity of the museum,” the gallery explains in a statement.

Along with the Café, it has also reopened the museum’s bookstorewhich offers a selection of items and jewelry inspired by the pieces in the collection, and publications dedicated to the 19th century, literature and art of Romanticism, including adaptations for children.

On the other hand, and until June 7, you can visit the temporary exhibition ‘Echoes of romantic fashion’curated by Josep Casamartina i Parassols and Ismael Núñez Muñoz, which brings together more than 40 pieces of clothing from the Fundació Antoni de Montpalau and created by prominent designers of the 20th and 21st centuries such as Manuel Pertegaz, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Flora Villarreal, Bibian Blue, Elio Berhanyer, Teresa Helbig, Josep Font, Sybilla or Pedro Rodríguez, among others.

A monographic room with figurines and costumes by the couturier is also dedicated to the latter, co-founder of the Haute Couture Cooperative in 1940.

In addition, as a result of a recent collaboration with Netflix and until May 17, they have incorporated three costumes created by Ana Locking, María Escoté and Palomo Spain that reinterpret the universe of the series ‘The Bridgertons’with a nineteenth-century setting, exploring history as a source of inspiration for contemporary fashion and the role of entertainment in its dissemination and popularization.