Fallas Museum in Valencia: opening hours, prices and the mix-up with the Guild Museum
The Fallas Museum has kept the pardoned ninots for decades, opens Tuesday to Sunday and costs a couple of euros. Here are its three price versions, how it differs from the Guild Museum and when to go without queuing.
The Fallas Museum (Museo Fallero), at Plaza de Monteolivete 4, keeps the ninots that the public pardons each year and that therefore escape the Cremà, the final burning. It opens Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 to 19:00, Sundays and public holidays 10:00 to 14:00, closed on Mondays, and its price depends on which source you check.
This page sorts out those versions, separates the museum from its near namesake, the Guild Museum, and tells you which days are least crowded.
How much does it cost and when is it open?
Three sources give three prices, and none is a misreading: each describes a different moment or document.
| Source | Price | Free entry |
|---|---|---|
| Visit Valencia, 2026 | €2 standard and €1 for groups, pensioners and Carnet Jove holders | Under-16s, Sundays and public holidays |
| City Council document, 2024 | €3 on weekdays and free on public holidays | public holidays |
| Price guide to the municipal museums (valenciavalencia.com), 2026 | not given | On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays |
The Visit Valencia rate is the most recent and the one guides repeat, at €2 full price and €1 reduced. Free Saturday entry only appears in one of the three sources, so do not count on it without asking at the ticket desk.
Last entry does not match either: Visit Valencia sets it at 18:00, and at 13:00 on Sundays and public holidays, while the municipal listing says at 18:00 or 18:15 depending on the listing. The museum is also closed on 1 and 6 January, 1 May and 25 December.
Fallas Museum or Guild Museum?
Search engines mix the two up, and they are not interchangeable. One shows what the festival decides to save; the other shows the craft of the people who build the monuments.
| Fallas Museum | Museum of the Guild of Fallas Artists | |
|---|---|---|
| Where | Plaza de Monteolivete, next to the City of Arts and Sciences | Ciudad del Artista Fallero, Benicalap |
| What you see | Pardoned ninots, posters, portraits of the Falleras Mayores | Workshops, techniques and scale models of the craft |
| 2026 opening hours | Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 to 19:00, Sundays and public holidays 10:00 to 14:00, closed on Mondays | Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00 and 16:00 to 19:00; Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 14:00 and 15:00 to 19:00 |
| Price | €2 standard and €1 for groups, pensioners and Carnet Jove holders | €2 full price and €1 reduced |
| Reduced or free | Under-16s free | reduced for under-12s, pensioners and people with disabilities |
| Long closure | not published | The whole of August |
The Guild Museum has its own contradiction: its 2023 listing gave Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 14:00 and 16:00 to 19:00, Saturdays 10:00 to 13:30 and €3 full price, €2 for under-12s and pensioners. If Sunday is your only free day, that difference decides whether you find the door open.
Eleven months a year, the Museo Fallero is the only way to see ninots up close. It is a few minutes' walk from the City of Arts and Sciences: staying in that area lets you link the museum, the Oceanogràfic and the Turia riverbed without taking transport.
See places to stay in Valencia →Affiliate link: booking through it supports the site at no extra cost to you.What is inside, and how long does it take?
The collection brings together the pardoned ninots, the figures that a popular vote saves from the bonfire each year. Alongside them are festival posters, portraits of Falleras Mayores and documents showing how the satire has changed over time.
The City Council counted more than 112,000 visitors from 120 countries in 2024, and offers free guided tours lasting 90 minutes. On your own, a comfortable visit takes about an hour and a quarter: that is our estimate, as the museum publishes no duration.
Does the museum replace the fallas in the street?
No, and no guide says so clearly. The museum shows individual pieces; the street shows monuments several storeys high, lit up at night and surrounded by noise, that exist for only a few days.
If you come in March, you can go inside the fenced area of the Sección Especial fallas from 16 to 19 March, usually from 10:00 to 22:00, closing at around 18:00 on 19 March. The paid products for doing so have no single price, and it pays not to confuse them.
| Product | Published price | Year and seller |
|---|---|---|
| Pass for 9 Sección Especial fallas | €15 per adult and €12 for ages 4 to 12 | 2024, Valencia Bonita |
| Entry to 9 Sección Especial fallas | From €17 | 2026, Visit Valencia shop |
| Guided tour inside the fallas | €19 per adult and €15 for ages 4 to 12 | 2026, Visit Valencia |
None of the three is a "Fallas ticket", which does not exist: the street is free. Activities and guided walks in Valencia make sense if you want someone to explain the satire of each monument.
The nights from 16 to 19 March are the only ones when you can go inside the big fallas, and they are also the first to sell out. Booking months ahead is the difference between sleeping in the centre and sleeping an hour away by metro.
See hotels from 15 to 20 March →Affiliate link: booking through it supports the site at no extra cost to you.When should you go to avoid queuing?
Nobody publishes visitor numbers by the hour, so what follows is a practical reading of the opening hours, not a measurement. Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at opening time is the quietest moment outside March.
Sunday is free but short: between 10:00 and the 13:00 last entry there are three hours, and free entry concentrates the crowds. In the middle of Fallas week, the road closures around the City of Arts and Sciences lengthen any journey to Monteolivete.
Photo: Richie Diesterheft from Chicago, IL, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
If the museum is one stop in a wider plan, the list of what opens and closes each day is in what to see in Valencia depending on the day, and the other free museums in free things to do in Valencia this weekend.
What isn't published
None of the sources we consulted gives visitor numbers by day or hour, or says whether the museum opens longer during Fallas week. Nor is there an identified online sales channel for general admission: you buy at the ticket desk.
The Fallas 2027 programme had not been published as of 28 September 2026. To understand what happens on each day of March, the full guide is in the Fallas festival in Valencia, and the monument count in how many fallas there are in Valencia.
Sources
Visit Valencia, listings for the Fallas Museum and the Museum of the Guild of Fallas Artists, consulted in September 2026; Sección Especial ticket shop and booking page for the 2026 Fallas interior tour. Valencia City Council, Museu Faller information sheet (2024) and 2024 visitor figures. Valenciavalencia.com, prices of the municipal museums (2026). Valencia Bonita, Sección Especial pass (2024).
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Neus Ferrer
Neus has belonged to a falla commission since the age of eight and has seen twenty monuments go up. She knows which streets are closed from the day before and at what time the mascletà can no longer be heard from the centre. She does not recommend a spot where she has not stood for hours.
