Carmen Thyssen Museum of Malaga is located in the Palacio de Villalon, a palatial building of the sixteenth century whose recovery has led to value a key part of Malaga Renaissance architecture, based on the Roman and the Muslim city.

The collection has about 200 works, mainly starring Spanish painting of the nineteenth century, with special attention to the Andalusian painting.

The Museum offers a space dedicated to the Old Masters formed by blocks of Francisco de Zurbarán and Jerome Ezquerra and others. The rest of the gallery, which retains the bulk of the collection, shows the audience a tour of the nineteenth century Spanish (from Romanticism to the beginnings of modernity) through a careful selection of works by artists such as Valeriano Domînguez-Becquer, Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, Josê Jimênez Aranda, Josê Moreno Carbonero, Guillermo Gómez Gil, Mariano Fortuny, Raimundo de Madrazo, Emilio Sala, Carlos de Haes, Antonio Maria Reyne Manescau, Ramon Marti Alsina, Aureliano de Beruete, Ignacio Pinazo Antonio Muñoz Degrain, Modest Urgell, Eliseu Meifrên, Ricard Canals, Ramon Casas, Francisco Iturrino, Cecilio Pla, Dario de Regoyos, Julio Romero de Torres, Joaquin Sorolla and Ignacio Zuloaga.