Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, Cultural center in Chamberí, Madrid, Spain.

The Centro Cultural Galileo is a cultural building located at the intersection of Galileo Street, Fernando el Católico Street, and Blasco de Garay Street in Madrid's Chamberí district. Inside, you will find auditoriums, exhibition spaces, and classrooms arranged throughout the structure and accessed through main entrances marked by thermal windows and decorative bell gables.

The building was constructed in 1898 by architect Julio Martínez-Zapata Rodríguez as the garages of the Sociedad de Pompas Fúnebres, the funeral company known as la funeraria Galileo. He extended it himself in 1905, and it occupies much of a block along Galileo, Fernando el Católico and Blasco de Garay streets. In 1985 it became a cultural centre, ending the district's last funeral vestige; the conversion was by Álvaro and Luis Hernández Gómez with María Victoria Haendler Mas.

The ground-floor exhibition hall and the adjoining gardens have been named after José Luis Sampedro since 2018, honouring the writer who lived in Chamberí. The theatre, run by Teatros Luchana since 2019, seats 350 and stages contemporary Spanish drama, with residencies and school projects. The two halls have shown artists such as Ouka Leele, Fernando Bellver and Daniel Garbade, and in 2017 hosted a tribute exhibition to Justa Freire and women teachers of the Second Republic.

The building is accessible through several entrances positioned at different points around the structure. When visiting, allow time to explore the interior layout, as the facility is organized across multiple levels with different types of spaces arranged throughout.

The building was erected in 1898 as the premises of the Sociedad de Pompas Fúnebres, the funeral undertaking known as la funeraria Galileo, and enlarged in 1905. Its chamfered corner rises through several storeys of red brick above a low grey base, with bricked-in window openings and a shallow top floor under a projecting cornice.