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Sea Life Benalmádena is an aquarium at the Puerto Marina in Benalmádena Costa, one of the Sea Life centres of Merlin Entertainments. Its route leads through themed zones including an underwater tunnel, a ray pool, a wetlands area and an otter enclosure, with scheduled feedings and talks during the day.

The Colección del Museo Ruso is a municipal art centre in Málaga's former Royal Tobacco Factory of 1929. It opened in 2015 as a branch of the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg; after those loans ended in 2022, the city kept it open with exhibitions of Russian and other art lent by private collectors, alongside the MEET temporary exhibition space.

The Automobile and Fashion Museum occupies part of Málaga's former Royal Tobacco Factory in the Huelin district and opened in 2010. About 90 cars from 1898 onwards, by makers such as Hispano-Suiza, Bugatti, Rolls-Royce and Ferrari, are shown in themed rooms, alongside haute couture and a collection of hats from the 1920s to the 1950s.

The Carmen Thyssen Museum opened in 2011 in the 16th-century Palacio de Villalón and new galleries built beside it in Málaga's old town. Drawn from the collection of Carmen Cervera, it centres on 19th-century Spanish painting, mainly Andalusian, with older works such as Zurbarán's Saint Marina; excavations on the site uncovered Roman remains.

The Museo de Málaga joins the city's fine arts and archaeology collections in the Palacio de la Aduana, a neoclassical customs house begun in 1791 beside the Parque de Málaga. Opened there in 2016, it shows paintings and sculpture from the 16th to the 20th century, including works by Murillo, Ribera and Sorolla, and finds from prehistory to the Middle Ages.

Centre Pompidou Málaga, opened in 2015, was the first branch of the Paris Centre Pompidou outside France. It sits in El Cubo, a low building at the port designed by city architects Javier Pérez de la Fuente and Juan Antonio Marín Malavé, topped by a glass cube coloured by Daniel Buren. The galleries below show works from the Paris collection and temporary exhibitions.

The Picasso Birthplace Museum is in the house on Plaza de la Merced where Pablo Picasso was born in 1881, part of a block of apartment buildings completed in 1872. Run by the city of Málaga, it shows family mementoes, works by Picasso and by his father José Ruiz Blasco, and prints and ceramics, with temporary exhibitions at No. 13 next door.