Museo Nacional del Prado

The Museo Nacional del Prado, formally known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the primary national art museum of Spain, located in downtown Madrid. It is widely regarded as housing one of the world's finest collections of European art, extending from the 12th century to the early twentieth century, and the single outstanding collection of Spanish art. It was founded in 1819 as a museum of paintings and sculpture, but it also has significant collections of other sorts of art.

The Museo Nacional del Prado is one of the most visited destinations in the world and is regarded as one of the world's greatest art museums. The collection includes multiple works by Francisco Goya, the single most widely represented artist, as well as works by Hieronymus Bosch, El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, and Diego Velázquez. Velázquez was also responsible for transferring most of the museum's superb collection of Italian masterpieces to Spain, which is currently the largest outside of Italy.

The collection now includes over 8,200 drawings, 7,600 paintings, 4,800 prints, and 1,000 sculptures, as well as numerous other works of art and historical documents. As of 2012, the museum showed over 1,300 pieces in its main buildings, with approximately 3,100 works on temporary loan to other museums and public entities. The rest were in storage.

Location: Calle de Ruiz de Alarcón 23, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid 28014

Website: museodelprado.es