Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, in central Madrid. Opened to the public in 1819, it grew out of the Spanish royal collections and now holds one of the world's finest gatherings of European art from the twelfth to the early twentieth century.

The collection is particularly strong in Spanish painting, with definitive holdings of Velázquez, Goya, and El Greco, alongside major works by Bosch, Titian, Rubens, and Dürer from centuries of Habsburg and Bourbon patronage.