13/01/2009

With the launch of a new project by Google, the Museo del Prado becomes the first museum in the world to offer high-resolution images of its masterpieces for access and navigation on the Internet. These images will reveal details invisible to the naked eye of paintings such as Las Meninas and The Three Graces.

17/11/2008

HM the King inaugurated today the exhibition Among Gods and Men. Classical Sculptures from the Albertinum in Dresden and the Museo del Prado in which the Prado presents for the first time outside Germany the key works of one of the best collections of historical sculpture in Europe, the Skulpturensammlung Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. The exhibition, labelled by the Directors of both institution as exceptional, due to the fragility of the works and transportation difficulties taking into account the dimensions and weight of many of the pieces, runs through 12 April.

17/11/2008

Plácido Arango, president of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo del Prado, Miguel Zugaza, director of the Prado, and other senior representatives of the Prado today met the members of the Board of Trustees of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, led by its president, María Luisa Ferré, and the Museum’s director, Augustín Arteaga. They had travelled to Spain in order to sign the agreement that will allow the Prado to present the exhibition The Sleeping Beauty. Victorian Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce

30/09/2008

The Autonomous Region of Aragón thus becomes the starting-point for the second phase in the Travelling Prado programme. The first part of this programme involved the presentation of two exhibitions, The Spanish Portrait in the Prado: from El Greco to Goya, and The Spanish Portrait in the Prado: from El Greco to Sorolla, each shown in six different locations around Spain. These exhibitions received a total of 582,020 visitors, a figure that demonstrates the success of an initiative that was first launched in March 2006.

26/06/2008

Update on research on The Colossus

03/06/2008

3 june - 7 september

03/06/2008

Starting this week, the new issue of Prado magazine will be available in the Museum's shop. This magazine, the first issue of which was published last year, is a biligual publication in Spanish and English with contributions signed by prestigious guests such as, in this issue, the photographers Gianni Berengo Gardin and Attilio Maranzano, the essayist, poet and playwright Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Príncipe de Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities in 2002, or the architect and Professor Juan José Lahuerta, amongst others The magazine includes the documentary in DVD Patinir and the Invention of Landscape.

04/02/2008

Over the course of 2007, the Museo del Prado received 2,652,924 visitors. This figure reflects both the general increase evident over the past few years, which has been directly related to the Museum’s major temporary exhibitions, and the interest aroused by the new expansion, which was completed and inaugurated in 2007.

30/10/2007

Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain and Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias, accompanied by the President of the Government, the Minister of Culture and other dignitaries open the extension of the Museo del Prado.

15/10/2007

Following its sponsorship of the creation and installation of the Museum’s new website, www.museodelprado.es, which offers new and universal access to the Museum, Telefónica is now consolidating its association with the Prado in its role as Benefactor with the intention of completely developing its Visitor Services programme over the next four years. Monday 15 October 2007