The collections of the Museo del Prado have a range of different origins. It was initially the former collection of the Spanish monarchy, a collection assembled in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, up to the time of the Museum’s opening in 1819. After that date the Museo del Prado added collections from defunct institutions, such as the Museo de la Trinidad which contributed a large number of works of ecclesiastical origin, or the Museo de Arte Moderno which brought us holdings of late 19th- and early 20th-century painting. Aside from that, since its foundation in 1819 the Museo del Prado has acquired works and has received different bequests and donations. All this together constitutes the present collections of the Museo del Prado.

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