Prado Museum-Madrid
one of the great art museums of the world
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the Prado Museum it's the best pictures museum of the world, it's full of Velazquez's, Goya's, Rubens's, Tiziano's, El Bosco's... paintings, it's just wonderful!!

Thank you oduguy1999 for all these posts about Madrid, my city!! You're a wonderful ambassador and I' ve seen you know very well the culture, the monuments, the history, the way of life... thanks for the pics too!!

10/10 for its priceless art collection.
7/10 for the building.


Some history about this museum...

The Prado Museum is renowned as being the largest art gallery in the world. It also exhibits sculptures, drawings, coins and other works of arts, but it is undoubtedly its large collection of paintings which has given it fame worldwide. It houses more than 8,600 paintings, of which they exhibit less than 2,000 because of lack of space available. Many museums throughout the world have less artistic riches in their halls than the Prado Museum has in storage.

The present day art gallery comes from the royal collections of the old Trinidad Museum, as well as acquisitions, donations and bequests.

Its history began during the reign of Charles III, when he tried to create a single art collection under one roof. But it was not until the reign of Fernando VII when the Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture was created, on 19th November 1819. The kings death caused inheritance problems and endangered the unity of the collection, but with the disappearance of the monarchy in Spain the museum became national property and became known as the Prado National Museum.

From then to this date, the works of art have survived several challenges and were transferred several times during the Spanish Civil War, ending up in the Swiss city of Geneva and being returned to Madrid during the Second World War.

Nowadays, its treasures are exhibited in two adjacent buildings : the Villanueva Building where the majority of the works are housed, and the Cason del Buen Retiro.

8/10

looks really nice

Very good museum with nice design
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this is a great build and one the better museum in the world

The building itself is not a masterpiece.
btw,you made a wrong poll...

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WRONG POLL

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the building itself is a great piece of neo-classical architecture, and the painting collection is superb. perhaps it's not the best art museum, but possibly the best painting museum in the world.

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8/10 wrong poll

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9/10 !

9/10- very nice. i like the inside better though.

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10!

I love it

9. cute!

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Poll fixed. :)

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9. Very good. Regards.

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