Museo Nacional del Prado
Madrid, Spain
The Museo Nacional del Prado is Spain's principal national art museum, located in central Madrid. It opened to the public in 1819 as a royal museum to display the Spanish Crown's collections, and is housed in a neoclassical building designed by the architect Juan de Villanueva that had originally been intended as a natural history cabinet.
The Prado holds one of the world's finest collections of European painting, with particular strength in Spanish art and the works of Velázquez, Goya and El Greco, as well as major holdings of Titian, Rubens, Bosch and other Italian, Flemish and northern masters drawn from the former royal collections.