The artworks in this exhibition movingly examine and highlight the lives of Spain’s lower classes decades before the country’s bloody civil war. A Workers’ Strike in Vizcaya, Vicente Cutanda, ...

Madrid’s Prado Museum has confirmed that a painting which almost sold for the price of a Macbook at auction is in fact a long lost work of the Italian master painter worth tens of millions. In 2021, ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Recent years have ...

Conservation group WWF and the Prado Museum have joined forces to raise the alarm about the impact of climate change, as political leaders and diplomats meet at the COP25 climate change summit in the ...

According to Spanish media outlet El País, Foster + Partners and Rubio Arquitectura have won an international ideas competition to design the new addition of the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The team ...

Perhaps the most famous of Madrid’s cultural treasures, the Museo del Prado was founded in 1819 as a public showcase for Spain’s royal art collection. Since then, the national institution has far ...

Miguel Falomir Faus has a foot in two eras of the Museo del Prado. The Madrid museum celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, and Falomir is very much part of its history. Before becoming its ...

Nearly five years after a team led by Foster + Partners and Madrid-based studio Rubio Arquitectura was tapped to lead the dramatic expansion of Museo Nacional del Prado, the long-stalled project will ...

Designed by Juan de Villanueva in 1785, King Charles III decreed the building was to house a natural history museum. By the time it was completed however, his grandson, Ferdinand VII, decided to use ...