Prado announces changes to avoid being like ‘the Metro at rush hour’ ‘The Prado doesn’t need a single visitor more,’ said the museum’s director The Independent UK · Jan 22
How Madrid’s Prado Museum is trying to avoid becoming like ‘the Metro at rush-hour’ The famous gallery, home to masterpieces from Goya and Velázquez, is exploring how best to preserve, and improve, the visitor experience The Guardian - UK · Jan 17
Prado cannot be like ‘the Metro at rush hour’, says Madrid museum’s chief Record 3.5 million visited in 2025 and plans are afoot to ensure gallery does not become overburdened like Louvre The Guardian - UK · Jan 15
Prado show aims to highlight true colours of polychrome sculpture Madrid exhibition intends to rescue the technique – coloured paint applied to statues – from centuries of indifference The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2024
‘Beat the heat’: Madrid looks to cool off with culture amid climate crisis Initiative aims to coax visitors and local people into air-conditioned venues during sweltering summer afternoons The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2024
Lost Caravaggio that was nearly sold for €1,500 goes on display at Prado in Madrid Museum’s experts realised painter’s Ecce Homo had been misattributed in auction catalogue The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2024
Climate activists glue themselves to frames of two Goya paintings in Madrid The two protesters did not damage the works but ‘caused their frames slight blemishes’ the Prado museum says The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2022
Prado creates palette of odours to make scents of Brueghel painting Madrid gallery’s new exhibition will allow visitors to inhale fragrances of 10 items seen in The Sense of Smell The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2022