Public building · Madrid

Real Museo de Pinturas

Today: Museo del Prado, Madrid

Place: Madrid
Kind: Public building
Built: 1785 to 1819
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The building Juan de Villanueva designed in 1785 on Carlos III's orders for the Royal Cabinet of Natural History, part of the remaking of the Salón del Prado; it was half built when the French invasion left it wrecked. Fernando VII and his wife Isabel of Braganza rescued it as a museum of paintings, which opened on 19 November 1819. It is the Museo Nacional del Prado, enlarged several times since.

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