The Prado Museum, in the Top 10 of the world’s best rated museums
27 March, 2024The Prado Museum, one of the most iconic museums in Spain, is one of the Top 10 most highly rated museums in the world by visitors, according to a study by Iglu Cruise, which places it close to other important museums, such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among others.
Specifically, the Prado Museum is in sixth place in the world ranking, just after the National Gallery in London, and before the Victoria and Albert Museum, also located in the British capital, in a list in which the Louvre in Paris is in tenth place in the ranking.
The Prado Museum’s inventory of artistic assets includes over 35,000 objects, comprising 8,045 paintings, 9,561 drawings, 5,973 prints and 34 print matrices, 971 sculptures (plus 154 fragments), 1,189 pieces of decorative arts, 38 weapons and armour, 2,155 medals and coins, as well as over 15,000 photographs and 155 maps.