The Museo del Prado completes the redesign and rehang of its North Wing galleries

The new installation presented was first envisaged in the Redesign of the Collections of the Museo del Prado Plan, known as the “2009-2012 Action Plan”. It has been implemented through the Museum’s subsequent four-year plans and aims at making full use of all the existing galleries in the Villanueva Building. Following the completion in 2007 of the extension to the Museo del Prado around the Jerónimos Cloister, which resulted in a considerable and extremely useful increase in surface area for both public and internal use, the Museum decided to focus on a new type of extension based on regaining pre-existing galleries in the Villanueva Building that were not being used as display space at the time. The result was to increase the amount of exhibition space, presenting more works of art on permanent display and using more architectural spaces of notable artistic importance, in addition to offering a new, more co