Record 3.5 million visited in 2025 and plans are afoot to ensure gallery doesn’t become victim of its success like Louvre The head of the Prado has said the Madrid art museum doesn’t need “a single visitor more” after it welcomed a record 3.5 million people last year, adding that plans are being drawn up to ensure it doesn’t become a victim of its own success like the Louvre in Paris. In 2025, the Prado, which is home to such masterpieces as Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, was visited by 3,513,402 people – an increase of more than 56,000 from the previous year. Visitor numbers have also risen by more than 816,000 people over the past decade. Continue reading...