The Prado, Picked by Visitors
A Museo del Prado board where the museum repins works from its collection saved by ordinary users: Goya, Velázquez, Titian, Murillo.
What it is
"Tus pins del Prado / Your pins from the Prado" is a Pinterest board run by Madrid's Museo del Prado, and it works differently from most museum boards. The museum doesn't post its own selections here. It gathers what ordinary users save: the description says the board repins images from the collection that people show on their own boards.
The result is a map of what visitors actually love. There are over 120 pins: Goya's "Two Friars", the portrait of María Luisa of Parma, Velázquez's "The Medici Gardens in Rome", Titian's "The Burial of Christ", Murillo's "Triumph of the Eucharist", Drouais's portrait of Madame du Barry, and work by Francisco de Paula van Halen. Pins from the museum's own online gallery sit alongside them.
Captions come in a mix of languages because different people wrote them: some Spanish, some English, some just the artist's name. The board description is bilingual, Spanish and English.
Why we picked it
The Prado is one of the great collections of European painting, but its official exhibition boards on Pinterest went quiet years ago. This one was kept up longer than the rest, and it offers something the museum's website can't: an outside view. You see which paintings people really keep for themselves, and it is not only the textbook hits like "Las Meninas".
That makes it a good way into the collection. Instead of thousands of catalogue entries you get a hundred-odd works, each chosen by someone on purpose. Many pins link to the Prado's online gallery, so it is easy to jump from a painting you like to its full description.
It is also just a pleasure to scroll: court portraits, religious scenes, landscapes and Italian masters from the Spanish royal collection in one feed.
Where to start
- Find Goya's "Two Friars", one of the Black Paintings; next to the formal portraits it hits especially hard.
- Open Velázquez's "The Medici Gardens in Rome", a small landscape that surprises people who know him only for portraits.
- Compare María Luisa of Parma with Madame du Barry for two takes on 18th-century court fashion.
- Follow a pin marked "Galería online" to see how the museum's online catalogue is organised.
- Browse the profile's other boards, such as "Legado Bosch" on the Bosch legacy.
Who it's for
Anyone planning a trip to Madrid who wants a preview of the collection. Art history students and self-taught enthusiasts looking for a living list of works that grab viewers. Artists who need references from the old masters. And anyone who simply wants more Goya and Velázquez in their feed.
No Spanish needed: the artists' names are familiar and the board description is in English too.
Quick answers
Who runs this board? The official Museo Nacional del Prado account on Pinterest.
Where do the pins come from? The museum repins images of its own works from users' boards.
How often is it updated? Not often: the latest pins at the time we checked were from 2024, but the board stays public and coherent.
