The Museum of the Prado opened a digital archive with nearly 12.000 documents on the history of the collection of the institution and the Spanish cultural history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, available for free on its website www.museodelprado.es.
In this way, Madrid museum first opened to the public its historical archives, “championing the cause of free dissemination of information”, They are according to a statement broadcast on.
It is a digital fund that meets almost 12.000 documents, which include the appointment of Pablo Picasso directorial 1936, and personal files Madrazo family, Valentin Carderera, one of the most important figures in the Spanish art scene in the nineteenth century. The file custody documents produced and received by the institution in the exercise of its activities since its inauguration in 1819, as Royal Museum of Paintings.