Canal Prado centralizes more than four decades of audiovisual content from the museum

He Prado Museum lanza Prado Channel, a repository hosted on your website that brings together, organizes and makes accessible all the videos created by the institution, from thematic series to interviews, conferences and outreach pieces, with periodically scheduled special offers.

Canal Prado was born as a unique space where the public can discover, organize and revisit the Museum's audiovisual contents, with special attention to formats that transcend current events and remain valid over time. The channel will organize interviews, dialogues and monologues, and will grow continuously with new series and episodes.

The first series available is Think about the Prado, a production that asks what knowledge art provides, why we value it, how artistic judgments change or how long it takes to paint a picture. The answers are formulated from the rigor of a deep knowledge of the history of art and with an informative vocation.: It is not a showcase of new developments from the Prado Museum, but a reflective background designed to accompany the viewer over time.

The person responsible for the content and presenter of Think about the Prado es Alejandro Vergara, Prado Museum professional since 1999, most of the time as head of the collections of Flemish painting and northern schools, and curator of numerous exhibitions. Doctor in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts (New York University), He has been a professor at Columbia University (New York) and at the Carlos III University of Madrid, among other institutions.

art stories

The content platform art stories, which has had the generous sponsorship of the Ramón Areces Foundation, makes available to society the exceptional audiovisual archive that the Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation has been creating throughout its history, more than thirty years of courses, cycles of conferences and other activities aimed at disseminating knowledge about the Prado Museum and art in general. With the aim of becoming a reference place where you can learn and enjoy art, this living space will be enriched year after year with new content around the history of art..

Canal Prado organizes its content in different thematic blocks making it easier for the public to access videos according to their interests and promoting clearer and more specialized navigation. This structure allows for the grouping of diverse formats—from visits or making-of to restorations or exhibitions—and is complemented by special proposals scheduled periodically.. Besides, at designated times, The platform will highlight content related to anniversaries or specific thematic lines; For example, During the month of March, the focus is on those materials linked to women in the Prado.