Prado Museum Marks 25 Years of 21st Century with Retrospective Exhibition

In Madrid, one of the world's great museums has paused at a quarter-century threshold to examine itself — not through the eyes of outside historians, but through its own honest reckoning. The Prado's exhibition 'Prado. Siglo XXI' is both a celebration and a confession: an institution acknowledging how far it has traveled since 2001 while refusing to pretend the journey is complete. It is a rare act of public self-scrutiny from a centuries-old institution, one that understands legacy not as something inherited but as something continuously earned.