Near the Museo del Prado are two other national museums: the Museo Arqueológico houses some art of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome formerly in the Prado Collection; the Museo Reina Sofía houses 20th-century artwork (including Picasso's "Guernica").
"Prado" ("travnik") je bil travnik, preden so zgradili muzej in celotno območje poimenovali s tem imenom: Salón del Prado (kasneje Paseo del Prado) in še muzej sam po nacionalizaciji.