The Prado Museum merges art and artificial intelligence (AI) in its ‘El Prado de Babel’ project where it applies Telefónica technology to offer an explanation of the museum’s collections in 6 languages.
In addition to all Spanish-speaking countries, visitors coming from the United States – which accounts for 15% of international visits – Italy, Brazil, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Canada, Australia and Poland They will be able to learn a summary of the history of the Prado in their own language with the voice of the Director, Miguel Falomir.
This initiative, which is part of the 205th anniversary of the art gallery, will be expanded to other languages and will be continued with other similar ones in which the heads of the different schools and collections will be the ones be translated with the aim of facilitating a “closer” relationship between great teachers and citizensas Prado explained in a statement.
Precisely, so far this year, The Prado Museum has received more than 3,000,000 visitors, of which almost 44.51% have been free of charge and surpassing the same period in 2023 by more than 187,477 visits. The month with the largest influx of public so far has been the month of May with a total of 327,159 people.
Throughout the day on Tuesday the 19th, access to the museum will be free to both the permanent collection and its temporary exhibitions. from ‘Shaking hands. Sculpture and color in the Golden Age’ and ‘Rubens’ workshop, in addition to the itinerary ‘A botanical walk through the Prado’.
On the other hand, as part of the celebrations, the museum launches the international micro-story competition ‘The Prado in 205 words’, which seeks to relocate the collection and take “its inspiration” beyond its walls.