The Board of trustees of the Museo del Prado (1912–1936)

The article analyses the Museo del Prado’s Board of Trustees between its creation and the start of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), studying the role of the noble and bourgeois members, its beginnings and development over this period, and its place in the cultural policy of the time. Attention is also given to the main initiatives for which it was responsible and the role played by its most active trustees and members, who came from very specific cultural and social sectors, primarily by considering the projects they undertook, whether or not these were ultimately completed.