Prado launches digital platform highlighting women's contributions to art and culture

In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, the Museo del Prado has introduced “Creators at the Prado,” a new digital platform designed to bring greater visibility to the women who have shaped the history of art and cultural knowledge. Developed in collaboration with the University of Salamanca, the platform gathers thousands of previously dispersed references to women connected to art—ranging from painters and sculptors to librarians, historians, photographers and museum professionals. By consolidating these records into a single searchable system, the museum aims to reveal the networks, careers and intellectual contributions of women whose work has often remained overlooked. The initiative is based on an extensive research effort that identified more than 10,800 records in the Prado’s library catalogues and 88 references within the museum’s collection itself. Using data-mining techniques and artificial intelligence, researchers were able to d