Prado Museum



The  is a national art museum housing countless exhibits in Madrid,. It has appeared as a notable landmark in a few games of the Super Mario franchise.

Mario is Missing!
In the DOS and Deluxe versions of Mario is Missing!, the Prado Museum is one of the city's landmarks (alongside the Palacio de las Cortes and the Ventas Bullring) that gets ransacked by Koopa Troopas. They steal one of the museums's paintings, Guernica by, causing the entire museum to shut down; they also place a bounty on its return. Luigi promptly does just that: he retrieves the painting, and after proving that it is real by answer the questions listed below, it is returned to its rightful place.


 * Guernica was painted by:
 * Diego Rivera
 * Pablo Ruiz Picasso
 * Peter Prado
 * Jose Malaga
 * Guernica was named for:
 * Spanish for gumdrops
 * Picasso's mother
 * town of Guernica
 * Latin for war
 * In 1981, the Guernica was brought home to the Prado Museum from:
 * New York
 * Guernica
 * France
 * Malaga

Mario Kart Tour
The Prado Museum appears as one of the landmarks in the Madrid Drive course in Mario Kart Tour. A portion of Madrid Drive 3 takes place inside the museum. When players enter the museum, an unique version of the course's music plays. In this game, the museum's paintings depict different Super Mario characters. One painting, however, is torn in the middle and has a Piranha Plant lunging at players from the hole. In the R/T variant of Madrid Drive 3, the Piranha Plant is replaced by an Inky Piranha Plant.