Cerralbo Museum is located in Madrid (Spain), in the former residence of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, XVII Cerralbo Marquis, who sponsored excavations, and met one of the most important art collections in Spain. He died in 1922 and passed to the State Library by the Royal Order of April 10 and September 24, 1924.
Ten years later he was Cerralbo Museum Foundation (OM of March 22, 1934). The building was opened as a museum in 1944, Heritage Site in 1962.

It is found in works of modernization since the summer of 2006. Its reopening was announced in October 2008, then postponed to spring 2010.
It is a unique museum for almost intact its period setting, with an accumulation of furniture, antiques and paintings. In fact, the same building, of Italian, is designed more as a museum and home, with large rooms for the most important collections and smaller spaces for daily use.

Similarities with the Museo Lázaro Galdiano located in Madrid, although its collections of paintings do not reach the same level, or by extension or by the list of authors, the Marquis de Cerralbo had eclectic tastes and directed part of its efforts to archeology . However, a virgin stand of Zurbarán, Portrait of Agostino Doria Tintoretto (recently included in the anthology of the artist in the Museo del Prado), San Francisco de El Greco, The Conversion of Saul of Juan Antonio Frias y Escalante, Santo Domingo in Soriano Claudio Coello, a Pieta by Alonso Cano (copied by Van Dyck) and still lifes by Luis Melendez. A recent listing of the Italian section has unveiled works by Bronzino and Sebastiano Ricci.
The museum also houses several sculptures and collections of porcelain, European and Oriental armor, coins from the Greco-Roman era, etc.

As mentioned above, is closed for renovation, although their website shows their most relevant. According to ABC (April 2008), the reopening of the museum was planned for October 2008, but then said it would open in 2010 with an exhibition of Italian artists.