House-Museum of El Greco in Toledo

The history of the museum is closely linked to the figure of Don Benigno de la Vega-Inclán and Flaquer, II Marquis de la Vega-Inclán (1858-1942), one of the most important patrons of the first half of the 20th century, who arrived to impose in our country the fashion of the reconstruction of the historical environments in which the exhibited works had arisen.

The museum is currently the only one in Spain dedicated to the figure of the painter and its essential purpose is to transmit and make the figure of El Greco understandable to society, as well as the influence of his work and personality in Toledo at the beginning of the 17th century . It also includes in his speech a sample of the past of the museum through the figure of the II Marquis de la Vega-Inclán, authentic promoter of the institution and undisputed protagonist of the recovery and dissemination of the painting of El Greco.