The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando) is a museum in Madrid, in Calle Alcalá 13. It owes its name to the monarch of the time, Ferdinand VI. The building in which the museum is located, which originally began as an Academy (the first in all of Spain), was built between 1720 and 1730.

Today the museum stands out for preserving an interesting collection of Spanish works from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, especially with works by: Giovanni Bellini, Correggio, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Pieter Paul Rubens, Antonio de Pereda, Giovanni Battista Beinaschi, Luca Giordano, Paolo De Matteis, Tiepolo, Mengs, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Francisco de Zurbarán.

In addition there is also a small but still significant group of foreign paintings among which there are works by Dutch, Flemish, French, German and Italian painters. In total, the paintings are around 1550.

There are also 1500 sculptures, 15,300 drawings, 35,000 prints and 2,000 photographs.

In addition to the permanent exhibitions, the museum also organizes numerous temporary exhibitions.