The Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia is one of the most important art galleries in Spain. The building, housed in the palace of San Pio V, houses about 2,000 works.

Among the paintings in the collection, most of which date back to the 14th and 15th centuries, the Self-portrait by Diego Velázquez and the Madonna with the Writing Child and a kneeling bishop by Pinturicchio are the only works of the Italian artist exhibited in Spain. The museum also has a section dedicated to sculpture, one to contemporary art and one to archeology.

Among the artists we remember Miquel Alcanyís, Pere Nicolau, Jacomart, Reixach, Nicolás Falcó, Gonzalo Pérez (Retable of the saints Orsola, Martino and Antonio), Paolo da San Leocadio, Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, Juan Vincente Macip, Joan de Joanes, Ribalta, José de Ribera, Velázquez (Self-portrait), Murillo, Juan de Valdés Leal, Luca Giordano, Corrado Giaquinto, Goya, Jan van Goyen, Frans van Bloemen. 19th and 20th centuries: Vicente López y Portaña, Lucio Muñoz, Degrain, José Benlliure y Gil, Pinazo, Joaquín Sorolla and Cecilio Plá.