The museum is currently undergoing extensive renovation and is expected to reopen in 2026.
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The Museo Goya – Colección Ibercajá – Museo Camón Aznar opened in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1979, housed within the Renaissance Pardo Palace. The museum is named after the local art historian and collector José Camón Aznar, whose collection makes up the museum’s core holdings.
The collection comprises around 1,000 works, of which half is on display, and while it is primarily celebrated for its paintings and engravings by Francisco Goya, it also includes a very small number of Northern European artworks.
The collection includes two notable panel paintings by Pieter Kempeneer, (locally known as Pedro de Campaña), specifically Saint Hermenegild and Saint Cosmas (ca. 1545–1550). This Flemish Renaissance painter was a significant figure, having been active for nearly three decades in the southern Spanish region of Seville. Furthermore, the museum holds a version of the Virgin with Child by Guillaume Benson, underscoring the popularity of this pictorial tradition in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spain. It is worth noting that a comparable version of this work, once brought to Zaragoza by Don Martín de Gurrea y Aragón, Duke of Villahermosa, is housed separately in the Museum of Zaragoza. Finally, the Portrait of a Seated Man is highlight; once attributed to Aert de Gelder, it is now considered a first version—rather than a copy—of the 1642 portrait of an anonymous man by Ferdinand Bol, the latter of which is preserved at Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire (National Trust).