Museums

An entire section of the foundation's building, located on Montjuic Mountain, is dedicated to the work of the painter Joan Miró. The foundation boasts an excellent permanent collection of the artist's paintings that reveal his creative personality. This collection is often combined with temporary exhibitions. Some of Joan Miró's sculptural...

This remarkable museum is devoted to the history of the Catalonian region, which includes this area of Spain and also a n area of South East France, and the history of Catalunya as a nation. Its permanent exhibition takes us back to prehistoric times, when this Catalunya...

The City History Museum is in fact made of four venues located throughout the city: the Monumental Ensemble of the Plaça del Rei, the Museum-Monastery of Pedralbes, the Verdaguer Museum-House, and the Centre for Interpretation in Parc Güell. The two most interesting sites are the Monumental...

One of the most recent additions to Barcelona's cultural landscape, the Fundació Suñol was created in 2002 to house the private collection of Josep Suñol, one of Spain's foremost and most prolific art collectors, and make it accessible to the public. Distributed across a 1,000m2, completely renovated space on Passeig...

Situated at the bottom of Las Ramblas, in the most important civilian gothic building in the world. A unique museum outstanding not only for what it displays but also for the way it displays. Houses an extensive range of nautical treasures including model ships, instruments, maps and charts. The virtual...

The Catalonian National Art Museum is housed in the former "Palau Nacional" at the foot of Montjuïc and is regarded as the best Art Museum in Barcelona. It houses an enormous collection of Medieval Art stemming from the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Many of the frescos were collected from the...

Ever since Joan Gamper founded the FC Barcelona in 1899 the club has seen a steady increase in its membership (currently it stands at over 100,000 members worldwide). The blue-red team colours and the Camp Nou, the giant Barça stadium that seats 120,000 spectators, have become symbols to legions of...

This amazing museum, which opened in 2005, has been heralded as the finest science museum in Europe. CosmoCaixa Barcelona has an enormous variety of content and an innovative layout, turning it into one of the most modern museums of its kind. The new 50.000 m2 building increases the scientific offer...

The Picasso museum is in a little side street on the south side of Carrer Princesa, near Jaume I metro station. It is housed in three medieval palaces, The exhibition rooms are arranged in chronological order. They start with some surprisingly good works painted in the late 1890's when...

The MACBA Collection has been put together from the collections stored in the museum by the three institutions that make up the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona Consortium: the Catalan Government, Barcelona Council and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona Foundation. Consequently the collection, which includes pieces by Cézanne, Picasso,...

The Barbier-Mueller Museum in Barcelona is a sibling of the prestigious institution in Geneva, Switzerland. The Barcelona museum is dedicated exclusively to pre-Colombian art. The museum's collection covers almost every existing aesthetic expression of pre-Hispanic culture from Meso-America, Central America, the Andes and the Amazon. These fascinating artworks - sculptures,...