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Museums of Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain is a global city that is incredibly rich in its cultural heritage as well as the contemporary arts. It has amazing architecture and its buildings represent various eras and design genres. It also has some great museums including the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, The Picasso Museum and Fundacio Joan Miro. The latter two are dedicated to the specific artists that are named and they contain great works from them, though they also include exhibits and collections by others.

The National Museum of Art of Catalonia was opened in 1990 and is located in the Palau Nacional, which was built for the 1929 World’s Fair. The building itself is an incredible feat in aesthetics. It is a comprehensive art museum and features collections from the Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque periods among others. The building that houses this museum was the original location for the Museu d’Art de Catalunya, which opened in 1934. This museum was closed down however during the Spanish Civil War.

The Fundacio Joan Miro is a museum of modern art. This is a comprehensive museum and even the building itself is representative of modern design. There is a special section devoted to the displaying the work of you artists. It also contains a library and auditorium. The Picasso Museum is one of the most popular museums with tourists who visit the city and are staying in one of the Barcelona boutique hotels. The museum is an incredible complex of medieval palaces located in the city’s La Ribera. It opened in 1963 and contains many works that were donated by Pablo Picasso himself. There are over three thousand five hundred works that are included in the museum’s permanent collection. Of the items Picasso donated, there are approximately one thousand items that include school books and personal study items as well as paintings from his Blue Period.

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