The Picasso Museum is one of the best museums in Barcelona
The Picasso Museum in Barcelona highlights his early years, when he was still learning, and clearly shows his relationship with Barcelona city, it was shaped in his youth and adolescence, and continued until he died in 1973.
The museum has the largest collection of his early works. More than 3500 works of art, some of the best things to see in Barcelona.
The museum is in a Gothic palace complex with a courtyard and is well worth exploring, it is actually one of the most popular and most visited museums in Barcelona.
When he was 14 years of age he and his family moved to Barcelona from La Coruña in Galicia. In Barcelona he blossomed, the Barcelona Picasso museum will give you the chance to discover his Blue and Rose periods, his sketches and family portraits.
Picasso wanted to leave his mark on Barcelona and his desire was made a reality when Jaume Sabartés, a close friend from his youth and his personal secretary from 1935 onwards, donated his own personal collection of paintings to Barcelona.
This is the first Picasso museum to be opened in the world while Picasso was still alive.
The museum opened on the 3rd of march 1963 and was called the “Sabartés Collection” and was housed in the Palau Aguilar.
In 1970 Picasso personally donated almost 1000 more works of art to the museum that had been kept in his family's home in Barcelona. To make room for all this art the Barcelona City Council made the Castellet available.
The Picasso museum is housed in five connected medieval palaces. You will find the permanent collection, on the first and second floors of the first three palaces and it is arranged chronologically.
In the other two palaces, on the first and secon floors you will find the temporary exhibitions, which are normally of other modern artists.
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These are some of the best exhibits that can be seen here
Opening times
Tuesday to Sunday (including public holidays)
10h00 to 20h00
The museum is closed on Mondays unless it is a public holiday.
It is also closed on the following days:
January 1, May 1, June 24, December 25 and 26.
Last entrance 19h30
How to get there
Buses 17, 40, 45 on Via Laietana 39, 51 on Passeig Picasso 14, 59 on Pla de Palau 19 Plaça de la Catedral 120 on Princesa |
Metro L1 Arc de Trionf L3 Liceu L4 Jaume 1 |
Prices
Guided tour: 9€
Temporary shows: 5,80€
Free entrance to see the permanent collection on the first Sunday of every month.
Services provided by the Picasso Museum
Library, please make an appointment in advance.
Information
Lecture room
The Museum has a Café restaurant with outdoor tables in summer. It offers a lunchtime menu.
Special access for the disabled.
Guided tours
Saturdays and Sundays at 12h00 in Catalan.
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 18h00 in Spanish.
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 16h00 in English.
To reserve please call 93 256 30 22 or e-mail museupicasso_reserves@bcn.cat
Address: Montcada, 15 – 23
08003 Barcelona
Tel: +34 93 256 3000
Fax: + 34 93 315 0102
E-Mail: museupicasso@bcn.cat