Amazing Museums In Barcelona, For Every Art Geekery
Picasso, Miro, Dali — giants of the art world — all once called Barcelona home. The city is still pumping out artists to the day. Its institutions continue to mount
Picasso, Miro, Dali — giants of the art world — all once called Barcelona home. The city is still pumping out artists to the day. Its institutions continue to mount
Opened in 2021, the MOCO Museum is a pure delight. It’s situated in a 16th century Gothic Quarter palace once reserved for the city’s elite. The fresh-faced museum is the
Love him or hate him, Pablo Picasso was the most famous, and for me then greatest, artist of the 20th century. Though he made his career in Paris, the most
So you may be wondering, should you visit the Mies van der Pavilion when you’re on Montjuic Hill? The answer is it depends. If you are a devotee of modern
Casa Vicens is a magnificent Antoni Gaudi creation located in Barcelona’s Gràcia neighborhood. The vivacious Casa Vicens splashed onto the Gaudi tourist circuit in Barcelona in November 2017. It opened
The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (“MNAC”) is absolutely wonderful! It’s housed in a grandiose Neo-Baroque palace on Montjuic Hill designed by architects Eugenio Cendoya and Enric Catà. The museum
Modern art lovers will want to worship at the shrine to the Barcelona-born Joan Miro. He was Catalonia’s most famous Surrealist painter and sculptor. Miro’s titular museum is housed in
Palau de la Musica Catalana is one of Barcelona’s most beautiful spaces. In fact, it’s my favorite Modernist interior in the city. The palace is full of visual mischief and
One of Gaudi’s early masterpieces is just off La Rambla. But without the sign pointing the way, you might not even know it’s there! Eusebi Güell (pronoucned g-WAY), Gaudi’s chief
La Pedrera, also known as Casa Mila, is the fantastical creation of Antoni Gaudi, one of Spains’ greatest architects. Famous for its undulating stone facade and twisting wrought iron balconies,