Temporary & Special Exhibitions at the Picasso Museum The Picasso Museum runs a rotating programme of temporary and special exhibitions alongside its permanent collection, and they are included in the standard admission ticket (€14 online). Shows typically explore Picasso in context — his influences, his circle, and his legacy — running for several months each. … Read more
Picasso Museum vs Moco Museum — which should you visit? The Picasso Museum and the Moco Museum sit on the same street in El Born but couldn’t be more different. The Picasso Museum is a single-artist collection of around 4,251 works spanning Picasso’s early years and Blue Period, housed in five medieval palaces, taking about … Read more
Picasso Museum vs MNAC — two very different museums The Picasso Museum and MNAC (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya) are both major Barcelona art museums, but at very different scales. The Picasso Museum is a focused, single-artist collection in five medieval palaces in El Born, taking about 1.5 hours. MNAC is a vast national collection … Read more
Picasso Museum permanent collection — an overview The Picasso Museum’s permanent collection holds around 4,251 works, making it the world’s most complete record of Picasso’s formative years — from his academic training as a teenager through the Blue Period. It’s arranged across five adjoining medieval palaces on Carrer de Montcada, with highlights including the complete … Read more
The medieval palaces — the buildings of the Picasso Museum The Picasso Museum is not one purpose-built gallery but five adjoining medieval palaces on Carrer de Montcada — Palau Aguilar, Palau del Baró de Castellet, Palau Meca, Casa Mauri and Palau Finestres — built between the 13th and 15th centuries. The museum joined them together … Read more
The Las Meninas series at the Picasso Museum Picasso’s Las Meninas series is a complete set of 58 canvases he painted in 1957, reinterpreting Diego Velázquez’s 1656 masterpiece of the same name. He worked through the composition repeatedly, breaking down individual figures and the overall scene rather than copying it, before donating the entire series … Read more
Picasso’s early works & the Blue Period The Picasso Museum’s early rooms trace Picasso from a precociously skilled teenage academic painter into the melancholy Blue Period of roughly 1901–1904. Key works include Science and Charity (1897), First Communion (1896), and Blue Period paintings shaped by his Barcelona youth around the Els Quatre Gats café and … Read more
