Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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This major collection of the works of the late, great Abstract Expressionist Antoni Tapies is stored in a stunning Modernista building.
Adult price: 6
Good for age: 18+
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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Great art is in Barcelona’s blood. Although much was lost in the city’s turbulent past, the Catalan National Art Museum has the world’s greatest collection of Romanesque murals, salvaged from remote Pyrenean chapels; both Picasso and Miro, Barcelona’s 20th-century masters, were inspired by their bold otherworldly figures. The same museum has a treasure trove of elegant, courtly Gothic art from Barcelona’s golden age, notably by the great Jaume Huguet.
The city’s second golden age, beginning in the late 19th century, produced Ramon Casas and Santiago Rusinol avant-garde painters headquartered at the Quatre Gats cafe that cultivated the young Picasso.
Other key figures include theorist and abstract expressionist Antoni Tapies, one of the leading figures of 20th-century art in Europe; the famous conceptual artist Angels Ribe; Agusti Puig, heir of Picasso and Miro; and the jovial street artist El Pez.
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Experience
This major collection of the works of the late, great Abstract Expressionist Antoni Tapies is stored in a stunning Modernista building.
Adult price: 6
Good for age: 18+
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Gleaming white museum housing a cutting-edge collection of international and Catalan contemporary art, representing the 1940s-60s, 1960s-70s and the contemporary period.
Adult price: 10
Good for age: 18+
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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A magnificent, red-brick Modernista factory now converted into a superb Catalan cultural centre, with edgy permanent and temporary exhibitions.
Adult price: 5
Good for age: 18+
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Check out Barcelona’s current art scene in this strikingly renovated factory building, featuring works produced in the last 50 years.
Adult price: 5
Good for age: 18+
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Showcases a thousand years of Catalan art history, with rich Romanesque, Gothic and Modernista sections and plenty of Grand Masters in between.
Adult price: 10
Good for age: 18+
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Set in the waterfront MAPFRE skyscraper, this gallery has brilliant, ever-changing exhibitions by world-famous photographers.
Adult price: 4
Good for age: 18+
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Luminous museum of modern and contemporary art, housing the world’s top collection of works by Joan Miro. Set in a striking rationalist-style building, designed by Josep Lluis Sert.
Adult price: 10
Good for age: 18+
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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A privately-owned museum that specialises in contemporary art and exhibitions from famous artists such as Banksy, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Salvador Dali.
Adult price: 15
Good for age: 13+
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Absorbing collection of early and late works by Picasso, in a beautiful Gothic palace. The collection includes Picasso’s 58 paintings inspired by Velazquez’s Las Meninas.
Adult price: 11
Good for age: 18+
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