The Picasso Museum in Barcelona has one of the most extensive collections of artworks by the 20th century Spanish artiste Pablo Picasso. This is one of the most popular and most visited museums in Barcelona. The museum is housed in five adjoining ancient palaces in Barcelona's Barri Gotic.

The original plan for the museum came from Picasso’s friend, Jamie Sabartés. Picasso had given Sabartés great many paintings, drawings and prints during the course of their friendship. Firstly Sabartés had planned to set up a museum based on his collection in Málaga, Picasso’s birthplace. It was Picasso himself who recommended that Barcelona would be more appropriate, given his long standing connections with the city. You can visit this museum with a Visites guidées Barcelone.

The collection doesn't directly strike you as being a very extensive one. Among the early work, there are a couple of curious paintings of the seaside at Barceloneta as it was hundred years ago, complete with donkeys and none of the landmarks to be seen there today…

The Barcelona Picasso Museum does not include his most important work - Guernica, for example is in Madrid's Reina Sofía Art Centre and you have got the Paris collections and a new Picasso museum in Malaga.

After Sabartés death in 1968, Picasso himself donated a significant amount of items to the museum, including approximately one thousand items of his early work which his family had been keeping for him ever since the period he first settled in France. This included school publications, academic pieces and paintings from Picasso's Blue Period. There are now more than 3,500 works making up the permanent collection of the museum. To go there, you can arrived at Aeroport Barcelone.

The Museu Picasso reveals Picasso's relationship with the city of Barcelona, a relationship that has been shaped in his youth and adolescence, and continued until his death.

The Museum has undergone successive renovations and expansions, and it’s currently starting to develop new programmes, activities and services to become a reference place, envisaged to spreading information and to fostering the visitor’s participation and critical views. The Museum wishes to be a dialogue space, exploring original approaches to Picasso’s work and influence and offering new views lying on the Museum Collection. We invite you to watch the audiovisual Welcome of the Museum director.