Said to be the biggest science museum in Europe, CosmoCaixa doesn't, perhaps, make the best use of its space. A glass-enclosed spiral ramp runs down an impressive six floors,...

This private collection of Dalí sculptures looks right at home amid the dramatic red velvet curtains and high, Gothic arches of the ground floor and basement of the Palau...

Newly transplanted in late 2008 from a first-floor flat to the Casa Garriga Nogués - a Modernista masterpiece in its own right - this vast private art collection now has enough...

This polymathic artist (1919-98) left his fingerprints all over his home city, not only in physical sculptures such as the letters spelling 'Barcino' by the cathedral or the...

Josep Lluís Sert, who spent the years of the Franco dictatorship as Dean of the School of Design at Harvard University, designed one of the greatest museum buildings in the...

Opened in 2007, the foundation's two floors house the contemporary art collection of businessman Josep Suñol. There are 100 pieces, including painting, sculpture and...

A garden furniture mogul might seem at first glance to be an unlikely art collector but Manuel Alorda and his wife Hanneke Derksen proved that there is no conflict between...

Described variously as rising dough, molten lava and a stone lung, the last secular building designed by Antoni Gaudí, the Casa Milà (popularly known as La Pedrera, 'the stone...

The real show at the MACBA is the building itself, Richard Meier's cool iceberg of a museum sitting imperturbably amid the ceaseless scrape and clatter of skateboarders on the...

'One museum, a thousand years of art' is the slogan of the National Museum, and the collection provides a dizzying overview of Catalan art from the 12th to the 20th centuries....

In 1326, the widowed Queen Elisenda of Montcada used her inheritance to buy this land and build a convent for the Poor Clare order of nuns, which she soon joined. The result is...

Located in the 15th-century Palau Nadal, this world-class collection of pre-Columbian art was ceded to Barcelona in 1996 by the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva. The Barcelona...

The time frame for this archaeology collection starts with the Palaeolithic period, and there are relics of Greek, Punic, Roman and Visigothic colonisers, up to the early...

The Catalan History Museum spans the Lower Paleolithic era right up to Jordi Pujol's proclamation as President of the Generalitat in 1980. It offers a virtual chronology of the...