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....

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...

In 2008, the Museu Tèxtil, previously located in the Born, joined the ceramic and decorative arts museums in the Palau Reial de Pedralbes, built in the 1920s and briefly used...

The Diocesan Museum contains a hotchpotch of religious art, everything from 14th-century alabaster virgins and altarpieces by Bernat Martorell to some wonderful Romanesque...

Kleptomaniac and magpie, Frederic Marès (1893-1991) 'collected' everything he laid his hands on, from hairbrushes to opera glasses and gargoyles. Unlike most private...

'There is where it all began… where I understood how far I could go,' Picasso said of his formative years in Barcelona. His family arrived here just before his 14th birthday;...