In a controversial move, the Generalitat appointed new director Vicenç Altaió to pump up the lacklustre visitor numbers for this contemporary art space....
La Rambla 7
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...
C/Arcs 5In 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...
Palau Reial de Pedralbes
Recently transplanted from a first-floor flat to the Casa Garriga Nogués - a Modernista masterpiece in its own right - this vast private art collection now...
C/Diputació 250Polymathic artist Joan Brossa (1919-98) left his fingerprints all over his home city, both in physical sculptures such as the letters spelling 'Barcino' by...
C/Provença 318
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...
Parc de Montjuïc s/n
Opened in 2007, the foundation's two floors house the contemporary art collection of businessman Josep Suñol. There are 100 works on show at a time,...
Passeig de Gràcia 98A 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...
C/Aragó 314
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...
Passeig de Gràcia 92-C/Provença 261-265
If you're used to being soft-soaped by eager-to-please art centres, you'll have to adjust to the cryptic minimalism of the MACBA, where art is taken very...
Plaça dels Àngels 1
'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...
Palau Nacional
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...
C/Montcada 14A hotchpotch of religious art, including some 14th-century alabaster virgins, altarpieces by Bernat Martorell and wonderful Romanesque murals. The building...
Avda de la Catedral 4
Kleptomaniac and general magpie Frederic Marès (1893-1991) 'collected' everything he laid his hands on, from hairbrushes to opera glasses and gargoyles....
Plaça Sant Iu 5-6When it opened in 1963, the museum dedicated to Barcelona's favourite adopted son was housed in the Palau Aguilar. Nearly five decades later, the permanent...
C/Montcada 15-23