Charlotte Mosca's Barcelona

#Explore different city guides curated each week by ArtSpotter: Summertime is here! Visiting Barcelona? these are the galleries you shouldn't miss.

Museu Picasso

Montcada 15-23, 08003 Barcelona. +34 93 256 30 00. http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/museum/presentation.html

Tuesday to Sundays (including holidays): 10 am to 8 pm.

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona is a key reference for understanding the formative years of Pablo Ruiz Picasso. The genius of the young artist is revealed through the more than 3,800 works that make up the permanent collection. Furthermore, the Museu Picasso, opened in 1963, also reveals his deep relationship with Barcelona: an intimate, solid relationship that was shaped in his adolescence and youth, and continued until his death.

Fundacio Miro

Parc de Montjuïc s/n 08038 Barcelona. +34 934 439 470 . http://fundaciomiro-bcn.org/

Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00 - 19.00 (October - June) Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00 - 20.00 (July - September)

The Joan Miró Foundation opened to the public on 10 June 1975. It had its origins in Miró's first large exhibition in Barcelona, in 1968, at the Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu. Several figures from the world of the arts saw the opportunity to have a space in Barcelona dedicated to the artist's work. However, in accordance with his wishes, the new institution was also to promote and publicise the work of contemporary artists in all its aspects.At a time when artistic and cultural life was certainly minimal, the Foundation brought a refreshing vitality, together with a new, more dynamic concept of an art museum in which Miró's art was shown alongside a wide variety of creative works by other artists - a fact that is reflected in the Foundation's full name of Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art.

MACBA

Plaça dels Angels, 1,Barcelona, Spain, 08001. +34 93 412 08 10. http://www.macba.cat/

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 11 am to 7.30 pm Tuesday closed (except public holidays)

As a public entity, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) assumes responsibility for disseminating contemporary art, offering a diverse range of visions, and generating critical debates on art and culture, while aspiring to reach increasingly diverse audiences. MACBA is an open institution where citizens can find a space of public representation, and also prioritises education and innovation in its field. All of the above, in addition to its commitment to heritage preservation and networking with other institutions, place MACBA at the forefront of the art system in Catalonia and confirm Barcelona’s position as a world art capital and an international benchmark.

Antoni Tàpies

http://www.fundaciotapies.org/site/spip.php?rubrique64

MNAC

Palau Nacional Parc de Montjuïc 08038 Barcelona . +34 93 622 03 76. http://www.mnac.cat/

Tuesday to Saturday:10 am to 7 pm Sunday and public holidays:10 am to 2.30 pm

The MNAC embraces all the arts (sculpture, painting, objets d'art, drawing, engraving, posters, photography and coinage) and has the task of explaining the general history of Catalan art from the Romanesque period to the mid-twentieth century. In the case of the Romanesque and Gothic collections, this discourse is characterized by the Catalan provenance of most of the pieces, although, particularly in the Gothic, comparisons are made with art from other provenances. With regard to the Renaissance and Baroque collections, the works included lead to a more international discourse, with the work of great painters, such as El Greco, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Cranach, Rubens... The MNAC art collections from the end of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century are once again mostly made up of the work of Catalan artists, forming a discourse which explains Modernisme, Noucentisme and the Avant-garde, always taking into account all the arts.