Make your experience to Barcelona Historic
Learn history of Barcelona via its historical museums
1. Fundació Joan Miró Museum
Opening Hours: Tue to Sat 10.00-19.00 (Oct-June), 10.00-20.00 (July-Sep), Thursday 10.00-21.30, Sunday and public vacations 10.00-14.30, Mondays (except public vacations) Closed.
Fundació Joan Miró Museum is one of the well-known museums in Spain and artistic works of Fundació Joan Miró are exhibited right here. Fundació Joan Miró changed into born on 20 April, 1893. He got here out with his first solo exhibition in the yr 1921 at Paris' Galerie La Licorne. He died on Dec 25, 1983.
The museum is a gift from him to the native City and showcases present day art of Barcelona spanning one century. The building became opened to the general public in 1975 and it become designed by means of Josep LluÃs Sert. Miro turned into epitome of favor as is meditated in his colorful fashion with coloration of Mediterranean humor.
The maximum well-known among his collections are Alexander Calder's mercury fountain at the side of pottery sculptures like Dona j ocell (1982), bronze sculpture Dona (1983) and tapestry Tarragona Tapestry (1970).
Visitors to the museum can have a glimpse of Miro's series which general a hundred seventy five portions of sculptures, 240 portions of paintings, 4 ceramics and 9 textiles along side 8000 drawings and photograph works. Though maximum of these had been donated by way of Miro, different participants consist of his wife and different artists which include Pierre Matisse, Francesc Farreras, Manuel de Muga, Marguerite, Josep LluÃs Sert, and Aimé Maeght.
His series consists of The pedicure 1901, Composition (Street in Pedralbes) 1917, Portrait of a Young Girl 1919, Chapel of Sant Joan d'Horta 1917, Collage-drawing 1933, Morning Star 1940, Double-sided Stele 1956, Self-Portrait 1937/38-1960, The Foundation Tapestry 1979.
The museum holds Temporary exhibitions, its own exhibition named Espai 13 and a visiting exhibition. It additionally conducts seminars, musical evenings, sports for kids, educational activities, Pensar l'art d'avui (Thinking Today's Art) and weekend guided excursions.
2. Museu d'Història de Catalunya (Museum of the History of Catalonia)
Opening Hours: Tue to Sat from 10 am to 7 pm, Wed from 10 am to 8 pm, Sun and public holidays from 10 am to two.30 pm, Mondays closed (except public holidays)
The Museum of the History of Catalonia famous social, cultural, political and low-cost evolution and records of Catalonia from very historical instances till the ultimate century. Opened for public in 1996, the Museum is constantly crowded by means of university college students, schoolchildren, historians, local population and overseas travelers because of promotion of sports that are related to Catalan records related to numerous subject matters and periods.
The museum is placed where a large 19th century warehouse stands. It is divided in eight sections within the form of everlasting exhibitions. "The Roots", "Our Sea" and Birth of a Nation," depict Catalonia's historic ancestors, Aragonese-Catalan sea exchange and the flourishing Roman duration. "On the Periphery of an Empire," "Steam and Nation" and "Bases of the Revolution" depict decline of Catalonia beneath Habsburg rule together with cultural and financial recovery all through the commercial age.
"The Electric Years" along side "Defeat and Recovery" tell approximately twentieth century, Spanish Civil War, impact of Franco's dictatorship on Catalonia and keeping of first ever democratic elections after Franco's dying.
The museum holds transient exhibitions on numerous subjects which had covered some awesome famous on Mediterranean cultures together with courting among poet Federico GarcÃa Lorca and Salvador DalÃ. It also conducts digital tour round various rooms of the Museum, from historic instances to the September 1714.
Along with journeying exhibitions, the museum offers research material for students and research pupils thru its various publications housed in library. It has a book place that sells numerous books and present items narrating history of Catalonia. The museum's café, La Miranda del museu, provides scrumptious food and a captivating view of the nearby port.
Point to note is that admission is unfastened on the primary Sunday of every month.
3. Figueres Dali Theatre Museum
Opening Hours: 1 Nov-28 Feb: 10:30 am-6 pm, 1 March-30 June: 9:30 am-6 pm, 1 July-30 Sep: 9 am-eight pm, 1 Oct-30 Oct: 9:30 am-6 pm. Closed on: Jan 1 and Dec 25, each Mon between 1 Oct and 31 May, except on holidays, excursion eves and 24 Dec.
The Dalà Theatre-Museum is a tribute to a Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalà i Domènech who become a Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia. Dalà became fine regarded for the hanging images in his surrealist paintings. His skills were inspired by means of Renaissance masters. His pleasant recognized work changed into The Persistence of Memory which changed into completed in 1931.
The museum is housed inside the building where a Municipal Theatre of 19th century stood. Opened to public in 1974, it has huge range of works of Dalà spanning his provider and consist of his remarkable artwork consisting of 1910 Landscape Near Figueras, 1916 Fiesta in Figueras (begun 1914), 1921 The Garden of Llaner (Cadaqués) and Self-portrait, 1930 L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age) film in collaboration with Luis Buñuel, 1941 Honey is Sweeter than Blood, 1951 Christ of St. John of the Cross and Exploding Raphaelesque Head, Apotheosis of the Dollar 1965 and Dawn, Noon, Afternoon and Evening (1979).
The connoisseurs of art and art work can see works that Dali created especially for the Museum in numerous rooms, like Mae West Room, Monument to Francesc Pujols and Wind Palace Room. It additionally includes works of different artists together with El Greco, Modest Urgell, Marià Fortuny, Ernest Meissonier, Wolf Vostell, Marcel Duchamp and Antoni Pitxot.
The museum has 1500 works of arts which incorporates drawing, painting, sculpture, installations, pictures and so forth. The theatre covers 3 spaces, the main theatre museum, group of rooms and the gallery "Dal÷Jewels", which incorporates collections of gold set of gems of vintage Owen Cheatham, 37 in range.
The Dalà Theatre-Museum conducts brief exhibitions, virtual visits and "Dali via Night" indicates.
4. Museu MarÃtim (Maritime Museum)
Opening Hours: Mon to Sun (10:00 a.M.And 8:00 p.M.)
Museu Maritim is one among the special museums in Barcelona covering one century (1750-1850). It includes all varieties of maritime artifacts in and round Barcelona. The museum's records dates back to 1378 when King Pere IV signed an agreement to construct royal shipyards. It is a creation wonder of Catalan with Gothic architecture. The major appeal is a statue in Christopher Columbus' honour named Colonand Port Vell, a picturesque stroll to the jetty.
The museum houses collections of ship fashions, steamships, fashions of shipyard, fashions from nautical faculties, half of-hull fashions in conjunction with model of ships used by Spanish Royal Armada. The maritime museum has a huge range of navigation device series from every age, viz, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and include marine chronometer, lengthy distance glasses, sextants and octants.
The museum has a large collection of ex-votos of mariners within the form of painted photographs depicting injuries, shipwrecks, etc., together with call of the divine being. The museum additionally has painting series which encompass works by using well-known painters inclusive of M. Urgell, J. Llaverias and R. Martà Alsina among others along side pics of ships and vessels. The museum additionally has figurehead series which are specifically of Catalan sailboats of 19th century at the side of "Negre de la Riba" (Black guy of Riba), figure of warrior from North America.
The museum has series of eleven nautical charts in conjunction with diverse atlases produced at some stage in 15-seventeenth centuries and other cartographic collection numbering approximately 2000, signifying nautical history of medieval Spain.
The royal galley of Juan de Austria showcases replica of the vessel Juan de Austria which took component in struggle of Lepanto on 7 October 1571.
Santa Eulà lia, a schooner, is every other attraction at the museum and has been named after customer saint of Barcelona. The museum also has a store and a eating place.
5. Museu Picasso (Picasso Museum)
Opening Hours: Tue to Sun:10 am to eight pm, Closed on running Mondays
The Museu Picasso has one of the maximum massive collections of works of art by means of the twentieth century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. This is one of the maximum popular and maximum visited museums in Barcelona. The museum is housed in five medieval palaces in Barcelona's Barri Gotic. There are almost three,500 works making up permanent series of the museum.
The Picasso museum turned into inaugurated in March nine, 1963 in Aguilar Gothic palace. Later Palau del Baró de Balaguer, Palau Meca, Casa Mauri and Palau Finestres palaces also became part of the museum.
The series at the museum consist of Malaga, which depicts his life from 1881-1890, Corunna, 1891-1895, Barcelona 1895-1897 and lots of other.
The everlasting collections encompass paintings and drawing, engravings and ceramics. The paintings encompass faculty days critical oil artwork, Science and Charity in 1897 and First Communion (1896) at the side of Margot and the Dwarf Dancer, 1901. Other artwork consist of Le Fol (The Madman), The Tragedy (1903) as well as Portrait of Señora Canals. The Ceramics Museum has a series of sixteen articles donated by Picasso in 1957, which depict twentieth century fashion.
The museum's public areas which includes assembly halls may be employed for personal functions and private visits additionally can be arranged to the exhibition rooms. The museum conducts unfastened guided tours. The museum library has specialized substances of Picasso, even though get entry to to it's far restrained. Visitors should buy Picasso memorabilia on the museum keep which encompass books, posters, T-shirts, earrings, handkerchiefs and motifs.
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