Barcelona Weekend Break

Museu Picasso

The Museu Picasso is on Montcada street and occupies five interconnected medieval manor houses in one of the oldest remaining parts of the city. It was first opened in 1963.

The Museu Picasso will naturally have an appeal to anyone interest in art and great artists, but it is fascinating even if (as with us) you are not.

The museum is cleverly set out into a series of zones or rooms and each one charts a part of the great artist's life and artistic development. The rooms are numbered, so it is easy to maintain the correct sequence a follow Picasso's life. This allows you to see Picasso's early works, his various “colour” periods and his changes in circumstance - and all are chronologically and sequentially laid out before you in the order in which they occurred.

It is a first class museum styled gallery and is interesting and educational without being boring or bland. No doubt exactly the way Picasso would have liked it.

In addition to Picasso's paintings, the museum displays ceramics, sketches and engravings.

Tourist information

The museum is fairly compact and you can easily see everything in an hour, although most visitors extend that time span to something closer to two hours.

Admission to the museum is 5 euros per adult, but if you time your visit for the first Sunday of any month you will get in for free. The museum is closed on a Monday.