The innovative idea for the museum came from Picasso’s friend, Jamie Sabartés. Picasso had given Sabartés great many paintings, drawings and prints during the course of their friendship. Firstly Sabartés had planned to set up a museum based on his collection in Málaga, Picasso’s birthplace. It was Picasso himself who suggested that Barcelona would be more suitable, given his long standing relations with the town. You can visit this museum with a Visites guidées Barcelone.

The collection doesn’t directly strike you as being a very extensive one. Among the early painting, there are a couple of unusual paintings of the beach at Barceloneta like it was hundred years ago, complete with donkeys and none of the landmarks to be seen there today…

The Barcelona Picasso Museum doesn’t include his most important painting – Guernica, for example is in Madrid’s Reina Sofía Art Centre and you’ve got the Paris collections in addition to a new Picasso museum in Malaga.

After Sabartés decease in 1968, Picasso himself donated a significant amount of items to the museum, including approximately one thousand items of his early work which his family had been keeping for him ever since the time he first settled in France. This included school publications, academic pieces and paintings from Picasso’s Blue Period. There are now more than 3,500 works making up the permanent collection of the museum. To go there, you can arrived at Aeroport Barcelone.

The Museu Picasso reveals Picasso’s connection with the town of Barcelona, a relationship that has been shaped in his youth and adolescence, and continued till his death.

The Museum has undergone successive renovations and expansions, and it’s now starting to develop new programmes, activities and services to become a reference place, envisaged to spreading knowledge and to fostering the visitor’s participation and critical views. The Museum wishes to be a dialogue place, exploring original approaches to Picasso’s painting and influence and offering new views on the Museum Collection. We invite you to see the audiovisual Welcome of the Museum director.