Barcelona museums

The Maritime Museum

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The location of Maritime Museum dates back to the 13th century when the first shipyard was built, and since it the olden days it was used as an arsenal of ships. Then in 1936 it was decided to turn it into a museum and they begun to restore it. It is constantly being preserved, extended and developed nevertherless history lives in its walls and its port-side loacation makes the experience all the more authentic. Situated at the foot of the Ramblas just west of the Colombus monument.

Inside the Maritime Museum you are very much left to your own devices with headphones and a tape recorded in many languages. You will be shown ships of all shapes and sizes and lots of naval gear like maps, compasses and things the Spanish brought back from their voyages to unknown countries.

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Fundacio Joan Miro

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Joan Miro (1893-1983), is a famous Catalan paintor,sculptor and ceramist. He was a representative of Surrealism although he never admitted. Also he was influenced by cubism, expressionism and Color Field painting.He has several famous pieces exibiting in different locations in the world, one of them is "Fundacio Miro". Joan Miro´s other works can be seen in National Gallery of Art in Washington, on the walls of UNESCO building in Paris(wall of Moon and Wall of Sun) which are significantly famous.

In Fundacio Miro, you can find his early paintings like Portrait of a Young Girl and Flame in Space and Nude Woman and also his work of sculpture and ceramics. In addition to those, there are textiles, prints and illustrated books by himslef.

Also in the museum, there are temporary exibitions which you can visit and there are workshops and interactive visits you can join where you will have the clearer idea of his work.

You can also see his works around the city, especially in Parc de Joan Miro. One of the famous pieces is Woman and Bird other than the other pieces like the pavement at the Pla de l´Os in the Rambla.

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The Picasso Museum Barcelona

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In Barcelona, the Picasso Museum is the most famous art gallery of the city. The Museum receives over 1,000,000 visitors a year, housing one of Picasso’s largest and more completes collections in the world.

This museum presents the artist’s works in a chronologically order, from the early works of Picasso to the last ones. Through the museum’s tour you can see how his different techniques evolved and you will for sure give an account of why he became so famous.

Since its opening, the Picasso Museum is located in Montcada street, a neighborhood of Gothic architecture located in the West part of the Old City, where the streets are lined by a series of palaces that have been transformed over time due to the reconstruction and restorations.

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Comic Museum Barcelona

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Ideal for children and lovers of comics, this museum covers the history and development of this art in Britain since the eighteenth century to the present.
There is a large collection of all types of comics, including 3D animation, cartoon and strange expressions of the comic. There are more than nine hundred works, and in the same museum you can get past exhibition catalogs.

For those with an academic interest in the subject, the museum has a library and archive. It also provides lectures and courses for adults.

And there's more for fans of the cartoons! Those who want to buy comic books, London has a great offer. Some in old bookshops with more than thirty years of experience. Very close to the Museum of Comics you will find Gosh, a shop opposite the British Museum. At 237 Shaftesbury Avenue there’s a small specialized store call Comicana.

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