Museu Europeu d'Art Modern
The Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, or MEAM, opened on 8 June 2011, and it became Spain’s first contemporary figurative art museum. It’s run as a private initiative by the Fundación de las Artes y los Artistas, and its programme is built around the works of living artists, with plans to show roughly 200 paintings and about 40 sculptures. You’re in the Palau Gomis, a three-storey building from the 18th century at the junction of Montcada, Princesa, and Barra de Hierro. In 1791, Francesc Gomis bought two nearby houses and commissioned Joan Garrido to create a new estate “in the style of the time.” During the Napoleonic invasion and the blockade of Barcelona, the palace was confiscated by the French army and became the home of General Josep Lechi. In 1855, a new façade was built after the project to connect the palace with Parc de la Ciutadella required splitting the complex. …
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