Picasso Museum
The Museu Picasso is Barcelona’s major meeting point with Pablo Picasso’s work—so major that it holds 4,251 pieces by the twentieth-century Spanish artist. You enter through five adjoining medieval palaces on Montcada Street, and the museum’s story begins long before the first visitor ever walked in. Its opening date is 9 March 1963, when it became the first museum dedicated to Picasso and the only one created during his lifetime. The driving force was Picasso’s lifelong friend and secretary, Jaume Sabartés, who signed an agreement with the city of Barcelona on 27 July 1960. Sabartés shaped the collection by donating 574 works from his personal holdings, joined by works Picasso had given to the city and pieces previously held by Barcelona’s museum of modern art. Two early milestones anchor the collection: The First Communion (1896) and Science and Charity (1897). …
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