Casa Museu Gaudí

You can think of Casa Museu Gaudí as a house built from clues. Not just the physical kind—timelines, signatures, ownership transfers—but the quieter ones: who commissioned the project, who stalled it, and who returned to live inside the results.

A residence with a paper trail

At the heart of this mystery is the man whose name the building keeps: Antoni Gaudí. He bought the house in 1906 and lived there for almost twenty years, until the end of 1925, moving to the workshop of the Sagrada Família Basilica only a few months before his death in 1926. The dates matter because they line up with his “mature works,” when his life became increasingly dominated by the Sagrada Família. But the house did not begin as Gaudí’s sanctuary. The original project was part of a much bigger plan—an urban experiment promoted by Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi. After a stay in England, he returned to Barcelona with the intention of building a garden city for the Catalan bourgeoisie on grounds he had acquired in 1899: Can Muntaner de Dalt. He commissioned a scheme that imagined sixty houses, including garden space and the necessary services, and he turned to Gaudí for the design.