Welcome to the Museu Picasso of Barcelona, the centre for exploring the formative years of Pablo Picasso.
This museum is the result of Picasso’s personal wish to leave his mark on our city. The Museum opened in 1963 with the Sabartés Collection, the donation of the Las Meninas series in ‘68 on the death of Sabartés, Picasso’s personal secretary. Then, in 1970, Picasso donated to the city more than 900 works the he had kept in his home. So, our collection explains mainly Picasso’s relationship with Barcelona.
The Museu Picasso collection is extensive up to the Blue Period. Also, you can see a selection of works from 1917, when Picasso came with Olga Khoklova to our city. After that, there is a big leap in the collection to 1957 with the significant series Las Meninas. The Museum houses a major collection of prints, also donated by Picasso and a collection of ceramics left by his widow, Jacqueline Roque, in 1982.
The Museu Picasso has a primary aim – to be a space for dialog, participation and knowledge. Participation in all its senses – visitors are to take away added value from the experience of seeing the Museum. Not just because of the huge numbers of visitors. We have to create tools, resources, programmes so visitors can experience something more. So, we are opening up new viewpoints on Picasso, his work, new critical approaches, preparing this great artist’s legacy for the XXI century, bringing him to life, seeing him as a figure in the present. Each generation has to reinterpret the work of a genius like Picasso. I believe it is the duty of our Museu Picasso to generate these new interpretations and to offer our visitors a wide range of options to connect with this artistic heritage.
Both the team at the Museu Picasso and I myself wish to invite you to visit us. We need your participation. We need your interest in quality. The Museu Picasso prepares programmes, events, tools aimed at this participation. A collection Picasso himself gave to Barcelona only makes sense if we put value on it, if we publicise it among our visitors, who can enjoy it, reinterpret the work and appreciate it from many different perspectives. This is our duty and that’s why we invite you to come to the Museum. And to tell us what you think of it. Thank you.
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