The museum MNAC is housed in the Palau Nacional, a landmark building dating from the 1929 International Exhibition of Barcelona. It is located on Montjuïc Hill, a privileged setting which boasts unique, magnificent views of Barcelona.

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CaixaForum, the Museum and Cultural Centre of “La Caixa” Community Projects, is housed in one of Barcelona’s landmark buildings, the Casaramona textile mill, a jewel of industrial modernista architecture designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

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The Casa-Museu Gaudí was built in 1904 as a show house in the Park Güell which was originally designed as a garden-city in Barcelona. Gaudí made it his home, and it still contains some of his personal objects and mementoes.

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The CCCB, which is housed in the former workhouse building, the Casa de la Caritat, is one of the major infrastructures from the 1990s. All its activities focus on the theme of the city and urban phenomena, analysed from every point of view and cultural discipline.

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Opened in 2008, the Fundació Alorda Derksen is a non-for-profit private foundation. Its mission is to provide Barcelona with a new, high-profile art space of international scope about contemporary art.

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The Fundació Antoni Tàpies is housed in one of Barcelona’s most important modernista landmarks, designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and showcases one of the largest collections of art works by the Catalan artist.

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The galleries of the Fundació Fran Daurel opened in 2001 in the Poble Espanyol, or Spanish Village, on Montjuïc Hill.

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The Fundació Francisco Godia comprises in Barcelona one of the most important private art collections in Spain with over 100 works on display.

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The Fundació Joan Brossa was created in 1999 in Barcelona with the aim of promoting and preserving the poet’s work and disseminating his message to a wide audience.

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The Fundació Joan Miró is located in Montjuïc Park in a magnificent Mediterranean-style building designed by Josep Lluís Sert, and houses the most important public collection of works by Joan Miró.

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The Fundació Suñol is a not-for-profit foundation which exhibits in Barcelona the contemporary works of art collection amassed by Josep Suñol in order to foster the dissemination and production of avant-garde art.

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The Casa Milà, known locally as La Pedrera – the Catalan for stone quarry – is a unique building designed by the architectural genius Antoni Gaudí. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984 and is currently the headquarters of the Fundació Caixa Catalunya, one of Barcelona’s key cultural facilities.

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The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) opened in 1995 and is located right in Barcelona centre. The building was designed by the North-American architect Richard Meier.

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The Museu Barbier-Mueller d’Art Precolombí is housed in the Palau Nadal, a magnificent medieval palazzo on Carrer Montcada, opposite the Museu Picasso.

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Nowhere else in Barcelona better encapsulates the city’s history, religious art, guilds and the monarchs who governed the city throughout the centuries, than the cathedral.

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The Pia Almoina building, a national landmark housed in the Roman wall of the city next to the cathedral, is home to the Museu Diocesà, with its faithfully restored interior.

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The Museu Frederic Marès is located in the heart of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, in part of the former royal palace which was once home to the Counts of Barcelona. The museum includes an extensive and valuable collection of art works and objects which Frederic Marès collected throughout his life.

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The Museu Palmero is located in the Vall d’Hebron district of Barcelona in a 15th-century Catalan farmhouse which has been declared a landmark of historic and artistic interest, making it a must for lovers of architecture and painting.

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The Museu Picasso is housed in five Catalan-Gothic-style palazzos dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, and opened to the public in 1963. It is now an essential museum for anyone wanting to find out about the artist’s formative years.

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Located in the centre of Barcelona, the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família has become one of the most iconic landmarks of Barcelona, despite remaining unfinished at the time of Gaudí’s death.

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