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3 Museu Nacional
d’Art de Catalunya
Parc de Montjuïc, Palau Nacional.
Map 1 B2. Tel 93 622 03 60.
 Espanya. @ 55, 150. Open
10am–8pm Tue–Sat (to 6pm Oct–
Apr), 10am–3pm Sun & pub hols.
Closed 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec. & (free
from 3pm Sat, 1st Sun of month, 12
Feb, 18 May, 11 & 24 Sep). Separate
fee for roof. ^ 7 8 by appt (93
622 03 75). ∑ museunacional.cat
The austere Palau Nacional was
built for the 1929 Inter national
Exhibition, but in 1934 it was
used to house an art col lection
that has since become the most
important in the city.
The museum has a great
display of Romanesque (see p28)
items, centred around a series
of magnificent 12th-century
frescoes taken from Catalan
Pyrenean churches. The most
remarkable are the wall
paintings from Sant Climent
de Taüll (see p28) and from
Santa Maria de Taüll (see p215).
The expanding Gothic
Flame in Space and Naked Woman (1932) by Joan Miró collection covers the whole of
Spain but particularly Cata lonia,
1 Fundació Joan permanent collection of and a col lection of notable
Miró paintings, sculptures and Baroque and Renaissance works
tap estries lit by natural light. hails from all over Europe.
Parc de Montjuïc. Map 1 B3. Tel 93 Miró himself donated the works A fine collection of modern
443 94 70.  Espanya, then bus 150, and some of the best pieces on art includes Modernista furni-
55 or Paral.lel, then Montjuïc funicular. display include his Barcelona ture by Gaudí (see pp144–5),
Open 10am–6pm Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat Series (1939–44), a set of 50 and paintings by Picasso,
(Jul–Sep: to 8pm), 10am–9:30pm Thu,
10am–2:30pm Sun & public hols. black-and-white lithographs. Ramon Casas and Salvador
Closed 1 Jan, 25 & 26 Dec. & 7 Periodic exhibitions of other Dalí. The museum offers a rare
∑ fmirobcn.org artists’ work are also held. opportunity to view more than
a millennium of Catalan artistic
Joan Miró (1893–1983) 2 Museu activity in a single location.
studied at the fine art school Arqueològic
at La Llotja (see p156). From
1919, he spent much of his Passeig Santa Madrona 39–41. Map 1
time in Paris. Though opposed B3. Tel 93 423 21 49.  Espanya,
to Franco, he returned to Poble Sec. Open 9:30am–7pm Tue–
Spain in 1940 and lived mainly Sat, 10am–2:30pm Sun & public hols.
in Mallorca, where he died. Closed 1 Jan, 25 & 26 Dec. & (free
An admirer of primitive 12 Feb, 23 Apr, 18 May, 11 & 24 Sep
Catalan art and Gaudí’s and for under 8s). 7 ∑ mac.cat
Modernisme (see pp144–5),
Miró always remained a Catalan Housed in the Renaissance-
painter but developed a Sur- inspired 1929 Palace of
realistic style, with vivid colours Graphic Arts, the museum
and fantastical forms sugges- shows artifacts from prehistory
ting dream-like situations. to the Visigothic period (AD
In 1975, after the return of 415–711). Highlights are
democracy to Spain (see p72), finds from the Greco-Roman
his friend, the architect Josep town of Empúries (see p220),
Lluís Sert, designed the stark, Iberian silver treasure and 12th-century Christ in Majesty, Museu
white building to house a Visigothic jewellery. Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

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