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The Museu Picasso (Picasso Museum) in Barcelona, Spain, has one of the most extensive collections of artworks by the 20th century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. So if you are in Barcelona for tourist or whatever purposes, this is for sure one of the most significant, popular and visited museums in Barcelona.

The museum is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces in Barcelona’s Barri Gotic. There are more than 3,500 works making up the permanent collection of the museum, mostly his early works from when he lived in Barcelona. Picasso arrived in the city in 1894, when his father, an art teacher, had found work teaching in the city art school. Highlights of the collection include two of his first major works, The First Communion, and Science and Charity. In particular, the Museu Picasso reveals Picasso’s relationship with the city of Barcelona, a relationship that was shaped in his youth and adolescence, and continued until his death.

The Museu Picasso contains the following collections, organized by date:

1. Malaga
2. Corunna
3. Barcelona
4. Malaga: summers of 1896 and 1897
5. Madrid
6. Horta de Sant Joan
7. Barcelona: 1899–1900
8. Paris: 1900–1901
9. The Blue Period
10. The Rose Period
11. Barcelona: 1917
12. 1917–1957
13. Las Meninas
14. Picasso engraver
15. Picasso ceramist

Museu Picasso is located on Montcada Street, 15-23, 08003 Barcelona (Spain) and you can contact them at the following phone (+34) 932 563 000. It is opened from 9.30am to 5.30pm from October 1st to March 31st, 9.30am to 6pm from April 1st to September 30th and can be reached by Saint-Paul station on line 1 (10 minutes walk).