27th March 2013

Anecdotes and impressions of the 50th anniversary

On Saturday March 9th the Museu Picasso celebrated the 50th anniversary of its inauguration. Quite a milestone, particularly if we take into account the Barcelona of 1963 and the political environment of the time.

Placement of the plaque of the Museu Picasso. c. 1966. Photo: Hernández

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20th March 2013

The conservation and restoration of pastel

On February 28th the Museu Picasso organised a seminar entitled The pastel technique: specificities of its conservation and restoration.

Restoration detail of the Portrait of the Artist’s Mother

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9th January 2013

2012 of the Museu Picasso in images

We are starting 2013 very much on the right foot and with good perspectives for the future of the museum.  Nevertheless, we don’t want to forget everything we did in 2012, so you can find here a small selection of images of some of the projects we carried out in the museum last year:

In 2012 we started a new period in the hands of the director Bernardo Laniado-Romero, focusing especially on a revision of the Collection of the museum, as well as giving emphasis to education and accessibility from all the fields.

Man leaning against a wall. Pablo Picasso 1899 | Just what was it that made yesterday’s homes so different, so appealing? Richard Hamilton, 1992

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20th December 2012

Things to do at the Museu Picasso during the Christmas holidays

No plans for the holidays? If this Christmas you are in Barcelona we propose activities for all the family that you can do either if you come to the museum or if you stay at home:

· Visit the exhibition “Picasso ceramics. Jacqueline’s gift to Barcelona”: an exhibition organized on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the donation by Jacqueline Picasso of 41 ceramic pieces produced by the artist.

One of the display cabinets of the exhibition “Picasso ceramics. Jacqueline’s gift to Barcelona”

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5th December 2012

The need to reflect so as to continue acting in terms of education

On the 21st, 22nd and 23rd November, part of the Educational Team of the museum attended the 2nd International Congress: Museums in Education. From the outset, it seemed to us to be an interesting topic, around which the contents were based: “From action to reflection”.

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21st November 2012

Picasso in the memory

A new activity began in the Museum on 15th October, a six-month long memory workshop for the elderly with the aim of getting the elderly people of the neighbourhood closer to the work and life of Picasso.

The workshop leader Mónica Zevallos and the attendees

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5th October 2012

Storytelling is back at the museum: the second edition of “Contes i Tocs”

Two years ago, the museum proposed to children and adults a new way of enjoying and looking at the works of the Collection through the tales and the stories that Patricia McGill and Ignasi Potrony, two storytellers with a long trajectory, constructed in the rooms with their imagination and that of all the participants.

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26th July 2012

What to do in the summer at the Museu Picasso

Will you be spending your summer holidays in Barcelona? Both if you are from the city or from outside, we propose a number of activities so that you can spend a cool time away from the heat:

28th June 2012

The 2012-2013 season in the Museu Picasso

With Bernardo Laniado-Romero at the front, a new period starts for the museum, with a lot of enthusiasm both from the new director and from the team of the museum. In his presentation of the new 2012-2013 season, he outlined the following lines of action:

• To consider the collection as the central axis of the work of the museum.
• To conceive the tasks and functions of the museum with an eminently pedagogical character.
• To foster the access of the public to art and culture, in a special way for those collectives that have traditionally been excluded.
• To boost access to knowledge and fluent dialogue between works of art and the public.
• To foster local-global access: on the one hand, in terms of its surrounding area (neighbourhood – city), and on the other hand, at a global level, through a creative and dynamic website.
• To offer a quality experience both onsite and online.

Self-portrait. Pablo Picasso. 1899-1900. Cardboard on paper 22.5 x 16.5 cm Donation by the artist, 1970 © Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid 2012

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20th June 2012

Pi, pica, picas(so): music and neighbourhood in the museum

Within the project entitled Pi, pica, picas(so), and for the second year in a row, the Museu Picasso opened its doors one Spring Monday for the boys and girls from the nursery schools of the neighbourhood to offer them a live music concert given by the group Tres & Jazz. The musical proposal was inspired by a selection of five paintings, a piece of pottery by Picasso and some photographs that the children had the chance to look at and observe in detail during the school course.

Children from the neighbourhood in the middle of a concert

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