27th May 2013

This spring’s changes to the Collection

During this month of May we are carrying out new changes in the works exhibited in the Collection. In some cases, as for example the works on paper, the changes are being done for reasons of preventive conservation, but we are also taking advantage of these modifications to be able to show all the wealth of the Collection following a coherent expositive discourse and bringing to light works which perhaps are not so well known from these periods of Picasso.

Visitors in the galleries of the Collection

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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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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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27th December 2012

Attracting donors and collectors: the case of the Portland Museum of Art

We recently welcomed Mark Bessire, director of the Portland Museum of Art, to speak in the seminar on collecting and sponsorship organized by the museum and the Fundación Godia. We felt that his experience in fund raising, although belonging to a very different cultural and economic environment, was not only enlightening but it also provided us with helpful tips as to how to understand the relationship between donors and institutions, so we asked him to let us publish it in our blog.

Artists founded the Portland Society of Art in 1882. While most American museums were founded by industrialists aspiring to gain European sophistication and to bring cultural education to Americans, we were founded by people who wanted to make art and display it for their community.

First building of the Portland Society of Art

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14th December 2012

Art and patronage: from the private collection to public heritage, and the legal aspects that make it possible

At the end of October the exhibition “Picasso ceramics. Jacqueline’s gift to Barcelona” was presented, an exhibition that commemorates the 30th anniversary of the donation of 41 ceramic pieces from her private collection that Jacqueline gave to the Museu Picasso, Barcelona.

Postcard of the ceramics exhibition

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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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20th September 2012

Changes in the Collection for this autumn

This autumn we are carrying out various changes in the works of the Collection both of the paintings as well as the works on paper.  Due to questions of preventive conservation it is important to change the works on paper every three months: in this way, and given the fact that we have a very large collection of these works, the rotational system lets us see the various works that Picasso did in this format, at the same time as applying suitable criteria  for the conservation of works on paper.

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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:

12th July 2012

Inventory numbers: different periods, different decisions

We have recently received a group of students from the Master of Arts in Museum Studies from the Johns Hopkins University, with whom we chatted about numerous topics of the museum.  Among the topics there arose one question that in that moment we didn’t know how to answer, and it left us thoughtful!

The Wait (Margot). París 1901. MPB 4271. Plandiura acquisition | Enlarged detail of the numbers in red ink

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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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