It was over a year ago, before the March 2020 lockdown, when the idea occurred for boosting the collaboration between two neighbouring museums. Following the “Picasso and Artists’ Jewellery” exhibition, and bearing in mind the ...
Picasso and jewellery
From the drawings he carried out during his youth in Barcelona or Madrid, to the copper engravings during the last years of his life, jewels would occupy a unique place in Pablo Picasso's pictorial and ...
The international symposium “Around Picasso”. A case about Cleaning Treatments on Sensitive Painted Surfaces
The international symposium Around Picasso: An insight into the relationship between material choices and failure mechanisms, held at the Museu Picasso de Barcelona in 2018, was a multidisciplinary forum coordinated by the museum’s Department of ...
J’AIMAIS JAMAIS
Nick de Morgoli, ‘Picasso with the Surrealist object "Jamais" by Oscar Domínguez’, Paris, 1947 You’re either Dada or you’re not. Given that chance doesn’t belong to anyone, no more than the privilege of the absurd, ...
Museums in the news more than ever, in times of pandemic
For museums the need has long been clear to rethink their cultural and social role and how their contents reach the public. The Covid-19 lockdown, apart from its immediate impact, has caused this reinvention process ...
“Exhibition Picasso 1936”: a tool between archiving, the semantic web and data visualisation
In 2011, the Museu Picasso organised the documentary exhibition "Picasso 1936. Traces of an exhibition". On the occasion of this exhibition, which, using technological resources, narrated how Picasso's exhibition, which took place in Barcelona, Bilbao ...
The origins of the Museu Picasso online
In 2013 the Museu Picasso celebrated its 50th anniversary. To commemorate this anniversary, a documentary exhibition was presented, explaining the genesis of the museum. As a result of the research carried out on the occasion ...
Inhabitants of the museum: María Picasso López, the mother of a genius
Almost always in profile, sewing or reading. This is how the young Picasso used to draw and paint his mother, María Picasso López (1855-1938), a character in the family nucleus who always went rather unnoticed. ...