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 (more…)
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 ...
At the Club we talk about creative drawing and much more
Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'élephants, by Mathias Enard, was a terrific starting point for a discussion not only of the novel itself (about the mysterious and undocumented journey that Michelangelo made to Istanbul ...
How to set up a Big Draw (Museu Picasso-style)
On Sunday 23 October we celebrated the second annual Big Draw Festival of Drawing, an initiative originally launched in London that explores drawing not only as a creative medium but also as a great form ...
A Palazzo by the Arno for Picasso
The Palazzo Giulia Rosselmini Gualandi, a magnificent Renaissance mansion on the banks of the Arno, is home to the Fondazzione Palazzo Blu, and is hosting the exhibition “Ho voluto essere pittore e sono diventato Picasso” ...
We Learn More from the Children than They Learn from Us! Our Collaboration with the Hospital de Sant Joan de Déu
We have been collaborating with the Hospital de Sant Joan de Déu for two years now, by way of the volunteers department, and we would like to think that the girls and boys with whom ...
A post post – Big Draw
After a project that people have put a lot of hours, energies and hopes into it always takes a little time to put your emotions in place again and look back on the whole thing ...
Drawing as a protagonist
This Sunday, 24 October, the Museu Picasso will host the first Barcelona celebration of the "BIG DRAW Festival of Drawing”, an initiative that originated in London (and has since spread to a number of cities ...