Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

The Fundació Joan Miró nestles in park-like scenery on the north side of Montjuïc. It was here that the architects Josep Lluís Sert and Jaume Freixa erected a purpose-built home for the foundation established in 1971 by Joan Miró. The building, which was officially opened in 1988, is constructed in white concrete and comprises rigidly cubic elements, which on the inside are lit up by semi-circular skylights. There are two inner courtyards.

On the left of the entrance level, behind the ticket office, are the rooms reserved for short-term exhibitions of contemporary art, whilst the permanent exhibition occupies the right-hand part of the ground floor and the whole of the upper story. The museum's exhibits comprise about 5,000 items.

In the upper part of the building is a library; a cafeteria and also a kiosk selling books and prints are located on the ground floor.

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Important Information:

Official site: fundaciomiro-bcn.org/

Address: Parc de Montjuïc, E-08038 Barcelona, Spain

Opening hours: Jul 1 to Sep 30: 10am-8pm; Sun: 10am-2:30pm; Thu: 10am-9:30pm; Closed: Mon
Oct 1 to Jun 30: 10am-7pm; Sun: 10:30am-2:30pm; Thu: 10am-9:30pm; Closed: Mon

Always closed on: Epiphany (3 Kings' Day ) - Christian (Jan 6), New Year's Day (Jan 1), Catalunya Day - Spain (Sep 11), Our Lady of Mercy Celebrations - Spain (Sep 24), Day after Christmas, St Stephen's Day, Boxing Day (Dec 26), Christmas - Christian (Dec 25), Good Friday - Christian

Entrance fee in EUR: Adult €7.50, Concession or reduced rate €5.00

Useful tips: Operating hours on public holidays are the same as on winter season Sundays.

Parking: Pay

Disability Access: Full facilities for persons with disabilities.

Guides: Audio-visual presentations available. Guided tour available as optional extra.

Facilities: Gift shop, Restaurant or food service

Transit: Bus: 61, then the Funicular de Montjuic.

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Fundacio Joan Miro Highlights

History

A tour of the Miró collection in the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona begins to the right of the first inner courtyard. Here there is first of all a chronological overview of the artist's life and work (examples of his work in reproduction form; model of the Spanish pavilion for the Paris World Exhibition of 1937) and also an enormous, brilliantly colored wall tapestry. In the next passageway there is an original mercury fountain ("Font de Mercuri") by Alexander Calder. Then follows the plastic design for a group of figures in the Paris district of La Défense (in a colored man-made substance) and after that a room with numerous monochrome graphics.

Paintings

A staircase leads to the upper floor of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona; here can be seen an extensive collection of paintings and there is a good view from above over the previously mentioned group of figures and the wall tapestry. In front of the entrance to the roof terrace (with its excellent view over the city and its colored statues) stands the great marble "sun-bird"; this is followed by a series of original copper printing plates belonging to the "Mallorca" series. In the octagon are many small-scale graphics (starting in 1901 and displayed in choronological order clockwise). The collection is completed by some works by Miró's contemporaries (several Catalans; Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Henry Moore, etc.)