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Miró Museum

Miró Museum

Fundació Joan Miró

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My rating: 4.5 stars

+ A Museum for lovers of Miró! It also offers a variety of exhibitions of other contemporany artists.

- If you aren't into Miró, this museum is not for you. Photography is only allowed after prior consent.

Piece of advice: Very long queue in summer.

Last updated: 27 Feb 2020 | Celine Mülich

The details at a glance

Opening hours: 
July - September: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., Thursday, 10.00 a.m. - 9.30 p.m., 
Sunday 10.00 a.m. - 2.30 p.m.
October - June: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Thursday, 10.00 a.m. - 9.30 p.m., 
Sunday 10.00 a.m. - 2.30 p.m.
Closed on Mondays

Price of admission:
Collection + exhibition:
13 Euro
​reduced price 7 Euro (peoples in the age from 15 - 30 years, senior citizens over the age of 65 (both with ID), adult groups);
School classes: 6 Euro
Only Exhibition: 
​7 Euro, reduced price 5 Euro, Groups and school classes: 4 Euro

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Articket:
free admission (buy online) 
BarcelonaCard:
free admission (buy online) 

Audio guide:
5 Euro (available in English)
Tours:
Private tours can be booked through the Museums-Website 

How to get there:
L2 (purple line), L3 (green line) to Paral.lel station, from here take the Funicular; 
Or L1 (red line), L3 (green line) to Placa Espanya, from here take a nice walk or the bus 55 or 150

And what’s there to see?

As indicated by its name, the Fundació Miró is dedicated to the artist Joan Miró. The foundation has 217 paintings, 178 sculptures, 9 textile works, 4 ceramic works, and almost the entire graphic artwork made by Miró (around 8,000) available. Obviously, not everything is on display at once, but it still gives you a chance to get to know the artist Miró on several levels and in thematically composed sections. Photographs of the artist at work or from his private life make the visit a bit less formal and help you get to know him on a more personal level.

The Fundació Miró has most of the artist’s work in one place, as Miró himself donated much of his work to the foundation.

Current exhibition:
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A history of the Miró Foundation

The Fundació Miró was founded in 1975 as a consequence of the popularity of an exhibition of Miró’s work in the Hospital Santa Creu in 1968.

The artist himself always wanted to show works by some of his contemporaries. As a result, the foundation has more than just Miró’s work on site; you can find other artists in their collection as well, resulting in a more fresh and unusual take. The foundation is also known as the “Center for the Study of Contemporary Arts” (Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani – the initial letters can be found at the entrance, too).

About Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà was born in 1893 in Barcelona. He was a painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and ceramicist. Miró began sketching at a very young age. His father, however, was opposed to the arts, and so Miró began an apprenticeship in business management. At the same time, however, he visited “La Llotja”, the academy of the arts where Picasso’s father had taught and Picasso himself had studied, until 1910.

From 1910 until 1911, Miró worked as an accountant for a drug store. In this year, however, he suffered a nervous breakdown (and fell ill with typhus), causing him to pack up and move to the country, where he ended up pursuing the arts after all.
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In the following years, Miró visited several art schools and drawing academies, and he also learned much about the works of French artists as well as those of Gaudí. 

In February 1918, Miró’s first solo exhibition started: 60 scenery paintings and still lives were presented.

From 1919 onward, Miró was drawn to Paris, where he met Picasso and Hemingway and joined the surrealists in 1924. He worked with artists such as Max Ernst and René Magritte, got Dalí to join the surrealists, and became friends with Alexander Calder. 

In 1956, he moved his permanent residence to Mallorca, where he mainly pursued sculpting. 

In 1971, Miró initiated the beginnings of the first foundation in Barcelona, followed by the second in 1981 on Mallorca. He justified the second location and its setup with the following words: “I hope no-one will ever get the idea to build one of those hideous sky scrapers in this place someday, as they already surround me everywhere else…”. It was his response to the booming Mallorca tourism.

Miró died on December 25th, 1983, aged 90 years, on Mallorca. 

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Other "sons" of Barcelona:
Picasso Museum
Foundation Antoni Tàpies
Frederic Marès Museum

Official website of the Miró Foundation (English): fundaciomiro-bcn.org
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