Museu Picasso

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Museu Picasso

Museo Picasso de Barcelona
Location within Barcelona
Established	9 March 1963; 61 years ago (1963-03-09)
Location	Montcada Street, Barcelona, Spain
Coordinates	41°23′07″N 2°10′51″E / 41.385216°N 2.180893°E / 41.385216; 2.180893
Type	art museum
Visitors	1,045,837 (2010)
Director	Emmanuel Guigon
Curator	Malén Gual
Website	museupicasso.bcn.cat

The Museu Picasso (Catalan pronunciation: [muˈzɛw piˈkasu], "Picasso Museum") is an art museum in Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It houses an extensive collection of artworks by the twentieth-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, with a total of 4251 of his works. It is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces on Montcada Street in the La Ribera neighborhood in the Old City of Barcelona.^[1] It opened to the public on 9 March 1963,^[2] becoming the first museum dedicated to Picasso's work and the only one created during his lifetime. It has since been declared a museum of national interest by the Government of Catalonia.^[3]

Highlights of the collection include two of his first major works, The First Communion (1896), and Science and Charity (1897). In particular, the Museu Picasso reveals Picasso's relationship with the city of Barcelona, a relationship that was shaped in his youth and adolescence and continued until his death.