Museums Spain - Attractions

Once the home of the wealthiest Banker in Mallorca, the Palau March Museum (Museum of Bartolome March) houses a unique collection of sculptures, medieval engravings and carvings, and an 18th century Neapolitan nativity scene. Operated by the same foundation, a library specializing in Balearic Islands texts can be found near the museum as well. Admission to the museum is €4.50. Timings differ seasonally, call for details.

The Museum has a fantastic collection of Picasso's art on display as well as a number of temporary exhibitions through out the year.

A collection purchased from the private collection of a German-Hungarian family with works from Titian, El Greco, Rubens, Cezanne, Monet, Van Gogh, Miro, Picasso, Gris, Pollock, Dali and Lichenstein.

The Museum of Roman villas Almenara-Puras opened in May 2003, has sections devoted to explaining how the Roman Empire worked. the management of an ideal Roman village types of villages, the villages as units of production, leisure, religion and the burial ceremonies.

In my opinion is the best designed roman museum that I've ever been. There is a relative museum in Empuries, Catalunya, but this one is recent and best oriented.

The Museo del Traje (Museum of Clothing), was awarded the National Prize for Architecture in 1969. The museum displays period clothing and has an in-house team that preserves, maintains and catalogs the displays. The museum houses historical dresses, contemporary and popular costumes, jewelery, household equipments, textile fabrics, leisure and economical activity items, religious products and even documentary of important figures of Spain. Costumes are not displayed for long as they are of the 18th and 19th Centuries and most of them are fragile. Hence, every six months there is change of display.

On the Picasso and Miro Art Museums Tour discover art expressions of Picasso and Miro with an expert Local Art Guide. The Barcelona Picasso Museum clearly confirms the ties that unite Pablo Picasso with the city of Barcelona. It holds the most important and exhaustive collections of the works of Pablo Picasso's youth and education. The Joan Miró Foundation Museum was set up on the initiative of Joan Miró thanks to the donations he made to his hometown. Miró conceived it as a living center where students and general public could become familiar with his work and also contemporary art trends.

Museu Futbol Club Barcelona is a soccer fan's paradise. The focus is on Barcelona soccer, but the museum also presents a number of artistic and thoughtful reflections on the sport as a whole. A well laid-out and visually appealing museum, it displays photos and trophies, and there are even videos of FC Barcelona in action. Since 1899, Barcelona has been a force to reckon with in European soccer, and this museum takes you through the entire history, right up to the present day: you can opt for a guided tour of the stadium, which offers a visit to the press boxes, the away teams' locker room, and even the sacred field itself. Check website for visiting hours.

If you’re in Bilbao, you can’t miss going to the Guggenheim museum, it’s almost worth traveling here just to visit the museum. It’s not just the art inside the museum that is worth the visit, but the museums construction is a great experience in itself

The Prado museum is one of Madrid’s most visited attractions. The museum’s collection is actually one of the largest in the world. It is a beautiful building, and you could almost go there just to see it from the outside. If you go inside, you can see the museums large collection, mostly Spanish paintings, amongst the biggest names Murillo, Goya, El Greco, Velazquez.

Small but excellent museum if you are a fan of the eccentric surrealist artist and easily done in a day trip from the coast or Barcelona.

You can embark on a journey through the life and work of Valencian painter, Joaqua Sorolla (1863-1923), in this fascinating museum. It's located in what was his home and studio, donated to the Spanish state by his widow. Some 300 canvasses and thousands of drawings are spread throughout the three floors. The first floor contains his home and the three studios where he worked. The second floor displays most of his paintings and the ground floor is devoted to his drawings. According to Sorolla, the world was a calm and peaceful place and you'll find this museum to be an oasis of tranquillity. He was a master of light and shade and concentrated on painting the female form as well as children and the sea.

Ibiza's contemporary art museum (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, or MAC, for short), can be found in one of the historic buildings that is part of the city walls - the arms room in the San Juan bastion, above the main gate of the city walls, la Puerta de Taules. The museum came into being as a result of the biennial international art show that took place for the first time in 1963. Nowadays, the museum organizes several exhibitions throughout the year, including collections of works by local contemporary artists, as well as exhibitions organized by other entities. The museum continues to organize the biennial international art exhibition, which includes works from all over the world. The works owned by the museum include pieces by Barry Flanagan, Hans Hinterreiter, Erwin Broner and Will Faber.

The current Archeological Museum of Seville traces its roots to the mid-19th Century, with the creation of a few private collections that today have been integrated into the present museum. The Museum has three floors: in the bottom floor prehistoric remains from the province are on display to the public, arranged in chronological order, from the Lower Paleolithic in Room I to the Iberoturdetano Period in Room X. On the main floor, materials from the Roman era and following eras are displayed. These materials come from all over the province, and even from further, but the majority of them, above all those of greatest artistic quality, were found in the excavations done in the ancient city of Itálica, birthplace of the emperors Trajano and Adriano. The first floor is reserved for various museum services and for researchers. The Archeological Museum has become, thus, the center of conservation and diffusion of the material testimonies, that illustrate the process of Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula, and that help know more about life in this period.

Situated inside the renaissance city wall the museum houses many works that have been contributed by institutions such as The Palma Town Council, the Mallorcan Council, the Balearic Autonomous Community and the savings bank Sa Nostra. Most of the works, however, belong to the businessman Pere Serra who has allowed the museum to put on exhibition most of his stunning collection. The building is constructed of white concrete and features many artists including Picasso, Miró, Tàpies, and Barceló. There is also a restaurant and gift shop. Entrance is about six euros.

The National Museum of Decorative Arts, also called Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas is dedicated to decorative arts from around the world. It was started in 1912 and is now the property of the Ministry of Culture Dirección General de Bellas Artes and Bienes Culturales General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets. There are a variety of colorful collections which will surprise you to your heart's content. A specialty in the Museum is the Chinese porcelain collection from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and many more artifacts from China. Roman glass objects and Coptic fabrics are some of the valuable artifacts housed here. Many other collections of rare old coins, textiles, utensils, pottery are also featured. A lot of ideas and creativity of the generations gone by can be viewed and one can experience the changes that have taken place over the years.