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Spectacularly housed in a row of adjoining palaces at Nos 15-23, the Museu Picasso is one of the most visited museums in the city.

The museum first opened in 1963 and the original collection was made up of Jamie Sabartés donation (574 works), the items that Picasso had previously given to the city of Barcelona, those that had previously been in the possession of the city’s museum of modern art plus other gifts from Picasso’s friends and collectors.

After Sabartés death in 1968, Picasso himself donated a large number of items to the museum, including approximately 1000 items of his early work which his family had been keeping for him ever since the time he first settled in France. This included school books, academic pieces and paintings from Picasso’s Blue Period. There are now more than 3,500 works making up the permanent collection of the museum.

The museum contains very few of Picasso’s most famous paintings, apart from the series based on Velazquez’s Las Meninas, and focused instead on the artist’s early work in Barcelona.

Try El Xampanyet afterwards for a few glasses of cava and some tasty tapas.