Barcelona Picasso Museum Tickets and Visits

Considered one of the best museums in the city, a visit to the Picasso Museum is among the best things to do in Barcelona if you really want to know the city and the historical past that unites it with this important artist, buying your tickets to the Picasso Museum is one of the first things you should include in your itinerary.

Picasso, a native of Malaga, spent much of his youth and formative years in the Catalan capital, a fact that would undoubtedly mark his art and history. This and many other interesting details of his work are explained in the exhibition halls and the nearly 4,000 works on display. If you want to know more about what you will see and what to expect on your visit to the Museum, here is what to expect.

To access the Picasso Museum facilities there are two price categories and a free admission option. To start with, the general admission price is about 12 €.

• General Admission: General admission is available from 12€ for an adult admission ticket; this access is valid for both the permanent collection and temporary collections.
• Reduced admission: Reduced admission is available from 7€ and is valid for both the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. People who can access the reduced price are adults over 65, young people between 18 and 25, accredited university students (from any university in the world), unemployed people with the accreditation card to prove it.
• Free admission: The museum is always free for children under 18, children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult. It is free for all public on Thursdays from 16h on the1st Sunday of each month and on the days of open day on 12-13 February, 18 May and 24 September.

Guided tours of the Picasso Museum are very popular in the city of Barcelona; and yes, it is totally worth touring this space in the company of an expert guide because of the large collection of works exhibited here.

There are about 4,000 original works ranging from Picasso' s youth to his last creative phases.

If you want to take a guided tour of the Picasso Museum (which I recommend) there are two main ways.

Organized tours

Several companies in Barcelona organize guided tours to the Picasso Museum. Depending on the company you hire, this experience can combine a visit to the museum with other places important to the artist's life and work.

It is important to remember that Picasso felt a great attachment to Barcelona, a city where he lived for many years and was also a student at the prestigious art academy La Llotja, where his father was a teacher.

• Price: Approximately 30€ and includes entrance to the museum without queues.

Guided tours of the museum

The museum itself organizes guided tours through the permanent Picasso exhibition. Reservations must be made by purchasing tickets directly on their website and quotas are subject to availability in a limited time slot and on limited days.

• Guided tours in Catalan: Sundays at 12:45h.
• Guided toursin Spanish: Sundays at 12:30 p.m.
• Guided tours in English: Sundays at 11 a.m.
• Guided tours in French: Sundays at 11:15 a.m.
• Price: About 6€ for the tour and about 12€ for the entrance to the museum.

If you prefer, you can purchase your entrance ticket to the Picasso Museum directly at the ticket office. Just keep in mind that the museum ticket office operates every day until 30 minutes before the official closing time, so if you schedule your visit for the end of a day of exploration you should organize the route and arrive in time.

Keep in mind that the museum operates on a limited capacity and if tickets for a day are sold out early the box office will close earlier.

Therefore, the best option is always to buy tickets in advance using a website such as Hellotickets. This avoids not only the entrance queue but also the always existing possibility of running out of tickets in times of high tourist influx such as the summer monthsin Barcelona.

Of course they are! The Picasso Museum is included in one of the most popular tourist cards in the city: The Museum Pass Barcelona. A card designed to be valid for 12 months that grants visitors entry to 6 of the main museums of the Catalan capital, most of them with a high focus on the visual arts and avant-garde movements to which Picasso belonged.

Other museums that you can visit if you buy this pass are: the Antoni Tàpies Foundation and the Joan Miró Foundation, both great representatives of Catalan art from the beginning of the last century.

• Price: The entrance fee for the Museum Pass card is around 35€, it is free for children but they must be accompanied by an adult who buys the pass.

Located in Montcada street, in the neighborhood of El Born. The Picasso Museum is located in one of the oldest areas of Barcelona. Its strategic location makes it easy to get to this part of the city and you will find several means of transport to move to this particular area.

Here are the most popular and recommended ones.

• Tourist bus One of the best ways to move through the different monuments and tourist attractions of Barcelona. There are several buses but if you hire the Hop On Hop Off, the red route that stops in the Gothic Quarter is very close to the museum.
• Barcelona Metro: Jaume I metro station (lines L1 and L4) is a 4 minute walk from the museum entrance.
• Barcelona Tram: If you use the city streetcar, the Wellington stop is a 15-minute walk from the museum entrance.
• Barcelona Bus: Numerous bus stops stop in the vicinity of the museum; the closest ones are Princesa - Montcada and Pla De Palau less than 5 minutes away.

Totally! The most popular Picasso's art has a close relationship with the forms of manifestation of children's art, mainly in children under 8 years of age. This fact makes it very easy for young people to bond with the artist's form of expression and to pay close attention to the works.

I believe that the best way to integrate children into the experience is to hire an expert guide capable of explaining in detail the most important and interesting aspects, as well as the issues related to its evolution.

If you visit Barcelona with children and family, this can be an enriching experience for everyone.

The museum's permanent collection explores like no other the earliest stages of the artist's formation and evolution. This translates into a collection of works that not many linked to his most popular cubist and modernist works. In this sense I consider the following to be very worthwhile to pay attention to...

• Formative stagein Barcelona: During this period he made impressive works such as the portrait called "Man with a Beret", when he was only 14 years old, or the painting "Science and Charity" at the age of 15.
• Blue period: in the Museum you will find many works belonging to Picasso' s blue period, one of the most outstanding being "Woman with the Bonnet".
• Pink period: From this period the work "Harlequin**"** stands out
• Collection of Las Meninas: You will surely recognize Picasso's reinterpretation of the famous painting by Velazques entitled "Las Meninas", one of the most important works in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Picasso's obsession with this work was so great that he even painted 58 versions of his own, most of which can be found in this museum.

In the collection of works of the museum you will find more than 4000 original pieces only in the permanent collection but the tour through the different spaces can be done without problems in about 90 minutes.

As you will realize when you visit the museum, it occupies the premises of what was once a set of palaces or upper-class housing in the Gothic Quarter, one of the oldest areas of the city.

Five Gothic-style buildings located on Montcada Street have served, after numerous renovations, to give life to the exhibition space we enjoy today. This is why, alternating with the collections, you will come across small spaces that present an original design of the eighteenth century.

Despite the extensive collection the tour is done quickly and very agile.

Before visiting the Picasso Museum facilities, please note the opening hours and the specific days when the institution is closed to the public.

• From Tuesday to Sunday the museum is open from 09:00h until 19:00h.
• Every Thursday the museum works extended hours, open until 21:30h.
• Every Monday the museum is closed including Monday holidays.
• Every 24th and 31st of December, due to Christmas in Barcelona, the opening hours are from 10:00h to 14:00h.
• Every 5th of January the opening hours are from 10:00h to 17:00h.

Before organizing your visit you should keep in mind the days of the annual calendar that the museum is closed for holidays or rest days for the staff. These are January 1st, May 1st, June 24th, December 25th and 26th.

Visiting the Picasso Museum is not much different from any other exhibition space you have been to before. However, here are a few simple tips to keep in mind to make your visit more enjoyable.

• Arrive early, to get the most out of your visit you can arrive at the museum at opening time. It is one of the attractions in Barcelona that opens earlier all year round.
• Pets are not allowed, with the exception of guide dogs, the museum does not allow pets.
• Backpacks and suitcases are not allowed, backpacks, suitcases and bags larger than 30x30 cm are prohibited, I recommend leaving them in the hotel or in the locker service offered by the museum.
• You can take pictures without flash, but only for personal use. If you need any kind of commercial photography you must get a special permission.
• Keep your cell phone on silent or with a really low ringer.
• Keep your distance, you are not allowed to touch the works.

In the Picasso Museum in Barcelona you will find a nice shop-bookshop LAIE. This space is conceived with a series of objects that allow you to extend the experience of your visit to the museum, finding items for those who are just beginning to appreciate the work of Picasso as well as for those who are specialists in art or specifically in the art of Picasso.

In the store you will find studies about the life of the painter, about the relationship of Picasso with the city of Barcelona, about the artistic influences of Picasso, about his influence on contemporary art and material for children and young audiences.

The gastronomic offer in the surroundings of the museum is varied, so no matter what you feel like eating you will find excellent alternatives. Here is a list of suggestions with some recommended places.

• Morelia Excellent place to eat Argentinean style grilled meats and a great variety of Spanish tapas. Tucco Real Food Born Economic Italian restaurant located 7 minutes from the museum.
• Restaurant La Catalana Excellent alternative to taste traditional Catalan food, located just 4 minutes walk from the museum.
• Pla de la Garsa Another excellent alternative for traditional food, located just 2 minutes walk from the museum.