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Fundació Miró

Address: Av. Miramar 71, Montjuïc, Barcelona, Catalonia
Phone: 93/443-9470
www.bcn.fjmiro.es

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Montjuïc

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Fodor's Review:

The Miró Foundation was a gift from the artist Joan Miró to his native city and is one of Barcelona's most exciting showcases of contemporary art. The airy, white building was designed by Josep Lluís Sert and opened in 1975; an extension was added by Sert's pupil Jaume Freixa in 1988. Miró's unmistakably playful and colorful style, filled with Mediterranean light and humor, seems a perfect contrast for its minimalist surroundings. Exhibits and retrospectives here tend to be progressive and provocative. Look for Alexander Calder's mercury fountain. Miró himself rests in the cemetery on Montjuïc's southern slopes. During the Franco regime, which he strongly opposed, Miró first lived in self-imposed exile in Paris then moved to Majorca in 1956. When he died in 1983, the Catalans gave him a send-off amounting to a state funeral.

Cost: EUR 8.50
Open: Tues., Wed., Fri., and Sat. 10-7, Thurs. 10-9:30, Sun. 10-2:30

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