Note that in summer schedules change and that it will be useful before go you consult the web page to check it:. Don’t forget that if you rent an apartment in Barcelona, in the Raval area, MACBA art have very close. The best Museum of catalan art: MNAC if during your vacation in Barcelona you are strolling the Park of Montjuic, don’t forget to visit the MNAC. The National Museum of art of Catalonia (MNAC) is located precisely in the National Palace, representative of the international exhibition of 1929 building. Romanesque art hosts great importance among all collections. The Museum presents a series of mural paintings that make it unique in the world. Also offered different carvings in wood, precious metalwork, enamels and sculptures in stone. Most of the pieces are samples of the Romanesque painting in the Catalan community.

Of the Gothic era, the museum displays elaborate pieces through various techniques that serve to give example of this period of history in Catalonia. In the part devoted to the Renaissance and the Baroque are two tables Bartolome Bermejo, a Martyrdom of Ribera, an immaculate conception by Zurbaran and a famous San Pablo de Velazquez, one of the few safe that painter’s works preserved outside the Prado Museum. Since 2005, the Museum contains also some paintings painting of Catalunya from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, ceded in free deposit. Among them, there are paintings of Mariano Fortuny, Lluis Graner, Ramon Casas, Joaquim Mir, Hermen Anglada Camarasa, Joaquin Torres Garcia and Antoni Tapies. Also in recent times, the MNAC has added several paintings of Pablo Picasso, among which noteworthy woman in hat and fur collar, received as a dation in payment of taxes. A unique painting by Edvard Munch is on display as a loan from September 2007: Portrait of Thor Lutken, who was the Attorney for the painter. Hours are from 10: 00 to 7 pm h from Tuesday to Saturday.