Night of Museums in Barcelona

More than 80 cultural centers open their doors this Saturday from 7:00pm to 1:00am

Night of Museums in Barcelona

A May 2008 started the first edition of the Night of Museums in Catalonia. Now, eight years later, the event has become a must for many Catalans. Especially in Barcelona area, where a total of 83 museums will open their doors to celebrate the artistic night of the year. The initiative includes over 150 different activities, such as historical re-enactments, lectures, guided tours, concerts and workshops, among others.

Saturday May 21 open days will be held in different centers from 1900 hours until dawn. The novelty of this edition is binding to the network of participating spaces of Mies van der Rohe, the Fundació Ramon Pla Armengol, Palau Güell Foundation and a New Museum of Badalona: the Conducte d’Aigües. In addition, the Botanical Garden will schedule a night guided tour of a dozen volunteers.

Arts Santa Monica is one of the essential to visit. In addition to the exhibits ‘Nous Relats Fotogràfics’, ‘Permit yourself …’ and ‘Roger Bernat / Cicle Zande Xarxa’, the cultural center will offer guided tours and various musical activities from 20.00 to 23.00 hours, one of the hand students of the music department Antiga de l’ESMUC.

This Saturday night entry to museums in Barcelona is free
The CaixaForum hosts the exhibition “Impressionists and modern. Masterpieces from the Phillips Collection ‘, which forms one of the most important collections of modern art and avant-garde US Exhibits works by renowned artists such as Pollock, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Degas and Picasso, among others. The appointment coincides with the second edition of Comisart, in this case dubbed ‘iconoclasts gestures, imatges heterodox’, which offers young professionals the opportunity to make a curatorial from funds Contemporary Art Collection “la Caixa” , the MACBA and the work of young artists. They also screened shorts and animation for children and youth will be a jazz concert with Threejay Eva Fernández.

The Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB) presents the work of over 120 artists and African artists through the exhibition ‘Making Africa. A continent of contemporary design ‘and hold a Poetry Slam, a platform for the dissemination of oral literature which gives the possibility to anyone who writes poetry go on stage.
Meanwhile, CosmoCaixa makes a journey on the origin and evolution of human beings with ‘The bressol of Humanitat’ and seeks to raise awareness of the nature with ‘Life salvatge. Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 ‘. The activities range from CosmoCaixa will host a workshop for astronomical observation and a show that mixes music and science to 3D planetarium sessions.

The CCM Born Barcelona recovers the eighteenth century with thousands of objects that the citizens of that time used in their daily lives. Also, every twenty minutes will project a set of kaleidoscopic images on the dome of the building and offer guided tours through the center.

The Night of the Museums bring the work of Joan Miró from the Foundation of the Catalan artist not only from his work, but also through ‘Murals’, a documentary by Pilar Pérez Solano Murals reminiscent of the exhibition of the same name that was presented at the Foundation February 19 to June 6, 2010.

The Botanical Garden is another essential of this edition. The museum suggests a self guided tour in which, with the help of a flashlight, visitors can discover the characteristics and curiosities of the environment. The music will also be present in the hands of the Free Time Band, which will perform at 21.00 and 23.00 hours.

The cultural centers will be open from 19.00 until early morning
The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona hosts a total of four exhibitions, ‘Andrea Fraser. L’1%, c’est moi ‘,’ Desitjos i necessitats. Noves incorporacions to cabbage • lecció MACBA ‘,’ Punk. Els seus  Rastres en l’art contemporani ‘and’ José Antonio Hernández-Díez. No tinc por de cap mal ‘. Among the planned activities include a workshop for families with children between 6 and 12 years and a creative workshop for young people aged 14 to 18 years. At 20 i 22 hours dance come to the forefront with the show ‘REM’, a directed and performed by Manuel Rodriguez and organized in collaboration with Graner activity.

Egyptology lovers can take the opportunity to make a visit to the Egyptian Museum, whose permanent collection houses over 1,200 pieces. In addition also you can visit the temporary exhibitions’ Tutankhamen. Història d’un descobriment ‘and’ Osiris, déu d’Egipte ‘. It will also open the Design Museum of Barcelona, which hosts five samples: ‘mon the museu. Disseny de producte, cultural heritage ‘,’ extraordinàries! Col·leccions d’arts i decoratives arts d’author (segles III-XX) ‘,’ The cos VESTIT. I trendy silhouettes (1550-2015) ‘,’ The gràfic disseny: d’ofici to PROFESSIO (1940-1980) ‘and’ Tangibles ‘.
This Saturday the National d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Museum will also open its doors to the public to showcase their Romanesque murals, modernism of Gaudí and 20 masterpieces from the collection of Antonio Gallardo Ballart and dating from the twelfth to the sixteenth century . Even cartoons have their place in this edition, in which the joint work of the authors of the graphic novel ‘Las Meninas’ (National Comic Award 2015) will be discussed.

Pablo Picasso and his museum are another essential for the appointment. The exhibition reveals the link between the artist and Barcelona, forged during his adolescence and youth. The museum also hosts an important representation of works of 1917 and the series of ‘Las Meninas’ (1957), as well as a comprehensive collection of engravings.

Barcelona opens its workshops
The Catalan capital not only open its museums to all audiences, but also held the XXIII edition of “Tallers oberts Barcelona,” a project in which the collective of artists from different districts of the metropolis invite citizens to come in their studies and art workshops. The initiative aims to bring art, crafts and the work of creators to the public of Barcelona

Workshops Poble Sec districts, Ciutat Vella, Gràcia and Sarrià will open their doors over the last two weekends of May. Visitors will have the opportunity to asistiral creative process in action and discover the perpetrators behind each artistic piece. The open days will be held between 20 and 22 May (Ciutat Vella and Poble Sec) and between 27 and 29 May (Gràcia and Sarrià).

Barcelona City Council has created a virtual map that places shops throughout Catalonia, to give them the option to make themselves known and to contribute to the creation of a network of artisans.

Please visit our websites:

Barcelona Car Service Airport

Car Service Barcelona

Car Service Barcelona to Cruise Port

Chauffeur Barcelona airport

Car Service Madrid

The first house built by Antoni Gaudí was the Casa Vicens in Barcelona (1883), ​​which will open to the public soon

An English estate was offering the home in 2007 for 35 million euros | The bank’s investor Hermitage of Barcelona which could be in Gràcia.

Barcelona wins a new Gaudí. Vicens house, across the street from Carolines (Gràcia), will become a house museum open to the public, which will join other iconic buildings like La Pedrera, Casa Batlló and Palau Güell, authentic pilgrimage centers to which each year millions of tourists come.

The building, so far not visited since it is a private home that has been passed from father to son since 1899 when it was acquired by Antonio Jover, grandfather of the current owners, has been bought by MoraBanc with will give a new public use. As confirmed to this newspaper fountains of the great Andorran bank, the operation is virtually closed and already working on the selection of an operator with experience in the management of future house-museum. “We are interested in the Barcelona brand and retrieve a landmark building in the city. We’re thrilled to offer the opportunity to visit Barcelona this building will be a cultural and tourist offer of the first order”, summarized Ivan Comerma La Vanguardia, Amura Capital, the investment company MoraBanc, through which the operation is being performed, the amount of which has not transpired so far.

The house is owned Vicens family Herreros Jover and was for sale at least since 2007, when a British realtor put ads in newspapers like The Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph and The Independent in which the property was being offered to groups of investors for 35 million euros. Yesterday you could still find on the internet website that Atadicion property, located in Castell d’Aro, a monograph devoted to the sale of Casa Vicens, “a masterpiece of world renown, a unique opportunity to own a property designed by the great Antoni Gaudí “. you can read in English, Russian, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese. Not a word in Castilian or Catalan.

Vicens, a modernist gem declared a Historic-Artistic Monument of National Interest and a World Heritage Site by Unesco, house still has no opening date. MoraBanc is also the largest investor group that showed interest in joining the project of a franchise Hermitage Museum in Barcelona, which suggests that the house Vicens could be chosen by the emblematic Russian Museum to the announced submission of its funds prior to the opening of its headquarters in the port of Barcelona. From the Andorran bank argue that while it is true that at the moment the possibility of scheduling exhibition is not contemplated, not rule that may be made in the future. That answer, for now, will have to wait.

The Casa Vicens was the first major commission of a young Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (1852-1926 ) . He arrived in 1883 , just five years after the conclusion of his studies at the Provincial School of Architecture of Barcelona (where certainly not stood out in his notes ) . It was projecting a summer villa on the outskirts of the city, in the streets of Gràcia Carolines for a singular client, the tile manufacturer Manuel Vicens i Montaner. That same year, 1883 , he was commissioned to house El Capricho in Comillas and start working in the atoning Sagrada Família, a project that will last for more than forty years. The Carolines Street also took his time. This culminated in 1888 and included a house and garden . In the latter , surrounding the building , was a waterfall and pond , but you lost the sale of a large part of the land. The house is covered with brick and glazed ceramics in which medieval and Arab influences appear . Abound lines and right angles, so scarce in the later work of the architect, but it is a very imaginative and with great concern for building ornamental elements . In 1899 Manuel Vicens widow sold the house to the family Jover , who has hitherto preserved in exquisite pampering .

Gaudí’s name is a magnet for tourism, which flock to Barcelona fascinated by a work around which bloom every day more and more businesses, more and more lucrative. Barcelona is now known worldwide as the city of Gaudi and modernism. Indesmayables, sights such as the Sagrada Família (3,233,526 visitors in 2012), La Pedrera (861,583), Casa Batlló (780,466), the Palau Güell (254,609) or Park Güell (more than eight million a year), icons that are entered in the XXI century exercise their power of attraction for hundreds of thousands of tourists to the point that the legacy Gaudi, reviled for so long, they become a powerful economic engine for the city. Last November eleven architect building owners signed the Declaration of Mataró to protect and promote their work.

Please visit our websites:

Barcelona Car Service Airport

Car Service Barcelona

Car Service Barcelona to Cruise Port

Chauffeur Barcelona airport

Car Service Madrid