The Fundació Joan Miró is one of the museums that is run by a foundation of the same name and is dedicated to the artist Joan Miró. Many of the art pieces that are displayed in the halls of this museum are by Joan Miró and also by other contemporary artists like Alexander Calder.
Thursday-Sunday: 10am-6pm
Adults: 14 €
Reduced Admission: (Students between 15-30 years old, seniors over 65 years old): 7 €
Children (under 15 years old): 0,00 €
The regular admission price for the Fundació Joan Miró art museum totals to about 12 €. Students and university students between 15 and 30 years old, as well as seniors over 65 years old can be admitted at a reduced price of 7 €. Save yourself the trouble from waiting in long lines to buy your tickets at the ticket counter during summer visits to Barcelona. Tickets into the Fundació Joan Miró art museum are already included in your Barcelona City Pass so that you don’t need to pay admission fees. Simply walk past the waiting line, through the entrance of the museum and admire the impressive exhibitions.
With your convenient Barcelona City Pass, you will experience the Fundació Joan Miró art museum for FREE. Before you trip to Barcelona, you will not only receive your ticket into the Fundació Joan Miró art museum, but also tickets for other top attractions in one complete package. Your public transportation ticket is also a fixed component of the Barcelona City Pass and it gives you a wonderful head-start for having a relaxing stay in the Spanish metropole.
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Parc de Montjuïc, s/n
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The Joan Miro paintings can be found in the central area of Barcelona, in Sants-Montjuïc. The Fundació Joan Miró (like the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya) is located at the foot of Montjuïc, which is the local mountain of Barcelona. Because the museum is located so centrally in the city, visiting the Fundació Joan is made even easier using the public transportation system.
Bus 55 or 150 to Av Miramar-Fundació Joan Miró.
This art museum is easily reachable using the public transportation system because of its central location. You can pick to use either bus line 55 or bus line 50 and ride until “Av Miramar-Fundació Joan Miró.”
The museum is closed on Mondays, as well as on the following dates: December 25 & 26, and January 1.
Last admissions into the museum takes place 30 minutes before the end of opening hours
Fundació Joan Miró art museum is also barrier-free.
Wifi is free for all guests of the Fundació Joan Miró art museum.
Located extremely nearby the Fundació Joan Miró is the Museu Nacional d`Art de Cataluny, which is the national museum of Barcelona. Here you can admire one of the largest collections of Romanesque frescos, as well as artwork from the Baroque and Renaissance periods. The exhibition center, CaixaForum, is also located nearby the Fundació Joan Miró where you can peruse through large collections of contemporary artwork, but also paintings form the 14th-18th century. If visiting Barcelona’s museums is not your thing, an excursion to the Jardì Botànic de Barcelona might be! This botanic garden is located near the Fundació Joan Miró art museum. Discover what the typical vegetation of this Mediterranean region is.
The history of the Fundació Joan Miró art museum started in 1975, during Joan Miró's lifetime (1893-1983). The Fundació Joan Miró is a foundation that operates this art museum, which is located on the Montjuïc. Over its history, the museum needed to be expanded twice so that the museum could have enough room to display Miró’s artwork.
A large part of Miró’s work was gifted to the foundation. Joan Miró’s wish from the start was that other contemporary artists should have a place in the Fundació Joan Miró art museum exhibitions. For this reason, exhibitions of artwork by artists from the 20th century are rotated in the museum.
The building that the Fundació Joan Miró art museum is housed by was created by the architect, Lluís Sert. Because he was friends with Joan Miró and was familiar with his artwork, he made a strong emphasis in his design of the building to allow ample amount of natural light to illuminate the museum.
A highlight in the Fundació Joan Miró art museum is the donated (by Alexander Calder) fountain, “font del mercuri,” which was created for the World Exhibition in 1973 in Paris. What’s special about this fountain is that mercury flows through instead of water. Because of this special feature, the fountain is protected behind a thick, glass wall.
Currently, the collection by the Fundació Joan Miró foundation boasts to have about 8,300 art objects, which includes almost all of Joan Miró’s graphical artwork, as well as 300 paintings, sculptures, textile art pieces, and ceramic pieces from other artists. Not all of these 8,000 objects will be showcased together, but rather in thematically organized areas. In this way, you can learn about Joan Miró and about his contemporaries.
Experience the Fundació Joan Miró art museum with the Barcelona City Pass for FREE and have your ticket into the Fundació Joan Miró art museum already in your pocket before you even arrive in Barcelona!
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