Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Barcelona · founded 1934
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, abbreviated as MNAC (Catalan: ), is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Situated on Montjuïc hill at the end of Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, near Pl Espanya, the museum is especially notable for its outstanding collection of Romanesque church paintings, and for Catalan art and design from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including modernisme and noucentisme. The museum is housed in the Palau Nacional, a huge, Italian-style building dating to 1929.
- Visitors a year
- 0.9MVisitors a year
- Founded
- 1934Founded
What to see
Helios Gómez
In the museum’s collection.
At the museum · Photo by MariaGarcia98, CC BY-SA 4.0
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
El Greco, 1595.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Madonna of Humility
Fra Angelico, 1433.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Saint Paul
Diego Velázquez, 1618.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Virgin of the Councillors
Lluís Dalmau, 1445.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Apse of Sant Climent de Taüll
Master of Taüll, 1123.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Plan your visit
Hours
Published on the museum’s own site. Confirm on www.museunacional.cat/ca before you travel.
Getting there
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On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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