Picasso Museum - Barcelona - TravBuddy

I had wanted to go to the museu Picasso for a while, so I took the opportunity to go during this trip. We tried to get there early because I had seen some enormous lines some other times when I had walked past it. However, like always we got caught up on the trains and then found some people on the street, so we got there later than expected.
At first the line looked so long that we would have had to wait until night to get in there, but it moved surprisingly fast and we were inside in about half an hour.
If you buy the combined entrance (special exhibition + regular entrance) you go first to the special exhibit. This time it was the art that was in Picasso's apartment at the time of his death. It was really nice to see it first because you could see the influence of some painters in his work. He had a lot of African masks and sculptures which can clearly be seen in his Demoiselles D'Avignon and Las Meninas.
Afterwards you walk into the permanent collection where it goes in chronological order from his youth. I thought there should have been more cubist and rose period peices. Everything was very well presented though, with one or more rooms devoted to each phase.

The only bad thing about coming here is going out to eat after the museum. Every place around there is very touristy and not authentic at all. Frozen and reheated.

Go on the first Sunday of the month! It's free then - and even if you can't schedule your trip around it, it's definitely worth the admission price. The museums surrounding it are also free at that time. It might get crowded, but the lines move quickly.

The museum captures the evolution of Picasso's work. While we did not go on any sort of guided tour, the layout of the museum makes it so that you are led chronologically through the various stages of his work.

I love how this one museum dedicated to one man could seem like a museum of multiple artists. Definitely worth seeing if you are interested in Picasso!

Picasso Museum is one of the best museum I have ever seen: intersting, beutiful and perfect to learn the development of his artistic life.
I go there eveytime I visit Barcellona.

Il museo Picasso è uno dei più bei musei che abbia mai visitato: interessante e ben strutturato, permette di percorrere la vita di Picasso ed il suo sviluppo artistico attraverso le sue bellissime opere.
Lo consiglio a chiunque visiti Barcellona.

I think one of the best things about this museum is that you get to see a lot of Picasso's early works. Before coming here, I only knew of Picasso's abstract cubist works. It was really interesting seeing some of his early, more traditional sketches and paintings, and realize he wasn't completely crazy after all.

The Museu Picasso was an enjoyable experience - I highly recommending visiting it. I appreciated the display of a number of his earlier works, which reveal the progression of his art. The Meninas collection was also quite intriguing - the manner in which he dissects and reassembles the work of Velazquez is worth seeing if you're an art fan.