,url-https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tripexpert.com%2Fimages%2Fmarker-fade%402x.png(2.153715,41.368454)/2.15672068297863,41.36848689066835,16.618934455997735/1280x214@2x?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoidHJpcGV4cGVydHdlYiIsImEiOiJja2Fud3l2MDcwbXZ0MndyeGF3eGI3ZWhzIn0.zLqNa1RECyZZadF8zfQM5w)
Joan Miro Foundation vs Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
Both are rated very highly by professional reviewers writing for major publications. On balance, Joan Miró Foundation scores slightly higher than Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC. Joan Miró Foundation ranks #2 in Barcelona with endorsements from 9 publications including Lonely Planet, On the Grid and Time Out.
Joan Miro Foundation
Fodor's
Concierge
Frommer's
Lonely Planet
Travel + Leisure
Show All Reviews
Parc de Montjuic, 08038 Barcelona
From $0 /night
Fodor's
"The Miró Foundation, a gift from the artist Joan Miró to his native city, is one of Barcelona's most exciting showcases of contemporary art."
Full review
Concierge
"After an illustrious career in Le Corbusier's Paris studio and then as Harvard's dean of architecture, Josep Lluís Sert designed the Joan Miró museum in memory of his lifelong friend."
Frommer's
"Born in Mallorca in 1893, Joan Miró was one of Spain's greatest artists and, along with Tàpies, the undisputed master of contemporary Catalan art."
Full review
Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Joan Miró, the city’s best-known 20th-century artistic progeny, bequeathed this art foundation to his hometown in 1971."
Full review
Travel + Leisure
"With its high ceilings, arches, and airy passages, this innovative building houses the world's largest collection of Miró's work plus British art, from 1945 to 1968-that is, postwar to Pop."
Full review
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
Fodor's
Concierge
Travel + Leisure
Frommer's
Condé Nast Traveler
Show All Reviews
Parc de Montjuic, Palau Nacional, 08038 Barcelona
From $0 /night
Fodor's
"Housed in the imposingly domed, towered, frescoed, and columned Palau Nacional... this superb museum was renovated in 1995 by Gae Aulenti."
Full review
Concierge
"Covering 1,000 years of Catalan art, this fully modernized museum on Montjuïc was carved out of the Palau Nacional for the 1929 International Exposition."
Travel + Leisure
"Journey up to the Parc de Monjuïc to see the work of Picasso's Barcelona contemporaries at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya."
Full review
Frommer's
"Although its mammoth collection also covers the Gothic period and the 19th and 20th centuries, the MNAC is perhaps the most important center for Romanesque art in the world."
Full review
Condé Nast Traveler
"An extensive collection of Catalan art, from Modernista sculptures to paintings by Dalí... also has large holdings of European Renaissance paintings."
Full review
