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Palace of Catalan Music vs Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
Palace of Catalan Music and Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC are both rated highly by professional reviewers. Overall, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC is preferred by most reviewers compared to Palace of Catalan Music. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC scores 94 with accolades from 12 publications including Fodor's, Travel + Leisure and The Telegraph.
Palace of Catalan Music
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Palau de la Musica 4-6, 08002 Barcelona
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"One of the world's most extraordinary music halls, with facades that are a riot of color and form, the Music Palace is a landmark."
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Concierge
"Architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner's masterpiece, the Palau de la Música, was built between 1905 and 1908 in El Born."
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"The Palau de la Música is, for many, the most outstanding contribution of the modernist movement."
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"This concert hall is a high point of Barcelona’s Modernista architecture. It’s not exactly a symphony, but more a series of crescendos in tile, brick, sculpted stone and stained glass."
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Time Out
"Commissioned by the nationalistic Orfeó Català choral society, this jawdropping concert hall was intended as a paean to the Catalan renaixença."
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Be sure to ask questions: the guides are very knowledgeable, but unless prompted, they tend to concentrate mainly on the triumphs of the renovation.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
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Parc de Montjuic, Palau Nacional, 08038 Barcelona
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"Housed in the imposingly domed, towered, frescoed, and columned Palau Nacional... this superb museum was renovated in 1995 by Gae Aulenti."
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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."
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"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."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"An extensive collection of Catalan art, from Modernista sculptures to paintings by Dalí... also has large holdings of European Renaissance paintings."
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