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Museu Picasso vs Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
Both Picasso Museum and Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC are rated very highly by expert writers. Overall, Picasso Museum scores slightly better than Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC. Picasso Museum is ranked #1 in Barcelona with approval from 12 sources including Michelin Guide, Fodor's and The Telegraph.
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Montcada 15-23, 08003 Barcelona
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Fodor's
"The Picasso Museum is housed in five adjoining palaces on Carrer Montcada, a street known for Barcelona's most elegant medieval palaces."
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Frommer's
"Five medieval mansions in a row contain a massive collection of the work of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)."
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Lonely Planet
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"The setting alone, in five contiguous medieval stone mansions, makes the Museu Picasso unique (and worth the probable queues)."
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Travel + Leisure
"There can be a long wait to get in, but it's worth it, if only to see the extensive collection of portraits by the artist when he was a young man."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"Especially good on the artist's early work—Picasso spent his formative teenage years in Barcelona and donated the paintings."
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Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
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Parc de Montjuic, Palau Nacional, 08038 Barcelona
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Fodor's
"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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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."
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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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