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Museu Picasso vs Palace of Catalan Music
Both are praised by experts. Overall, Picasso Museum scores significantly higher than Palace of Catalan Music. Picasso Museum scores 97 with approval from 12 reviewers such as Travel + Leisure, Let's Go and Time Out.
Museu Picasso
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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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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."
Frommer's
"The Palau de la Música is, for many, the most outstanding contribution of the modernist movement."
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Lonely Planet
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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.
