Museu Picasso’s Knowledge and Research Centre

With the smell of fresh paint in the air and the future library’s shelves still empty, the Museu Picasso has presented its Knowledge and Research Centre, a new building located just next to the medieval mansions that have, until now, housed the museum’s activities.

Picasso Museum Barcelona

The building, which received funding to the tune of €6.7 million, will open soon but gradually, with school activities the first to move there and then the library and archives, which will be on the second floor.

The first floor of the centre, designed by the architect Jordi Garcés, will have a series of four multipurpose spaces intended for workshops, talks, seminars and master’s-degree courses. The basement will have facilities and storage spaces for non-artistic objects, among other things.

Thanks to the new building the Museu Picasso will now have 13.000 square metres at its disposal. The plan is to re-organise the spaces freed up with the launch of the new centre.

In addition, the museum will gain a new entrance on Plaça de Jaume Sabartés, though the ticket offices will not be moved from their current location for the time being. This will help to reduce crowding on Carrer de Montcada.

Location -> c/ Montcada 15-23

Otrascosas Gallery by Villarrosàs

The Otrascosas gallery, which belongs to the advertising agency Villarrosàs, offers Barcelona residents somewhere to enjoy all kinds of ideas. You must have passed by there loads of times: Via Laietana, 64. One of the floors of this building, Otrascosas, a gallery that accommodates every kind of artistic manifestation.

So far, during the two months and a bit it has been open to the public, Otrascosas has held concerts – like the one given by the Swedish band Billie The Vision & The Dancers – various screenings and an exhibition entitled Trochut + Apparatu Vol.1, which is on at the gallery until 16 December.

The aim, according to Marc Morro, who is in charge of Otrascosas, is to ‘run a weekly programme of talks, documentary screenings, concerts, theatre or whatever’. In other words, as he said himself: ‘That something happens every week.’

They happen and will happen because Otrascosas plans to revolutionise your Christmas festivities. From 17 December you will find an exhibition-market where you will be able to see and buy, at affordable prices, clothes produced by young designers.

At the same time, another part of the gallery will be dominated by a very special Christmas tree, made out of TV sets which will be showing different takes on Christmas.

The common feature of all of them is they have been recorded by all sorts of people using a digital camera which records with a texture similar to Super 8.

Otrascosas Gallery by Villarrosàs

Via Laietana nº64, Principal – www.otrascosasdevillarrosas.com
Mondays to Fridays: 10.00-14.00h / 16.00-19.30h* *except openings