Tailor-made School Trips to Barcelona

The Picasso museum is located in the quarter El Born and was founded after Jaime Sabates, the former secretary and friend of Picasso, devoted a large collection of works to the city. For this purpose the Palacio de Berenguer d’Aguilar, an old city palace from the 15th century, was converted into a museum to house the collection.

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona reveals the genius of the young artist through more than 3,500 works that make up the permanent collection. The museum also reveals his relationship with Barcelona an intimate, solid relationship that was shaped in his adolescence and youth, continuing even after his death. This is a fantastic opportunity to see Picasso’s younger works of art and his early influences.

The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art is situated in the Placa dels Angel’s area. In 1959, art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer formed a group of contemporary artists showing work in a series of 23 exhibitions, with the hopes of beginning a collection for a new contemporary art museum in Barcelona.

In 1986, the Barcelona City Council recommended the American architect Richard Meier Partners to design the museum. The permanent collection of around 5,000 works dates from the mid-20 th century onward. The three periods of modern art represented are the forties to the sixties, the sixties and seventies and the last are contemporary. The collections focus on post 1945 Catalan and Spanish art, and the museum also stages seasonal exhibitions, which can be viewed on the museums website.

This is a great experience for students to observe contemporary artwork in a beautiful building with stunning views from Barcelona through the glass panels.

The Dali Theatre and Museum is a museum of the artist Salvador Dali in his hometown of Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain. Salvador Dali is buried there in a crypt below the stage. The man himself said ‘I want my museum to be a single block, a labyrinth, a great surrealist object. It will be a totally theatrical museum. The people who come to see it will leave with the sensation of having had a theatrical dream.’

The heart of the museum is the building that housed the town’s theatre when Dali was a child. The museum displays the single largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dali, the core of which is the artist’s personal collection. It contains the broadest range of works spanning the artistic career from 1980-1989. In addition to Dali paintings from all decades of his career, there is Dali sculptures, 3-dimensional collages, mechanical devices and other curiosities from Dali’s imagination.

Figueres is situated around 75 miles from Barcelona.

This new exhibition enables students to delve into Gaudi’s creative universe. The Gaudi experiences allows students to take an interactive and 4D journey of the Modernist Architecture at the G Experiència, and discover what lies behind Antoni Gaudi’s innovative architectural language.

This new cultural tourist attraction offers a different and unique way to know Gaudi and his numerous works through state of the art audiovisual technology. There is a 4D-seated presentation of his life with surround sound, stereoscopic vision and moving seats with special effects. This is the first centre dedicated solely to presenting Gaudi’s life and works.