{"id":10804,"date":"2025-09-05T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:02:19","slug":"museo-nacional-de-arte-de-cataluna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/types\/architecture\/national-art-museum-of-catalonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalu\u00f1a, Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

El Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalu\u00f1a<\/strong> (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, MNAC) occupies the Palau Nacional, the monumental palace built on Montju\u00efc hill for the 1929 International Exhibition, high above Pla\u00e7a d’Espanya. It holds one of the world’s finest collections of Romanesque art, with murals rescued from village churches in the Pyrenees, as well as Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque painting, Catalan modernisme (including furniture by Antoni Gaud\u00ed), photography, coins and drawings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00 (May to September until 20:00) and on Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 15:00; it is closed on Mondays. General admission costs \u20ac12 and includes the temporary exhibitions and the rooftop viewpoint, valid on two days within a month. Under-16s enter free, and admission is free for everyone on Saturdays from 15:00 and on the first Sunday of the month (online booking required).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the terraces in front of the palace there is a famous view over Pla\u00e7a d’Espanya and the city. Below the museum, the Magic Fountain of Montju\u00efc puts on light and music shows on certain evenings (check the current schedule), and the Poble Espanyol open-air museum of Spanish architecture is a short walk away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El museo desempe\u00f1a un papel importante en la conservaci\u00f3n y el estudio del patrimonio cultural catal\u00e1n. Tambi\u00e9n es un centro de investigaci\u00f3n y educaci\u00f3n que organiza exposiciones temporales, programas acad\u00e9micos y colaboraciones con instituciones internacionales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Panor\u00e1mica de la plaza de Espa\u00f1a desde el Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalu\u00f1a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Vista<\/a>
Vista desde la Fuente M\u00e1gica de Montju\u00efc hacia el Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalu\u00f1a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catalonia’s national art museum in the Palau Nacional on Montju\u00efc, famous for its Romanesque murals and the view over Pla\u00e7a d’Espanya.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,187,1031,976,961],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-barcelona","category-catalonia","category-museums","category-spain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16739,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions\/16739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}