Museo Picasso Málaga
Palacio de Buenavista. C/ San Agustín, 8
29015 Málaga, Spain
The Picasso Museum is located in the historic center of Malaga. Entrance fee for the permanent collection is 6 euro. The temporary exhibitions cost 4,5 euro, but best is to combine all for only 8 euro.
After leaving behind your bags in the locker at the entrance, numerous coworkers of the museum wearing black uniforms tell you where to go in order to follow the correct way through the museum. Tall dark heavy doors seperate the different halls. Walls are white and the general architecture is clean and sober.
Twelve gallery halls show a variety of Picasso's art. The works aren't really ordened chronologically, which is a pitty, but they're ... well, they're not ordened. Anyway, alongside some dull sketches and strange sculptures, the museum does host some true top works like 'Mother and Child' (1921-1922), 'Still Life with Guitar on a Circular Table' (1922), 'Woman with Raised Arms' (1936), 'Bather' (1971) and so on. Unfortunately, there are no works of Picasso's blue period in the museum.
Another highly valuable temporary exhibition was 'The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York'. It showed works collected by Henri Matisse's son: Pierre Matisse. It hosted works from father Matisse, Chagall, Miro, Delvaux, Magritte, ... and some works were really marvelous. As a Belgian ofcourse, my favorite was 'The Eternally Obvious' (1948) by René Magritte.
In the cellar, the museum shows parts of walls, all dug up in the Malaga area. Walls built by Punics, Romans, Arabs, Moorish and Catholic peoples who once conquered southern Spain. Or in other words, walls from the 6th century BC till the 15th century AC.
If you're in the neighbourhood I suggest you visit the museum, especially if the temporary exhibitions draw your attention.
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