Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
Catalonia's national art museum, housed in the domed Palau Nacional above Montjuïc — the world's finest collection of Romanesque church murals under one roof.
Fundació Joan Miró
The world's largest collection of Joan Miró's work, in a bright white Modernist building on Montjuïc that the artist himself helped design as a gift to his home city.
Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Barcelona's leading contemporary art foundation, in a restored 19th-century publishing house crowned by Tàpies's own tangled wire sculpture on the roof.
CaixaForum Barcelona
A former textile factory turned major cultural centre at the foot of Montjuïc, with rotating world-class art and photography exhibitions.
CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)
A former 18th-century charity hospice reborn as a contemporary culture centre, its glass-walled courtyard framing city views alongside urbanism and photography exhibitions.
MACBA (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art)
A stark white Richard Meier building in the Raval, ringed by skateboarders, holding Spain's leading collection of post-1945 contemporary art.