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probably depends on how keen you are to see models of Gaudí buildings or religious icons
sculptedfromchocolate.Nonetheless,there'saglitteringcounterofchocstobuy,whileatthe
adjacent Escola de Pastisseria, glass windows allow you to look onto the students learning
their craft in the kitchens. There are also chocolate workshops, tastings and children's days
organized on a regular basis - enquire at the museum.
Museu Picasso
C/de Montcada 15-23 • Tues-Sun & hols 10am-8pm • €10, exhibitions €6, under-16s free, plus Sun after 3pm
& first Sun of month free • Free guided tours in English (Sun 11am, except August); advance bookings essen-
tial, by phone or by email through the website • 932 563 000,
www.museupicasso.bcn.cat
• Jaume I
The celebrated
Museu Picasso
is one of the most important collections of Picasso's work in
the world, but even so some visitors are disappointed since the museum contains none of his
best-known pictures, and few in the Cubist style. But there are almost four thousand works
in the permanent collection - housed in five adjoining medieval palaces - which provide a
fascinating opportunity to trace Picasso's development from his early paintings as a young
boy to the major works of later years. It might often seem as if every visitor to Barcelona is
tryingtogetintotheplaceatthesametime,butyoucanhardlycometothecityandnotmake
the effort. Arriving when it opens is a good way to beat the worst of the crowds. A
café
with
a
terrassa
in one of the palace courtyards offers refreshments, and there is of course a
shop
,
stuffed full of Picasso-related gifts.
