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Contemporary Art Museum situated amongst the old and narrow streets of Barcelona. Displays mostly Catalonian and Spanish art from three time periods- the first one from the forties to the sixties; the second spans the sixties and seventies; the third period is contemporary.
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Attractions Near Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Cathedral of Barcelona
0.78km from Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Gothic cathedral with large sculpture heavy hall, and gargoyles on its roof featuring mythical animals.
Maritime Museum Barcelona
1.16km from Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Dedicated to shipbuilding between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. It shows the history of the navigation from the early days together with the history of the Spanish Navy since the Catholic Monarchs, in the 15th century, up to the present. It also hosts several navigation instruments, weapons, portolans and paintings
La Sagrada Familia
2.36km from Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
The hundred-plus years old masterpiece of Antoni Gaudí that is still under construction. Towering over the city of Barcelona, one of the most artistic buildings in the world.
Park Güell
3.68km from Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
A large park created by the renowned architect Antoni Gaudí. Sculptures, mosaic-covered terraces and steps, and many other stunning works from Gaudi can be seen here. It also has great views of Barcelona city.
Montserrat
36.24km from Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
A multi-peaked mountain range near Barcelona. Montserrat" literally means "saw mountain" in Catalan, due to the multitude of rock formations that looks like a handsaw from a distance. At the top of the mountain, there are various abandoned hovels in the cliff faces that were previously the abodes of reclusive monks.
Ligne de Cerdagne
124.65km from Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
The line of Villefranche - Vernet-Les-Bains in Latour-de-Carol, sometimes dubbed line Cerdanya, is a line of railroad to route metric long 62.5 km, which, in the department of Pyrenees -Orientales, connects Villefranche - Vernet-Les-Bains station to that of Latour-de-Carol - Enveitg via Font-Romeu following the Têt valley then crossing the Cerdagne plateau.
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Art museum with a nice architecture. It's located among some of the oldest and narrowest streets of Barcelona.
There are three periods of modern art represented here- forties to sixties, sixties and seventies and then contemporary. Mostly consists of Catalan and Spanish art although there are few international artists are also represented.
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