Picasso Museum Malaga
Picasso's work in his birth city, housed in the sixteenth-century Buenavista Palace.
The museum opened in October 2003 in the Buenavista Palace, a sixteenth-century house in Malaga's old town combining Renaissance proportions with Mudejar timber ceilings. Its creation followed decades of discussion about bringing Picasso's work to the city of his birth, and it was made possible by donations and loans from Christine Ruiz-Picasso and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, the artist's daughter-in-law and grandson. The conversion by the New York architect Richard Gluckman with Isabel Camara and Rafael Martin Delgado added new galleries behind the historic shell.
The permanent collection covers more than 200 works spanning some eight decades, from early academic studies to the late paintings of the 1970s, and includes painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics and printmaking. Excavations during construction uncovered Phoenician, Roman and Islamic remains, now displayed in the basement. The museum also runs a programme of temporary exhibitions that place Picasso alongside other modern artists, together with concerts, film screenings and education workshops.
Highlights
- Renaissance Buenavista Palace with Mudejar coffered ceilings
- Over 200 Picasso works covering eight decades of his career
- Phoenician, Roman and Islamic remains in the basement
- Courtyard and garden at the centre of the historic house
