The 10 Best Museums in Sant Martí, Catalonia

Guides visit to attelier and studies of plastic artists and graffity walls in the stret.

The Filippo ioco Studio & Gallery was established by International Bodypainter and Fine Artist Filippo ioco in 2017. It holds a permanent and rotating gallery of bodypainting works, making it the first gallery dedicated to the art of bodypainting in Spain and Europe, becoming a connection point for the international body art community in Spain with collaborative projects and events.

Can Framis is the latest Fundació Vila Casas museum. Opened in April 2009 in Barcelona, it has around 300 works on show dating from the 1960’s onwards by a wide range of artists born or living in Catalonia. Temporary exhibitions are held at the Can Framis Espai A0. Can Framis, a factory built at the end of the 18th century, was originally owned by the Framis family. Over the years it fell into disuse, becoming a monument to the industry of the area. Today, as a Museum of Contemporary Painting, it is an ideal place for the contemplation of art located in Poble Nou, now converted into the technological district of Barcelona and renamed 22@. The conversion of the building was undertaken by the BAAS architectural practice.

"En construccio" is a space located in the center of Poblenou, Barcelona, in which live a design and contemporary handmade jewelry and a space for temporary exhibitions of different specialties (ceramics, photography, jewelry, sculpture, textiles ...) Workshop i creative artists here and now.

El Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona) está situado en el parque del Fórum. Fue construido por los arquitectos Herzog & de Meuron en el año 2004. Cerca del mar y del río Besòs, se ha convertido desde marzo de 2011 en un equipamiento abierto y dinámico, representativo y útil en el contexto de la problemática medioambiental actual. Ocupa 9.000 metros cuadrados distribuidos en dos plantas, con instalaciones y servicios modernos para todos los públicos que se estructuran en torno a un inmenso vestíbulo de libre acceso que es el punto de partida y llegada de todos los programas y servicios del Museo: la exposición permanente «Planeta Vida», los espacios para exposiciones temporales, la Mediateca, el Nido de ciencia para niños de 0-6 años, las aulas, la sala de actos, los talleres y la tienda.

The Design Museum of Barcelona is the city’s design and arts of the object museum. The Museum has four permanent exhibitions displaying collections related to product design, fashion design, graphic design, decorative arts, textile and clothing arts, and graphic arts. The museum offers four permanent exhibitions with objects which range in date from the fourth century AD to the present. It also hosts temporary exhibitions and activities that offer a critical reflection on what design's real contribution to 21st-century society should be. Services: Group visits / education department / family workshops / documentation centre and library .

This is the MUHBA Workshops space, in which the history of the city enters into a dialogue with thoughts and ideas about the urban habitat and the Barcelona of the 21st century.