What to do and see in Montjuic, Catalonia: The Best Museums

Galeria Carles Taché, founded and directed since 1986 by Carles Taché (Barcelona, 1947) is located in carrer Mèxic (Montjuic) in Barcelona's museum center. The gallery is member of the Art Barcelona Association (with Carles Taché as president for eight years). On an international scale, it has participated in the most important contemporary art fairs such as: FIAC (Paris), Art Cologne, Chicago Art Fair, ARCO (Madrid), Art Brussels, MACO (México), KIAF (Corea) or ShContemporary (Shanghai), amongst others. The gallery also regularly collaborates with other galleries, institutions, foundations and both national and international museums. Art editions have also been accomplished during the lifetime of the gallery, that is deeply commited to it. Since its opening, the gallery has been distinguished with several awards such as the 1987 and 2000 ACCA awards by the Art Critics Association, the 1990 City of Barcelona Award, the Freedom Award of the International Center for Peace in Sarajevo in 1995 and, more recently, the GAC Award at the gallery for its trajectory in 2013. Carles Taché has been member of the Committee of ARCO (Madrid's International Contemporary Art Fair) from 1991 to 1993, and on the 2000 and 2001 editions. He has also been founding member of Barcelona Art Society (of which he is also chairman) and member of the Trust Board of the Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona since its creation in 1984 to 1996. In 2004 he joined the Citizen Barcelona Senate created to support the Universal Forum of Cultures as well as Barcelona`s candidacy as European Capital of Culture. Carles Taché has been invited professor in the Cultural Management master seminars of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and in the postgraduate courses of the Universitat de Girona. Currently he collaborates with the Universitat de Barcelona leading a project of some students at the Master in Advanced Studies in Art History.

The Fundació Joan Miró was created by Miró himself, at first principally with works from his own private collection, with a desire to set up an internationally recognised centre in Barcelona for Miró scholarship and contemporary art research, and to disseminate the collection. The Fundació opened to the public on 10 June 1975 and has since become a dynamic centre in which Joan Miró's work coexists with cutting-edge contemporary art. With an interdisciplinary approach, the Fundació organises temporary exhibitions of 20th and 21st century artists as well as academic activities and projects in collaboration with other institutions and organisations. Through its exhibition and educational programmes, the Fundació Joan Miró explores lines of research linked to the work of Miró and to contemporary art. The Fundació is located in a building designed by Josep Lluís Sert, making it one of the few museums anywhere in the world in which the complicity between artist and architect underpins the dialogue between the works and the space that houses them. The Fundació offers an overview of the landscapes of Joan Miró's art and life, creating an enriching dialogue with other artists from the 20th and 21st centuries.

An art museum containing hundreds of pieces from the medieval age to the 19th century.