The new Science Museum of the “La Caixa” Foundation rises in an emblematic location, by the Collserola Mountain, and right beside the
Ronda de Dalt.

It occupies an area of 47,100 m², 30,000 of which dedicated to the contents for the public.
 

Located in an ancient factory of Montjuïc, a work by the modernist Catalan architect Puig i Cadafalch, it is a huge cultural centre of the "La Caixa" Foundation, with 3,000 square mts. Caixaforum is divided into three spaces, a mediateca and two polivalent saloons.

Here one can find one of the largest contemporary art collections of Spain, with over 800 works by national and foreign artists. The lead area is permanent and occasionally exhibitions of modern and contemporary art as well as the last trends in plastic arts and photography are held. A state of art auditorium for 350 spectators is used for different purposes from cinema to concerts.
 

Former home of the architectural genius Antoni Gaudí.
 

Its location is very convenient (central). It opened in '94 with the aim of renewing the rundown district of Raval. For this reason the centre is dedicated to the theme of the cities, owing to the preocupation of the City Hall towards the urban and social problems. The concept is all about the relationship of man with the environment and culture and between the latter with the new technologies.

It is the largest Spanish cultural centre with 15,000 square meters and exhibits very deversified works from the audiovisual experiments to literature.

There'es a cafe-restaurant and a documentation centre.

Born from the hands of the catalan painter Antoni Tàpies with the intent of developing the modern art in the city, the Fundation, which carries the name of this artist, who opened this museum 1900 together with the library, the organizes contmporary and modern art exhibitions, besides the permanent exhibition of Tàpies's works.

Further to these activities, it is luckily located in a symbolic building of the urban renewal of the Barcelona of the ends of the 19th Century, a work by the modernist Doménech i Muntaner.
 

The Fundation was born in the year '75 by the hand of the famous painter, who with this initiative dedicates to his hometown a local for the expression of the most modern trends of the contemporary art.

The Fundation together with the Centre of the Contemporary Art Studies organizes exhibitions of great artists of the 20th Century.

Besides the permannt exhibition of Miró, the centre occasionally shows works of famous contemporary artists such as Warhol, Giacometti or Magritte.

There's a shop, a book shop and a bar-restaurant.
 

This Cultural Centre is locted in one of the most important architectural works of the city, the Milà House, better known as La Pedrera.
It's divided in two spaces: Gaudí Space, a museums about the career of this architect and his innovative techniques and a space which shows temporary exhibitions, and where ever since '92, there have been over 20 exhibitions of artists of the like of Dalí, Dürer or Clavé.
 

Open since '95, the building is a work by the architect Richard Meier and is part of a rundown ditrict of Raval in a plan of a renewal of the area.

The art collection is mainly from the second half of the 20th Century, but the centre offers deversified contemporaryart exhibitions.
Furthermore there are often lectures and workshops for young students.
 

Art Collections of Catalonia from the Roman period through the Gothic, Barroque until the 40's of the 20th Century.

Photographic collection of all tendencies and a numismatic cabinet.
There's a bookshop with guides, catalogues and reproductions of works art, postcards, videos and souvenirs. A restaurant-cafeteria is of great help to the visitor interested in spending the whole day in the museum.