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Bullfight Museum
Location: "Plaza de Toros Monumental "
Opening hours: open daily 10.30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. during the bullfighting epoch, days of a "corrida" 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Displays dresses of famous toreros, historical documents and other objects from the world of bullfighting, all to spice up your interest in the industry.
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Museum of Music
Location: "Av. Diagonal, 373"
Opening hours: open daily 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday and Wednesday 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Music only gets better with time, especially here where historical instruments, partitures, and other items of great musicians will tug at your remembrance of days gone by.
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Museum of Shoes
Location: " Pla de Sant Felip Neri "
Opening hours: open daily except Monday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Here you ll see only the weirdest and the grandest of footwear that man s feet have ever stepped on.
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Military Museum
Location: " Castillo de Montju "
Opening hours: open Tuesday to Sunday 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 and 3.30 to 7.30 p.m.
Salute your way into this great collection of historical arms and documents and know that war has its own keepsakes.
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Museum of the Soccer Club of Barcelona
Location: "Av. Arístides Maillol"
Opening hours: November to March: Tuesday to Friday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m.
For the die-hard soccer fans, you ve got heaven in the walls and corners, right here in this museum.
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Fundació Miró
Location: Montju
COST: EUR5
Opening hours: Tues - Wed. and Fri.-Sat. 10 - 7, Thurs. 10 - 9:30, Sun. 10 - 2:30.
Address: Parc de Montju s/n, 08038 Barcelona , Spain.
Phone: 934 439 470
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Visit it to see why its one of the most frequented places in Barcelona . The Miró Foundation was a gift from the artist Joan Miró to his native city and is one of Barcelona 's most exciting showcases of contemporary art. In here, Miró's unmistakably playful and colorful style, filled with light and humor, seems a perfect match for its surroundings. The airy, white building was designed by Josep Lluís Sert and opened in 1975. Miró himself rests in the cemetery on Montju southern slopes. When he died in 1983, the Catalans gave him a send-off that was at par with a state funeral. Look for Alexander Calder 's mercury fountain amongst his works.
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Gaudí Casa - Museu
Location: La Rambla and the Raval
COST: EUR3.
Opening hours: May-Sept. daily 10 - 8; Oct.-Feb. daily 10 - 6; Mar.-Apr. daily 10 - 7pm.
Address: Parc G (up hill to right of main entrance), Barcelona , Spain.
Phone: 93 / 219 38 11
Pink has always been a color that attracts attention. Gaudí lived with his niece from 1906 to 1926 in this pink, Alice-in-Wonderland house, which is today a house museum. Exhibits include Gaudí-designed décor, furniture, drawings, portraits and busts of the architect.
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Museu Picasso
Location: Sant Pere, La Ribera, La Ciutadella and Barceloneta
COST: EUR4.50
Opening hours: free 1st Sun. of month. Tues.-Sat. 10 - 8, Sun. 10 - 3pm.
Address: Carrer Montcada 15-19, Barcelona , Spain.
Phone: 93 / 319 63 10
The Museu Picasso is Barcelona 's most visited museum. The Picasso Museum is across Via Laietana, down Carrer de la Princesa, and right on Carrer Montcada - a street known for Barcelona 's most graceful medieval palaces. It's housed in three strikingly picturesque stone mansions on the Carrer de Montcada , which was, in medieval times, an approach to the port. Picasso spent a number of his formative years (1901-06) in Barcelona , and this collection, while not one of the world's best, is particularly strong on his early work. The museum displays various works that trace the artist's early years, and is especially keen on his Blue Period with canvases like The Defenceless , ceramics, plus his early works from the 1890s. Displays include childhood sketches, pictures from the beautiful Rose and Blue periods, and the famous 1950s Cubist variations on Velázquez 's Ladies in Waiting or Las Meninas.
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The second floor features works from Barcelona and Paris from 1900 - 1904, with many of his impressionist-influenced works. The haunting portrait of Senyora Canals (1905), from his Pink Period is also on display. The later works, all executed in Cannes in 1957, consist mostly of studies on Diego Velazquez ' masterpiece.
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