The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) is located in the Palau Nacional of Montjuïc, which was built for the International Exposition of 1929. During your visit to the museum you’ll have the opportunity to see the works of artists of Catalan Modernism, including Gaudí and Casas. Admire masterpieces by great European Renaissance and Baroque painters, such as Tiziano and Velázquez. See the museum’s collection of photography as well. The collections are displayed on 2 floors and you should plan on spending a couple of hours at the museum to ensure that you have time to see it all. In addition to exploring the collections, you’ll have a chance to learn about the history of the building. Afterward, you can head up to the rooftop, which is the perfect spot for enjoying panoramic views of the city. Current Temporary Exhibition: Turner. Light is Colour For the English Romantic painter, watercolorist and printmaker Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) the elements of nature are abstract forces, with their own symbolism and meaning. This exhibition explores his fascination with meteorological and atmospheric phenomena, from the beginning of his work, in the 1790s, to the late 1840s.

Current Temporary Exhibition: Annibale Carracci. The Frescoes of the Herrera Chapel

More than two hundred years ago, the frescoes that adorned the walls of Rome’s Herrera chapel, painted by Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) and his studio, were torn down and never seen together again, until now.

The murals are currently distributed among the Museu Nacional and the Museo Nacional del Prado, and the altar painting is kept at the church of Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli in Rome.

Thanks to a collaboration between the three institutions, this spectacular pictorial ensemble is being presented for the first time; Carracci’s final, and least known, artistic creation.