The Picasso Museum has a collection of over 3,500 works of the painter from Malaga, which makes it the world's most comprehensive works of Picasso's youth. Located in Montcada street of Barcelona. Opened its doors to the public for the first time on March 9, 1963.

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The museum was born from the idea of James Sabartés, a personal friend of Pablo Picasso and secretary since 1935. Sabartés donated to the city his collection of Picasso's works, the first ones that had the museum. In 1968, the death Sabartés, Picasso himself gave the gallery a series of 58 paintings on Las Meninas and the portrait he had done to James Sabartés in 1901. In addition, pledged to donate more works for the exhibition.
In 1970 the artist made a second donation consisting of more than 920 works of different styles and techniques. Donations followed, and the museum grew in importance. In 1982 his widow was presented to the museum for more than forty pieces of pottery. The following year, the heirs made donations of 117 prints. The collection has been supplemented with various donations from both individuals and various art galleries.
Most of the paintings exhibited in the museum will cover the period between 1890 and 1917. Outstanding works such as Science and Charity, 1897, or Harlequin, 1917. In the time after the artist's Blue Period, the museum has very few works. The most striking is the series Las Meninas, painted in 1957.
The collection of engravings and lithographs basically comprises the period between 1962 and 1982. Picasso himself gave the museum a copy of each of his works produced after the death of Sabartés in 1968. Also included are some of the illustrations from Malaga made for various editions of books. The museum exhibit is complete with pottery, donated by Jacqueline Picasso, the artist's widow.

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The buildings that house the collection of works by Picasso also have their own history. Aguilar Palace, which opened the museum is a building built in the thirteenth century. Berenguer Aguilar belonged to who took the name. Subsequently, owners were several members of the Catalan bourgeoisie until the building was purchased by the city of Barcelona in 1953. Inside the palace they found remains of thirteenth-century paintings currently on display at the National Art Museum of Catalonia.
The expansion of the collection, the museum also had to expand, using various outbuildings, all built in the thirteenth century. The museum occupies a total of six buildings covering an area of 10,628 m².