Barcelona,  Culture

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, a building with history

The Fundació Antoni Tàpies is a cultural centre and museum located in the center of Barcelona which contains one of the most complete collections of the work of the famous Catalan artist.

It is located in a modernist building designed by the renowned Catalan architect Lluis Domenech Montaner. The center opened in 1990 at the headquarters of the ancient Editorial Montaner i Simon. The building was restored into exhibition rooms where to present the work of Antoni Tàpies. Recently, in 2010 the reform carried out by Ábalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos was inaugurated. The project has adapted the building to current standards of accessibility and has regained its original industrial character.

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From our Hotel Continental Barcelona and Hotel Continental Palacete you can access to the museum through a nice walk along Rambla Catalunya to Aragó street 255 where Antoni Tàpies foundation is.

To know which are the current exhibitions you can access the official website of the foundation: http://www.fundaciotapies.org/

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