Art and Myth: the Great Aztec Temple Tenochtitlan and its meanings

The Barbier-Mueller Pre-Columbian Art Museum of Barcelona and the University Institute of Culture of the Pompeu Fabra University are organising for the fourth consecutive year the conference Art and Myth, that on this occasion reflects on the Aztec culture and the latest archaeological finds in Mexico.

Do you want to become a Mayan writer?

Come and discover the hieroglyphic symbols that are hidden in the pieces of the museum and create your own pottery following an ancient Pre-Columbian technique.

II Conference of art and collecting. The art or memory of Africa

Reflection about the role of art as an object of memory in the oral African arts and the function of the museum as a place for conserving traditional knowledge.

Come and celebrate the Day of the Dead at the museum!

The Barbier-Mueller PreColumbian Art Museum of Barcelona presents for the third year in a row its Altar of Dead as a way of sharing the debauchery of creativity: flowers, candles, incense, sugar skulls, music and food, which characterise the Mexican festivity of the Day of the Dead.

The "Altars of Deaths": a PreColumbian tradition

On the occasion of the installation of the Altar of the Dead in the museum, a cycle of three talks will take us into the world of this PreColumbian tradition that has lasted until the current day:

Discover what Columbus didn't discover

Capgrossos! workshop for constructing a PreColumbian 'giant head'

On the occasion of the festivities of La Mercè, kids will use their imagination and creativity to construct giant heads, based on some of the pieces from the current PreColumbian Master Works.

Land ahoy!

The sailor Rodrigo de Triana sighted land from Pinta, the sailing ship The smallest and lightest of the whole of the Columbian expedition. And from that moment on a whole marvellous universe appeared before his eyes. But, how were the Spanish seen by the men and women who inhabited the new world? This is the reason for this year’s workshop, to imagine this visual meeting by means of a comic strip.

XII Anniversary of the museum

The Museum celebrates its XII anniversary with an open doors week. Come and celebrate it with us!

LOOP Festival at the museum

One more year, the museum collaborates with the LOOP Festival of video art with the nonstop short film projection Fenix by Fernanda Romandía (Mexico, DF, 1973), that depicts the creative process of Gabriel Orozco, as he works on Matrix móvil, a 12-meter, 1.2-ton sculpture made from a whale’s skeleton.

The latest about Portraits

What is behind a portrait and what is real? Who interprets? Does the meaning or a portrait go beyond that of its literal presentation?.

International Museum Day

ICOM and World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM) launch the XXXI edition of International Museum Day 2009 on “Museums and Tourism”.

The Night of the Museums

Once again the museums of Barcelona will extend their opening times to open their doors until one o’clock in the morning, in celebration of the Night of the Museums. The common theme of this edition is music, and the Barbier-Mueller Pre-Columbian Art Museum of Barcelona will do so with two shoes. .

Art and myth in primitive cultures Conference

The Association of Friends of the Barbier-Mueller Pre-Columbian Art Museum and the University Institute of Culture of the Pompeu Fabra University organise for the third year in a row the Art and myth in primitive cultures Conference, with the aim on this occasion of reflecting on the primitive cultures in two areas of the American continent: Amazonia and the north- eastern coast of North America.

Artist workshop

8 hours workshop in wich a daily plastic workshop around a piece of the museum will take place. Hours: from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., every day.

Arqueoticket: a journey through history

Do you know what the origin is of our daily habits? Do you know what the essence is of our society?

Art and myth in cosmological cultures

The relation between art and myth is a fundamental theme so as to be able to understand the artistic manifestations of numerous non-western cultures, where both myth as well as all that which is sacred are included in each motif of the iconography.

In this conference the question will be dealt with from different perspectives, taking as examples paradigmatic cultures as separated in time and space as those developed in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mexico and China.

Legends and myths of Amazonia

Narration of stories full of strange beings, spirits and animals of the jungle which are included in the Amazonian pottery of the exhibition.

Inhabiting the land of chiapaneca. Constructing a world from there

Talk within the cycle “Saturdays at the Barbier-Mueller” given by the Mexican architect Andrea Argüello. A brief history of the architecture of Chiapas, in south-east Mexico.

Diàspores, migracions i exilis en el món maia

Simposi internacional organitzat per la Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas, la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, el Centro Peninsular de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales i la Universidad Autónoma de México.

Colombian Andinian Music from the pre-Colombian period

Talk within the cycle “Saturdays at the Barbier-Mueller” given by Julián Salcedo, member of the board of directors of the Association FUNMUSICA, aimed at promotion Colombian music, which ended with a concert by the Dueto Instrumental Colombiano.

When America wasn't America

The activity presented under the title of “When America wasn’t America”, consists of a didactical proposal offered by the Educational Service of the Museum to school groups, to work in the museum on the cultural environment of ancient America.

Pre-Columbian America explained well

Within the framework of the exhibition “Ritual Arts of the New Continent. Pre-Columbian America”, the Museum, propose a guided visit for publics of all ages with specialised monitors, in an enjoyable way, so as to make the visit easier to understand.

Fantastic animals of the American legends

Summer is the period of popular festivities and celebrations filling the streets with beasts and fantastic beings which emerge from our popular mythology.

The speaking quipus in 16th century Peru: a manuscript revolutionises the history of the Tahuantinsuyu

Talk given by the historian Andrea Gatti within the cycle Saturdays at the Barbier-Mueller.

Verses through time, from Moctezuma to Octavio Paz

On the occasion of the celebration of the Poetry Week, the courtyard of the Palau Nadal will hold a recital of poetry with verses by Octavio Paz and other from the Aztec literature. Recitals given by Elisabeth Hernández and Manel Solàs.

Renaissance brocades and materials from the New World, symbols of common power

Talk given within the cycle Saturdays at the Barbier-Mueller organised by the Friends’ Association of the Museum.

1st Art and Collectors Conference

The 1st Art and Collections Conference” under the title of Visions of the Art of Africa, is a first-time cultural meeting aimed both at experts and collectors, as well as a broader public interested in art.

Presentation of the school activities

The Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art presents its proposal for school activities for the 2006-2007 course, carried out within the framework of the exhibition “Ritual Arts of the New Continent. Pre-Columbian America”.

Start the year with good luck!

If you have already tried on red clothes, the coloured cloths and other ritual for starting the year on the right foot, come and celebrate the alacitas.

Colima and western mesoamerica

A reflection about all its own and other’s of its cultural characteristics