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.

Discover what Columbus didn't discover

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.

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. .

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.