Masterpieces of the pre-Columbian art

in the Barbier-Mueller collections

A geographic-chronological route through artistic pieces that, by their highest quality level, are consider masterpieces of some of the main Hispanic cultures of America.

The PreColumbian Caribbean

Fra Ramon Pané and theTaino universe

This exhibition present 56 of the most valued pieces from the British Museum of London, the Museum of America of Madrid, and from the Barbier-Mueller PreColumbian Art Museum of Barcelona, which will allow us to get closer to the daily life and imaginary world of the Tainos.

Three ways to America

Exhibition of the Educational Project

The children have made their own interpretation of Pre-Columbian art and the Barbier-Mueller PreColumbian Art Museum of Barcelona presents their work in the “Exhibition of the Educational Project: Three ways to America”.

The invited piece: A coyote from the Purépecha culture

Temporal exhibition, in small format, that is devoted to the Purépecha culture of Mexico (called “Tarascan” by the Spanish). The central piece is a stone coyote, temporarily on loan from the Rietberg Museum of Zurich.

Amazonia. Prehistoric Brazil

Installed in a new exhibition area, the exhibition shows the refined and subtle beauty of Amazonian ceramics from Brazil. Considered one of the most prestigious collections of the world, it doubtless constitutes an opportunity to discover the rich aesthetic universe of Amazonian pre-Columbian cultures.

Ritual arts of the New Continent

Pre-Columbian America

The exhibition Ritual Arts of the New Continent. Pre-Columbian America consists of a unique opportunity to get closer the fabulous legacy of the ancient cultures of Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.

Picasso

The Man of a Thousand Masks

On the occasion of the project PICASSO2006BCN, The Barbier-Mueller Pre-Columbian Art Museum of Barcelona organised an atypical exhibition, that accompanied the master with sculptures done by artists from the tribal world, pre-Columbian America or ancient Mediterranean.

Birds and felines

Arts Compared

This exhibition invites us to go on a trip across the five continents to how different cultures represented, through art, their relation with the worlds of birds and felines.

Images of the body

The museum interpreted by Robert Wilson

A reflection in two times that incorporates pre-Columbian forms in a current constuction

Pre-Columbian Ceramic Treasures

In the Barbier-Mueller collections

This exhibition we go on a journey through the ceramic production of the different cultures of pre-Columbian America trying to decipher how the men and women understood and explained the world which surrounded them.

A colossal Olmec head

In the Barbier-Mueller collections

The Barbier-Mueller Museum presented the reproduction of a monumental Olmec sculpture: the colossal head Number 8.

Arts of Central America

With this exhibition we go in depth, by means of pottery and sculptures in stone, of the imaginary of the ancient peoples of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama.

The fruits of silence

Art of the North American Indians

The exhibition “Ritual Arts of the New Continent. Pre-Columbian America” consists of a unique opportunity to get closer the fabulous legacy of the ancient cultures