Museu Tàpies

The Museu Tàpies in Barcelona is an art and cultural center dedicated to the life and work of the painter Antoni Tàpies. The foundation he established in 1984 opened in 1990 in the former Montaner i Simon publishing house on Carrer d'Aragó. The building, constructed between 1880 and 1885 by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, is considered one of the first in the Eixample district to combine an industrial design with exposed brick and iron in the early Catalan Modernisme style. The collection includes numerous works by the artist as well as loans from his family. In addition to permanent exhibitions on Tàpies, the museum regularly presents changing temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.