MUSEO MARES, Musée De Marès

Hi, I'm Alyson, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.

Today I'll accompany you through the Frederic Marès Museum, which is one of the most amazing and bizarre museums in Barcelona!

You're now in the museum dedicated to sculptor and collector Frederic Marès Deulovol, who was born in 1893. He donated the extraordinary collection he had put together in his 98 years of life to the city, including sculptures and a large collection of objects that had commonly been used from ancient times up to the 1800s.

The building you are in, in Plaça de Sant Iu, is the old palace of the counts of Barcelona, where the museum was inaugurated in the middle of the last century. Crossing the tree-lined courtyard, your visit begins with 13 ground floor rooms that display painted busts and sculptures ranging from antiquity to the 1400s. I'd particularly like to point out the extraordinary Romanesque works in wood, and especially the series of crucifixes....