CaixaForum Barcelona
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| File:CaixaForum Barcelona- entrance.JPG
Entrance to the museum designed by Arata Isozaki
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| Established | February 2002 |
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| Location | Av. de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8 08038 Barcelona |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitors | 782,529 (2011)[1] |
| Public transit access | Espanya, Barcelona Metro |
| Website | "la Caixa" - Obra Social |
CaixaForum Barcelona is an art gallery in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is sponsored by Barcelona bank "la Caixa", and opened in 2002 in a former factory. CaixaForum is located in the Montjuïc area, on Avinguda de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia.[2] The museum houses art exhibits and is free to the public.[3]
Contents
The building
The building was originally commissioned as a textile factory by Casimir Casaramona i Puigcercós, and built by the famous Catalan architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch.[2] Called the "Casaramona factory", it was completed in 1911, and the same year won the City Council's award for best industrial building.[2] It closed in 1918, but reopened as a warehouse in 1929. In 1940 the building was used by the Spanish National Police Force, and it was used as such until "la Caixa" bought it in 1963.[2] It was opened as a museum in February 2002.[3] The building was restored prior to its opening,[4] and a new entrance was built, designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, in a process that included firing 100,000 bricks to match the original ones.[2] The museum, which opened in spring 2002, has almost three acres of exhibition space, a media library, auditorium, classrooms and a restaurant. Visitors descend by escalator to the basement lobby, adorned by a Sol LeWitt mural, then rise again to the exhibition spaces on the ground floor, within the crenelated brickwork.[5]
Gallery
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CaixaForum Barcelona - maqueta.JPG
A model of the building
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CaixaForum Barcelona- passadís interior.JPG
Interior courtyard, showing distinctive window shapes and brickwork
See also
References
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- ↑ Emma Daly (September 15, 2002), Glorious Recycling: Barcelona; Art in an old mill and Gaudí by bus New York Times.
