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The Palau Reial de Pedralbes ("Pedralbes Royal Palace") is a building placed in the middle of an ample garden in the district of Les Corts, in Barcelona. From 1919 until 1931 it was the residence for the Spanish Royal Family when they visited the city. It houses the Museu de la Ceramica (ceramic museum), Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària and Museu de les Arts Decoratives (interior design museum), both part of the Disseny Hub Barcelona and is the permanent seat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM).

Entrance lobby of Palau Reial de Pedralbes. Frieze in lobby of Palau Reial de Pedralbes

Gallery at Ceramics Museum of Barcelona

Candelstick. Manises XV

Barcelona XIII 

Barcelona. 1710

Jar with lid. China. Quing Dynasty.

Apothecary jar. Barcelona, 18th century

Puente del Arzobispo XIXMuel XVI

Ceràmica Valenciana. XIII-XIV

Manises plate featuring hare (15th C)Paterna/Manises plate with hare (15th C)

Plate with fish (17th C)

Baked terracotta plaque with hare design

Stoneware vase in Turkish-Persian style (1916) by Andre Metthey

Basin with bull & long legged bird (15th C)

The Museu de la Ceramica (ceramic museum) is home to Spain’s most important collection of glazed ceramics, dating from the 11th century through to the latest artistic trends. Highlights of the collection include the medieval pieces, such as bowls and jugs from Teruel and Paterna, in the Mudejar style; also Renaissance and Baroque ceramics from Talavera, Seville, Aragon, Catalonia and Puente del Arzobispo. The collection also features a section on Catalonian ceramics from the 13th century through to the present day

Talavera de la Reina XVII

China

Founded in 1966, the Ceramics Museum of Barcelona has been housed in the Palace of Pedralbes since 1990.  This 18th-century building, surrounded by a park, was enlarged to become a residence for the Spanish royal family.

Almohade period ceramics

Plate with rows of leaves in relief (16th C)

The permanent collection presents the most exceptional works of Spanish ceramic art, distinguished for both their uniqueness and their artistic value.  This ceramic heritage has evolved from the preservation of archaeological remains and acquisitions from private collections. 

The Veuve Perrin factory (Marseille). C. 1760

Of special interest are the mediaeval pieces from the Almohade period, the objects in the Mudéjar style from Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia, the Morisco crockery from Paterna and Manises, the tableware and polychrome tile work from Spain’s Golden Age, examples from the Rococo period of Alcora, and creations by contemporary artists.

Thanks to the wealth of its collections, the Ceramics Museum enjoys international prestige and is regarded as a leading centre for the study of traditional and contemporary ceramics.  In addition to its permanent collection, archaeologists, museologists, ceramologists, collectors and other specialists may visit the Museum’s vaults to study the material from excavations, and also the archive and the library.

Talavera de la Reina XVII

Cultura Etrusca Gerra almohade

The museum contains works by

major contemporary

artists, including Serra Fiter,

Llorens Artigas, Cumella, Picasso

and Miró.

Object Name:installació Author: Cortiella, Rosa Dating:2010

Ruiz Picasso, Pablo (Màlaga, Espanya, 1881 - Mougins, França, 1973) Dating:1952

Ruiz Picasso, Pablo (Màlaga, Espanya, 1881 - Mougins, França, 1973)

Ruiz Picasso, Pablo (Màlaga, Espanya, 1881 - Mougins, França, 1973)

Camouflage. Rosa Cortiella. 2005

CircleClaudi Casanovas. 1993

Ruiz Picasso, Pablo (1881 - 1973)

Miró i Ferrà, Joan (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983)Dating:1977

Porcelain vase (1906) by Antoni Serra Fiter

Vase with Muses (1907) by Antoni Serra Fiter

Dragonfly Jug Antoni Serra Fiter. 1907

The Museum of Ceramics CLOSED ITS DOORS in March 3, 2013

Disseny Hub Barcelona, the headquarters of the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, house the following historic and contemporary collections, which form part of the city’s heritage: decorative art, ceramics, design, textiles and clothing, and graphic art.

The building, located in a new of nerve-centre of culture and innovation in the city, is a latest-generation facility in terms of both features and sustainability. While ending the final building in the Plaça de les Glòries, temporarily DHUB is divided into 2 areas of the city of Barcelona, the 'DHUB' (Carrer de Moncada, 12) and DHUB Museus in Palau de Pedralbes (Avenida Diagonal, 686).

Disseny Hub Barcelona ("Design Hub Barcelona"), abbreviated as DHUB, is a new center of Barcelona's Institute of Culture, who works to promote better understanding and good use of the design world, acting as a museum, and laboratory. It focuses on 4 bracnhes or design disciplines: space design, product design, information design and fashion.

The Museu del Disseny de Barcelona originated with the integration of the collections of the Museu de les Arts Decoratives, the Museu de Ceràmica, the Museu Tèxtil i d’Indumentària and the Gabinet de les Arts Gràfiques.  Currently, the collections are in the process of being relocated, and the museum will open the doors of the new Disseny Hub Barcelona building during the spring of 2014. 

The seven-storey Museu del Disseny de Barcelona is located on the edge of Plaça de les Glories, next door to Jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar office tower. Due to the level changes across the site, the building has part of its volume buried beneath the ground and has public entrances on two of its floors.

Set to open in spring 2014, the museum will combine the decorative arts, ceramics, textiles and graphic design collections of four existing museums, which have now closed their doors.

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