This 2026, Barcelona is the World Capital of Architecture, an invitation to rethink the city as a space for life, relationships and debate. The Articket museums — six key pieces of Barcelona’s architectural heritage, from medieval palaces and Modernist buildings to contemporary architectural landmarks — are participating with exhibitions, tours, and other activities that connect architecture, everyday life, and urban living. Discover the programme that will unfold at the Articket museums here!
MACBA
The MACBA building, designed by Richard Meier, is one of the great references of contemporary architecture in Barcelona. Its relationship with the square, natural light, and public space make it a gathering point where architecture directly dialogues with the city and urban life. These are the activities it will host during the event:
✦ Anna Moreno. The Third Torsion | Exhibition
How are futures that never come into existence built? The Third Torsion, by Anna Moreno, is organized around The Terminal Beach, the final part of a trilogy that reflects on temporality through utopian architecture and the potential of speculative imagination, with three projects by Ricardo Bofill and three stories by James Graham Ballard.
📅 Wed 4 Feb to Sun 5 Jul
✦ Black Urbanities. Black politics in the city | Seminar
MACBA and the CCCB co-organize this three-day seminar bringing together voices from diverse disciplines and geographies to explore collective experiences of Black life in the city, addressing the concept of “urban Blackness,” everyday urban tactics, struggles for autonomy, and emerging imaginaries in Black neighborhoods around the world.
📅 Wed 18 Feb to Sat 21 Feb
✦ Beyond Harm | Conversation
What would happen if we understood blackness as a way of life beyond the wound? Cristina Roldão, an antiracist activist, and Jovan Scott Lewis talk with Tania Safura Adam about the possibility of a narrative of Blackness that goes beyond harm.
📅 Thu 19 Feb 18:30 – Fri 20 Feb 20:00
✦ The Architecture of MACBA. Guided visit to the museum’s buildings | Guided Tour
How has MACBA’s architecture been conceived and adapted over its 30-year history? This guided visit offers an expert reading of the museum as a living and transforming architectural heritage.
✦ MACBA From the Sky | Guided Tour
MACBA From the Sky proposes a tour of various heritage spaces of the MACBA complex that explain more than four centuries of history, from the museum’s Gothic spaces to the Mirador Tower, with panoramic views of El Raval and the historic center of the city.
Fundació Joan Miró
The Fundació Joan Miró, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, is a key example of rationalist architecture. The dialogue between interior and exterior spaces, natural light, and integration with Montjuïc make the building a fundamental piece for understanding the relationship between art, architecture, and landscape. Here are the main activities for the Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026:
✦ Sound and Space – Sants-Montjuïc | Concert
A piano intervention where architect and musician Gerard Guerra integrates the architectural space of each building, weaving sonic spaces among textures and reflections. He will perform original compositions from his artistic research around the concept of musitecture, a symbiosis between sound and space.
📅 Wed 1 Apr to Thu 30 Apr
✦ Solstice Sert | Guided Visit
A special moment where the Foundation will open skylights, draw curtains, and reveal the building as Sert conceived it, including the upper terraces and the Archive.
📅 Sun 21 Jun
✦ Charlotte Perriand | Exhibition
The exhibition shows Perriand’s design philosophy and her commitment to configuring living environments as a form of social engagement, relevant in response to urgent ecological and social challenges.
📅 Mon 28 Jul to Wed 7 Oct
Museu Picasso
The Museu Picasso occupies various medieval palaces on Carrer Montcada, an architectural ensemble that allows you to travel through centuries of urban history in the heart of the Ribera neighborhood. The museum’s architecture dialogues with Picasso’s work and with the city that profoundly shaped him.
✦ Picasso: the architect | Exhibition
An exhibition tracing Picasso’s constant relationship with architecture — from the invention of Cubist space to his later works. The show is structured in nine areas and highlights the ongoing dialogue between painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as Picasso’s influence on architects of his time.
📅 Fri 20 Nov to Sun 7 Mar
Museu Tàpies
The Museu Tàpies is housed in the former Montaner i Simón publishing building, a Modernist work by Lluís Domènech i Montaner. A building that combines industrial structure, ornamentation, and functionality, and continues to generate contemporary readings.
✦ Antoni Tàpies. The Perpetual Movement of the Wall | Exhibition
This solo project is an exploration of the artist’s work through its contexts and exhibition modalities. It continues the investigation started in Antoni Tàpies. The Imagination of the World, delving into the 1950s to offer new perspectives on a moment of major transformations in the artist’s practice.
📅 Thu 12 Feb 10:00 to Sun 6 Sep 19:00
✦ Tàpies’ Barcelona | Urban Route
A walking itinerary that allows you to trace Antoni Tàpies’ biography and career through emblematic places linked to his life and work.
📅 Sat 31 May
⚠️ ATTENTION: The activities of Barcelona 2026 World Capital of Architecture are not included in the Articket pass.
