Opening hours and prices

Museum opening hours

• Winter opening times: October to April, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm; Sundays and public holidays, 10am to 3pm.
• Summer opening times: May to September, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 8pm; Sundays and public holidays, 10am to 3pm.
• Mondays closed, except public holidays. 
• Annual closing: January 1st, May 1st and December 25th.

Museum prices

• General admission: €12. It allows access to the building, to visit the permanent collection, the temporary exhibitions and the Rooftop Viewpoint (valid for two days during a month from the purchasing date). See discounts and free admission in the tabs below. (Check availability)
• Basic admission: €2 (this ticket does not accept discounts or gratuities). It allows access to the building, the rooftop viewpoint and the make the self-guided tour of the building's spaces (material available throughout the year). Free admission for under 16s and over 65s, if you buy a general admission ticket.

Rules for visiting

Admission to the museum is free every Saturday from 3 pm, every first Sunday of the month and open doors days, but early online admission must be reserved for better control of capacity and to improve the quality of the visit.

The ticket offices close 30 minutes before the museum closes. The rooms are emptied 15 minutes before.

Mà parallamps (Hand lightning rod)

Antonio Ortega

Now you can see a new lightning rod protruding from the middle of the domed roof of the Oval Room. It was created by the artist Antonio Ortega (Sant Celoni, 1968) in collaboration with Grup d’Estudi (former students of the Escola Massana).

At the end of this lightning rod, there is a reproduction of the hand of Christ in Majesty of Sant Climent de Taüll, a masterpiece of Romanesque art and the museum’s collection. The trimmings that decorate the Hand lightning rod have the shapes typical of traditional Catalan forging finishes. All this makes it stand out from the rest of the lightning rods that we can see crowning the four Churrigueresque-style towers of the Palau Nacional.

Due to the fact that it occupies the most hierarchical point of the Palace, the Hand lightning rod turns the museum into its pedestal.

Antoni Miralda: Lamb of the Apocalypse “Agnus Dei” (1989)

Antoni Miralda (Terrassa, 1942) is one of the most outstanding figures of conceptual art. With his ceremonials, complex collective actions, he has endowed his performances with a very particular liturgical and festive dimension. The project Honeymoon (1986-1992) is one of his most important creations. It proposed the symbolic marriage between the statue of Columbus in Barcelona and the statue of Liberty, a union between the cities of Barcelona and New York. It was structured in various actions over time. One of them consisted of the offering of a bedspread as a wedding present. This gigantic embroidery depicts the mystic lamb in the apse of Sant Climent in Taüll, a masterpiece in the Romanesque Art collection, which has fascinated Avant-garde artists. Here, its mysterious and mystic presence becomes a Pop icon. The piece, measuring 18 x 15 metres, was exhibited to the public again in 1995, in the Oval Hall, as part of the exhibition Agnus Dei: Romanesque Art and Twentieth-Century Artists, and once more in 2019, with the ceremony-performance Peccata Mundi.

More info:

• Peccata Mundi. An installation by Miralda in the Museu Nacional
• Blog post: Peccata Mundi, the ceremony-performance by Miralda
• Video of the ceremony-performance