Barcelona museums and galleries you can visit from home

In addition to the initiative #PradoContigo, which presents a different work from the Madrid-based museum's archives, you can also have a look at the museum's collections. Keep an eye out for masterpieces by Velázquez, Goya, El Greco and Bosch.

One of the jewels in the crown at the Reina Sofía museum is Guernica. Whie the contemporary art museum is temporarily closed, we're all invited to rediscover and rethink Picasso's masterpiece in a virtual space that brings together some 2,000 documents.

Bilbao's Guggenheim has closed for now, but it's still open online, where the museum has shared additional content for the exhibitions by Lygia Clark, Olafur Eliasson, Richard Artschwager, and William Kentridge.

Head to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum's website and take an immersive virtual tour of the museum while it remains closed. You can also enjoy one of its most recent temporary exhibitions, 'Rembrandt and Amsterdam portraiture, 1590-1670' – an impressive collection of 80 paintings that have never before been seen in Spain.

This online initiative helps you discover hundreds of historical garments from all around Catalonia. Take a peek into the wardrobes of Catalans from the past, including civil as well as ceremonial garb worn by women and men. (Texts in Catalan and Spanish.)

Some 1,7000 works and more than 1,000 top architects make up this project by the College of Architects of Catalonia (COAC), a fun and informative tool that opens the door to never-before-seen documentation from the COAC Archive, among others sources. For now texts are available only in Catalan.

The Uffizi Gallery is one of the most well-known and most-visited art galleries in Italy. Virtually enter the Florentine palace to enjoy the statue gallery, and works by Boticcelli, Leonardo, Rubens and other big names in the world of art.

The world-famous Paris museum offers virtual tours of different areas, including Egyptian antiquities, the remains of the Louvre's moat and the Galerie d'Apollon, an homage to the Sun King.

Taking into account that in September 2019 they premiered the presentation of their permanent collection – with Barcelona's native daughter Aurèlia Muñoz as one of the featured artists – you can take the virtual tour in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture or simply wander through the MoMA's online collection at your leisure.

While Tate's four galleries are temporarily closed, the Tate website is offering up more than a virtual tour: it's brought together 78,000 works of art by 4,000 artists as well as more than 20,000 documents. One of the best places to fortify yourself with visual culture and contemporary thought.

If you've got a whole day free, why not spend it learning about the iconography and history of the figures represented in the Sistine Chapel, one of the jewels of the Vatican Museums, which is also open for virtual tours.

Step into another of the cathedrals of European art, this time in London, without leaving home.

Enjoy this introduction to the collections of the Archaeological Museum of Athens, connecting Greek, Egyptian and Roman civilisations.

This time it's over to Washington, D.C., where works by Edward Hopper, Albert Durero, Joan Miró, Vicent van Gogh, Diane Arbus, Louise Bourgeois and so many more await your virtual visit.

The Met 360° Project consists of six immersive videos that transport you right to the heart of The Met in New York. Special mention to the Romanesque cloisters that hail from Catalonia, France and Occitania.

This five-hour one-take video, which is actually an iPhone 11 advert, has the added bonus of taking you on a tour inside the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Welcome to the British Museum and Google's Museum of the World. Fasten your seatbelt and travel via an interactive design that offers images and texts about art and design, life and death, power and identity, religion and belief, and trade and conflict.

Even Google Street View has got in the game, offering images of monuments and marvels around the world.

The artist Luca Parise sets up an interactive exhibition with acquisition of his art based on exchange. In 'Barganha', instead of selling his sculptures, he exchanges them for other goods. You can head in, have a look around, and make an offer until April 17.

The current exhibition on at Chiquita Room, 'Mise en images', reflects on images from the collections of books by curators Rosa Lleó and Pedro Torres. Right now you can't see it live or turn the pages of the books, but every day through Instagram the gallery shows visitors some of the titles that make up the exhibition.

To deal with this period of confinement, the gallery in Barcelona's Eixample (as well as Madrid's Marlborough in the Alonso Martínez neighbourhood) wants to keep offering content to art lovers. Pay attention to their social networks, which they're using to post commentary on artworks by experts and virtual visits to studios of artists such as Juan Genoves, Antonio Lópe, Blanca Muñoz and Soledad Sevilla. Follow them at #MarlboroughEnTuCasa, #ArteADomicilio and #YoMequedoEnCasa.

Among the best things to do in Barcelona is visiting the city's impressive collections of art in Barcelona's museums and galleries. As well as works by famed Spanish artists such as Picasso, Dalí and Velázquez, you'll also find plenty of collections that span from medieval times to the present.

While all of the big museums in town are great for seeing well-known artists and the history of art over time, the little art galleries throughout Barcelona are equally as interesting. From limited exhibitions to displays of local artists, the galleries allow for fresh takes on art. Head to any of the galleries, where you always get in free, and you'll be amazed at the treasures you might find.