Picasso Museum in Barcelona to close 2024 with record 1.13m visitors

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona is set to close 2024 with a record-breaking 1.13 million visitors.

Since January 1, the museum has seen an 8% increase in attendance compared to 2023, surpassing its previous record set in 2019.

The museum attributes the rise in visitors to growing interest in its programming, and noted there was a significant spike in attendance between May and October, the high season for tourism in Catalonia.

The 'Picasso Convida' (Picasso Invites) campaign, which offers two free hours three days a week, drew 56,000 more visitors than last year, with many of the attendees discovering the museum for the first time.

4.7m visitors to Barcelona council musuems

The Picasso Museum is the most popular of the city's council-run museums.

Montjuïc Castle, Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) and the Born Center for Culture and Memory all welcomed more than 700,000 visitors in 2024.

In total, the council's museum's recorded more than 4.7 million visitors. Catalan residents make up 30% of the total.

Among foreign visitors, the largest group comes from the United States (21%), followed by Italy (10%), France (9%), and the United Kingdom (7%).