- The Museo Picasso Málaga will be open this Easter from Monday to Sunday during its usual opening hours, from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm (ticket office closes thirty minutes earlier).
- Over the course of these days, both locals and visitors from further afield can take the opportunity to visit the Museum and enjoy its exhibitions and activities.
- The permanent exhibition Pablo Picasso: Structures of Invention. The Unity of a Work is one of the MPM’s major attractions, alongside the temporary exhibitions Picasso: Memory and Desire, and the guest exhibition by Elena Asins, Antígona, an impressive installation by the pioneer of conceptual art in Spain, who passed away a decade ago.
- Children can enjoy the holiday workshops on 30 and 31 March and 1 April, in the mornings, under the title The Art of Play.
- Advance tickets for the art gallery can be purchased on the website https://www.museopicassomalaga.org/en.
- As usual, admission is free on Sundays during the last two hours of opening.
The Picasso Museum Málaga will open the gallery daily this Easter during its uninterrupted spring opening hours, from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm (with entry until 6.30 pm). Visitors to the MPM will be able to explore the permanent exhibition, entitled Pablo Picasso: Structures of Invention. The Unity of a Work. One hundred and forty-four works which, taken together, invite the public to follow some of the creative paths that Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) used to intertwine Cubism, Classicism and other phases of his work, offering the opportunity to view the artist as a whole. The exhibition is designed to engage the viewer in the artist’s creative process and stimulate their imagination, creating a new framework for understanding the work of this great master and creator.
Among the temporary exhibitions is ‘Picasso: Memory and Desire’ – on display until 12 April – which explores the development of the modern subject and the overlapping of diverse historical periods during the 1920s and 1930s, a time of profound cultural transformation. Eugenio Carmona, Professor of Art at the University of Málaga (UMA), is the curator of an exhibition that proposes a dialectical relationship between memory and desire. Alongside Picasso, visitors can view works by key 20th-century artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, René Magritte, Claude Cahun, Carl Van Vechten, Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca.
Visitors can also see Elena Asins. Antígona, an exhibition forming part of the ‘Guest Work’ programme, which revives the figure of one of the most unique and rigorous creators in contemporary Spanish art, Elena Asins (Madrid, 1940–Azpíroz, Navarre, 2015). The exhibition, which closes on 3 May, comprises two works, both on loan from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the institution that safeguards Asins’ artistic legacy. These are the installation Antígona and the video piece Hemón, both created during the final years of the artist’s life. Through a monumental structure built from the Greek letters of the heroine’s name, “Αντιγόνη”, the piece evokes ethical intransigence in the face of power, the impossibility of dialogue, and the condemnation that is consummated in silence. Asins transforms language into visual architecture and invokes the mourning, moral disobedience and individual responsibility that define the myth.
Other highlights of the Museum include ‘Picasso and the Print’, where visitors can view the Crommelynck Press and learn about the various printmaking techniques used by Picasso, and ‘The Life Line’, a biographical, artistic and historical journey that contextualises the works of the Malaga-born artist, located in the Museum’s covered courtyard.
The Art of Play. Easter Workshops
“The Art of Play” is the title of the Easter workshops at the Picasso Museum Málaga 2026, which will take place on the mornings of Monday 30, Tuesday 31 March, and Wednesday 1 April. The workshops run from 10 am to 2 pm, but there is also a play area available from 9 am to 10 am. An educational programme designed to let young artists enjoy their holidays in a fun, creative and interactive space. On this occasion, the inspiration comes from modern and contemporary art: from Pablo Picasso’s inexhaustible capacity for experimentation – and his extraordinary body of work – as well as from Elena Asins’ geometric and structural language.
Through collaborative activities, children will design their own visual games, using a variety of art materials. At the same time, they will be able to explore concepts such as geometry, colour, form and storytelling.
Aimed at children aged 4 to 12, registration for the full workshop costs €75, or €25 per day (a 20% discount applies from the second sibling onwards). The last few places are available at https://www.museopicassomalaga.org/en.
The Picasso Museum Málaga offers free admission to people with a valid disability certificate, unemployed people registered with the SEPE, children up to and including the age of 16, students from the University of Málaga with a valid student card, accredited teachers, and ICOM members. Furthermore, admission is free for everyone on Sundays during the last two hours of opening. In addition, those aged 65 and over, holders of the Euro Youth Card and accredited students under the age of 26 are entitled to discounts, which can be viewed at https://www.museopicassomalaga.org/en.
Opening image: View of a room in the exhibition Picasso: Memory and Desire. Photo: Jesús Domínguez © Museo Picasso Málaga
SOURCE: MUSEO PICASSO MÁLAGA Press Office