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A historic headquarters for culture in Barcelona

Located in a former factory designed by Puig, remodeling Arata Isozaki has made this jewel of modernism in a building made art.
A jewel of modernist industrial recovered for all citizens
In 2002, CaixaForum Barcelona opened giving new life to one of the main modernist buildings. This former textile factory, located at the foot of Montjuïc, was commissioned by the businessman Casimir Casaramona Josep Puig, one of the three most representative Catalan Modernist architects together with Antoni Gaudí and Domenech i Montaner.
Puig received by the work of this factory buildings Annual Art Award in 1913 and was declared a historical monument of national interest in 1976.
After a long period of inactivity, "la Caixa" bought it in 1963 and decided to give it a new function social, cultural and educational, and give it its own infrastructure of a modern cultural center without altering the original spirit of the work.
The project of restoration and extension of CaixaForum collaborated the acclaimed architects Arata Isozaki, Francisco Javier Asarta, Roberto Luna and Robert Brufau.
Past and present, tradition and modernity come together in this unique piece of Catalan industrial modernist architecture of the early twentieth century.
12,000 m² dedicated to spreading culture
Since CaixaForum has become one of the most dynamic cultural spaces, active and alive city, with a broad program of social, cultural and educational for all ages.
Exhibitions of ancient, modern and contemporary art, guided tours, films, concerts, debates and conferences, theater shows, cycles of literature and thought, art and media education programs, both school and family are some of the activities CaixaForum take place permanently. The contemporary art collection of "la Caixa", one of the most important in Spain, are exhibited in the form of temporary exhibitions.
Dali, Goya, Delacroix, Barceló, Lucien Freud, Cartier-Bresson, Le Corbussier, Chaplin, Pixar, princes Etruscan treasures of Arabia ... More than a hundred exhibitions have been organized at CaixaForum Barcelona from it opened.
Therefore, the center currently has five galleries, a large auditorium, multipurpose classrooms and workshops for educational use.