Girona Art Museum’s collection
A quiet journey through Catalan art history — from Romanesque devotion to contemporary voices, inside one of Girona’s most beautiful historic buildings.
ArtLovers Tip
A beautiful Girona stop — not loud, not trendy, but essential if you want to feel the city’s artistic memory from the inside. Visit time / Density: Medium-to-dense if you follow the full collection route. Allow 60–90 minutes for a good visit. If you only want a focused stop around the medieval and Gothic highlights, it can work in 30–45 minutes.
Exhibition Highlights - What you'll see
The museum occupies the former Episcopal Palace and is home to important art collections mainly belonging to the Bishopric of Girona, the Girona Provincial Council and the Catalonia Regional Government. Together they make up one of the best collections of Catalan art from antiquity to the present day.
The collection offers a chronological journey through Girona and Catalan art, from the Romanesque period to the 20th and 21st centuries. The museum organises its holdings across key periods: Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, 19th century, 20th and 21st centuries, plus the art collection of the newspaper Avui.
This is the kind of museum where art history feels local and intimate. You move from sacred medieval works to Gothic refinement, Renaissance and Baroque religious imagery, 19th-century painting, and more modern artistic languages. It is not about blockbuster names. It is about understanding a territory through the images it preserved, commissioned, prayed to, lived with and later collected.
The setting matters too: the museum is housed in the former Episcopal Palace, close to Girona Cathedral, which gives the visit a strong sense of place. Art, architecture and the old city speak together.
Worth the trip
Because Girona is not only a beautiful medieval city — it is also a cultural archive.
The Museu d’Art de Girona helps you understand Catalonia beyond Barcelona. Its collection shows how artistic languages arrived, transformed and took root in Girona: Romanesque spirituality, Gothic elegance, Baroque drama, 19th-century identity, and modern cultural memory.
For Artlovers, it is worth visiting because it makes Girona deeper. After walking the old streets, the cathedral area and the Jewish Quarter, this museum gives you the visual history behind the city’s atmosphere.
How to experience it
Visit it as a slow walk through time.
Start with the medieval rooms and look at how art functioned before museums: as devotion, power, teaching and presence. Then move forward and notice how the idea of image changes — from sacred object to painting, from religious narrative to modern expression.
This is a perfect museum to pair with Girona Cathedral and the old town. The best experience is not to isolate the museum, but to let it complete the city.
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