“When you enter Berlin, just left” – this is how Max Liebermann described the way to his house on Pariser Platz to his guests. Completely destroyed in World War II, the Max Liebermann House was rebuilt in the 1990s and is now the headquarters of the...
Why do we play? How important is it for all of us, young or old? What does it mean to play well? We invite you to consider the impact of play in our lives. ‘Play Well’ explores how play transforms both childhood and society. Using displays of historic toys and...
Paul Eluard was Picasso’s best friend from 1935 onwards. Following the disappearance of Apollinaire, Eluard was the only poet with who Picasso could converse and exchange or share ideas. Quickly, the surrealist poet became literally captivated by the demiurge-artist,...
Thirty years after the exhibition Picasso poète, le crayon qui parle (Picasso Poet, the Talking Pencil), which was on display at the Musée national Picasso-Paris from 8 November 1989 to 29 January 1990, marking the publication of Picasso Écrits by Gallimard/Rmn, the...
When the English designer Robin Fior came to Lisbon, in 1973, to join the cooperative design group PRAXIS, he could not imagine that the Carnation Revolution would take place just one year later. Robin quickly became an active participant in the Portuguese cultural...
This exhibition takes the museography of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum as its starting point, marking its 50th anniversary. The Italian designer Franco Albini advised the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on the most contemporary examples of good museum design. The...