Different cities around the globe celebrate Pride in very different ways. For example, in Barcelona, several museums transform their spaces with proposals that claim sexual and gender diversity
The institutions participating in the initiative, which has the collaboration of the LGTBI Center of Barcelona, are the Fundació Joan Miró , the Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya , the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona , the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona , the Museu Marítim de Barcelona , the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and the Museus de Sant Cugat del Vallès. Each one has designed proposals from their specific field of knowledge to show their commitment to the LGTBI fight. Through activities such as temporary exhibitions, guided tours, special itineraries and talks, museums have tried to question historical uses and customs, highlight the trajectories of activists, discover unknown facets of artists or make queer approaches to their works.
Fundació Joan Miró ‘A body like a universe’,
It is a queer approach to the work of Joan Miró, to rediscover the artist by delving into the complexity of the characters that make up his work.
The activity has two aspects. The first part begins before you even get to the museum. It consists of listening to an audio of the artist Blanca Arias with music by Edu Rubix that has the objective of predisposing us physically and mentally to delve into the work of Miró. Afterward, you can make a free visit through the rooms of the ‘A body like a universe’ collection (between June 26 and July 15 ) or you can take a participatory itinerary led by the artist Blanca Arias (between July 27 June and July 11 ), with a price of €7 .
Design Museum of Barcelona ‘Unisex – Agender – Genderless’, ‘
The dressed body. Silhouettes and fashion (1550-2015)’ through the selection of five pieces from the exhibition. Each of these will be accompanied by explanatory texts that will allow you to discover what unisex, agender or genderless fashion is and take a historical journey with a gender perspective through the changes that have occurred in the world of fashion from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. It can be visited between June 28 and August 29 .
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Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Rebellious glances: readings of the collection in LGTBI code’, The MNAC proposes a tour of the museum’s collections, with a selection of works that will be reinterpreted from a queer perspective. The intention is to recover views buried by the dominant visual narratives. Some of the topics that will be discussed will be the relationship between the representation of intersex people and the sexuality of angels or the origin of Saint Sebastian as a gay icon.
Four guided visits have been scheduled, on Saturdays June 19 and 26 and July 10 and 17 . The activity is free, but you have to register in all cases.
LGTBI Center of Barcelona ‘Excited Bestiary’,
The LGTBI Center has organized an activity as a synthesis that seeks the connection between the different proposals of LGTBI Museums. It is a theoretical and practical drag workshop, which aims to appropriate all the archetypes presented by museums.
It will feature the participation of the transvestites Ken Pollet and Norma Mor and the historian Víctor Ramírez Tur. It will take place on July 10 with two shifts (from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.), it is free and registration is required.
Museu Marítim de Barcelona ‘Desire is as fluid as the sea’,
The sexuality of sailors, who spent long periods living together in small spaces with almost no privacy, has historically been silenced. The Museu Marítim proposes an exhibition to delve into the subject, through a look at the invisible erotic, sexual and sentimental relationships that sailors have maintained on board ships for centuries.
From June 28 until November 7. Admission is free .
