One of the top places on my list to visit in Malaga is the Pablo Picasso Birthplace Museum. I got my ticket to the museum included with the Hop-on, Hop-off bus ticket. If you want to go that route you need to purchase the essential ticket from City Sightseeing. You can do that online. I did it when I got off of the ship in Malaga.

Carnival sold this Hop-on, Hop off ticket on the ship and some people were disappointed because it was the cheaper version that did not include tickets to sites. If you want to purchase a ticket to just the museum, it only costs 3 euros or $3.26. The museum itself is actually just to the right of the white SUV in the below picture. I went to the wrong building first and had to find my way to that building.

This is the building I went to first because it is across from the Picasso statue and it has the name of the museum on the door. But this appeared to be a breakroom. The actual museum is a block over.

This is the actual museum. 

The Museum is open seven days a week from 9:30am until 8pm.

Pablo Picasso was born in this house October 25, 1881. He lived in Malaga for nine years and returned several times.

This is what you see when you walk into the museum. Straight ahead is how you get to the second floor. You don’t go that way until after you’ve done the first floor.

To your left is where you can purchase tickets and pickup your audio tour. In my case I had a card from the Hop-on, Hop-off tour that they scanned before giving me my audio tour device.

Pablo Picasso wanted to be a painter since he was a young child. This is his drawing of Hercules from when he was 9 years old.

I believe this quote which I found in another room is referring to the above drawing.

This is a travel palette that belonged to painter Horacio Lengo who was a friend of the Picasso family.

This is an etching on copper by Picasso called “Hercules Kills the Centaur Nessus” from 1930

In the early 1930’s Picasso’s girlfriend Marie-Therese Walter, who was 28 years younger than him, was the subject of much of his artwork.

These two are “Sculptor and his Self-Portrait Serving as a Pedestal for the Head of Marie Therese” and “Marie-Therese Looking at a Sculpted Self-Portrait of the Sculptor” from 1933.

 

“Marie-Therese Kneeling, Studying a Sculpted Group” also from 1933.

This is a large photo of Picasso’s father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, teaching drawing at the School of Arts and Industries in Barcelona in 1900. 

This is a portrait of Picasso’s father painted by Jose Ponce Puente in 1886.

 

These drawings were from a sketchbook when Picasso was working on Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.

 

On this TV screen you can view other art created during the process of creating Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. 

This wall is a collection of Picasso nudes mostly from the 1940’s and 1950’s.

The top left is “Nude Woman and Profile” from 1944. Below it is “Nude Woman Seated” from 1943. 

The middle left one is “Woman with Necklace” from 1944. The middle right one is the only piece on this wall that isn’t from the 40’s-50’s. That is “Figure” from 1929.

On the top right we have “Nude with Chair” from 1954 and “Nude” from 1955.

“Two Nude Women” is a wash drawing on stone from 1945.

  

“Painter Working Observed by Nude Model” from 1927-1928

“Painter and His Model” is a crayon on stone from 1929-1930.

“Reclining Model” is another crayon on stone from 1954.

 “The Old Painters Studio” is crayon on transfer paper transferred to stone from 1954.

“Clothed Pose” is a wash drawing on zinc from 1954.

“Painter Standing at His Easel with a Model” is a aquatint on copper from 1964. This one is on temporary loan to the museum.

That was the lower floor. Now we are going to head upstairs. 

The walls in the stairwell are full of quotes.

The first room upstairs contains the family tree, photos, and personal items from the family.

On the left is the original key and keyhole from this house. In the middle is a Picasso owned safety pin. And on the right are earrings that belonged to Picasso’s mother.   

This was a comb that belonged to Picasso’s sister.

This was Picasso’s father’s waistcoat.

These photos are Picasso and his parents.

This was a sketchbook belonging to Picasso that dates back to 1894-1895.

The next room is the is the living room and dining room area.

The bottom middle painting is “View of a Port” by Picasso’s father, Jose Ruiz Blasco.

    

 

In the next room we have some personal items as well as artwork.

This is Picasso’s shirt umbilical sash, and christening dress.

This is the registry for Picasso’s baptism at Santiago Church November 10, 1881 in Malaga.

 

This was the first shoe worn by Pablo Picasso.

Both Picasso and his father had a thing for painting birds. Picasso named his second daughter Paloma which is Spanish for dove.

“Pigeons” was done in 1890 when Picasso was 9 years old.

“Dovecote” was painted by Picasso’s father in 1878.

   

“Youth” is a Picasso from 1950 that was done in crayon and brush on zinc.   

“Port of Malaga” from 1888-1890 was oil on wood. 

This would’ve been done when he was 7-9 years old. He told his daughter he painted it secretly under his bed using the light of an oil lamp and paint from his fathers palette. He called it his first art work.

“Two old men at the seaside” was an etching on copper that was used as an illustration in this book.

 “On the Beach” and “The Wrestlers” from 1921.

“Table with Fish” is a wash drawing on zinc from 1948.

“Big Fish” is a white ceramic plate from 1956.

“Pan” is a wash drawing on zinc from 1948.

 

 “Three Brothers” is an etching on zinc from 1923.

“Homage to Bacchus” was done with a lithographic crayon, brush, scrapper and transfer paper and transferred to stone from 1960.

“The sculptor and his model in front of a sculptural group representing a centaur embracing a woman” is an etching on copper from 1933.

“Centaur and bacchant with faun” is a wash drawing done with a lithographic crayon and scrapper on transfer paper and transferred to stone from 1947.

We are now moving into the last section of Picasso artwork. This section is centered around bulls and bullfighting.

This is a photograph of the Picasso tomb.   

 

This portrait of Picasso is from 1961.   

And we are heading out.

And downstairs. 

 There is a giftshop downstairs where you can purchase Picasso related items.

That was the Picasso birthplace museum. I learned a lot and I’m glad I took the time to go through it.