The Fundació Miró in Barcelona is close to the figures for 2019, with 288,984 visitors, and a daily average of 957. In 2019, the total number reached 364,515, with a daily average of 1,300 people, but it should be added that the last quarters of 2022 it already exceeded the average for the pre-pandemic year by 10%, up to 85,250 visitors.
France, the United States and Barcelona lead the main origins of the public who come to the Montjuïc exhibition space, followed by Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It should be noted that national visitors account for 31% of the total, as opposed to 25% in 2019.
Of the temporary exhibitions, the one that has accumulated the most visits has been Joan Miró. The most intimate legacy, in collaboration with the Fundació Banc Sabadell, which registered 125,637 visitors. Paul Klee and the secrets of nature, sponsored by the BBVA Foundation, reached 52,129 visitors.
As for the temporary exhibitions outside the foundation, Joan Miró. Women birds stars, at the My Art Museum in Seoul (Korea), had 45,000 visitors. And Miró's in Zabalaga, at the Chillida Leku, in Hernani, registered 40,000 visitors.
For this year 2023, the Fundació Joan Miró has a budget of 11.3 million euros and will develop a program for all audiences: the Imaginary Friends exhibitions, which will bring contemporary artistic practices closer to everyone; 25 Years of Han Nefkens Connecting People Through Art, which will celebrate this collector's dedication to promoting and promoting art produced in Asian countries; and Miró Picasso, which, for the first time, will present an exhibition co-organized by the Museu Picasso of Barcelona and the Fundació Joan Miró, and which can be visited simultaneously in both museums.
The presence of Joan Miró and the Fundació in the world will be reinforced through the Joan Miró award, with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation as a new partner, with a more participatory process with students, and the possibilities offered by the new digital environments, providing newly produced audiovisual content and its collection on free digital platforms such as CaixaForum, from Fundació la Caixa.
With the museum's 50th anniversary on the horizon, Marko Daniel, director of the Fundació Joan Miró, shares the institution's satisfaction with the recovery of visitor and economic figures, and is committed to continuing to promote "the transformative experience of art in a space as unique and inspiring as the artist who created it.”
