Two weeks after Stoneweg purchased the Palais Marcet (former cinema, Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona), an agreement was reached between Stoneweg and Baroness Carmen Thyssen to create a museum there. Its opening is planned for 2027. The museum will be of private interest, Stoneweg will rent the works of the Carmen Thyssen collection for exhibition for a period of 30 years. The museum will bear the name of the Baroness. This will play an active role in the foundation in charge of the premises, the Arte y Legado Barcelona foundation.
A few months ago, before purchasing the Palais Marcet, the Stoneweg company planned to expand the 19th century building from 7,000 m2 to 10,000 m2. Two teams of Catalan and international architects should be responsible for the project. Since then, no information has filtered out on the nature of the work or the timetable. Stoneweg announced that it was awaiting the necessary authorizations to carry out the operations. Some sources indicated that the investment between the purchase and the renovation works would be more than 100 million euros.
After work, the museum will house 450 Catalan works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, as well as other paintings and sculptures by great masters from the Carmen Thyssen collection.
Inherited from her late husband – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemizsa – the collection includes more than 700 paintings, including major works by Dürer, Van Eyck, Van Gogh, and Degas.
The museum will also have immersive rooms, an auditorium, a shop and a gourmet restaurant. Temporary exhibitions on fashion, jewelry and decorative arts will also be offered.
The Thyssen Museum in Barcelona will be the 4th museum created to house the collection of Carmen Thyssen, née Cervera. The first created in 2011 is located in Málaga where part of the private collection is exhibited at the Villavon Palace, property of the town hall, managed by its private foundation (Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection), the second created in 2017 is located in Andorra in the grounds of the Valira Hotel, property of the Principality. The Carmen Thyssen exhibition space in Sant Feliu de Guíxols also reopened in 2024 (created in 2012, it closed in 2020) with the help of public funding.
