Buren's cube
Coloured glass over the quay — the new front's icon.
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Picasso first without hesitation — the city's original story. The Pompidou is the elegant modern addition for a second day or the seafront afternoon. Málaga's full equation holds both: the city now boasts thirty museums.
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The colour cube on the harbour quay is the first Pompidou outside France: Paris chose Málaga in 2015 for its first international branch — recognition of Picasso's city becoming the southern museum capital — and Daniel Buren's coloured glass cube became the new seafront's icon. Beneath the quay, halls show twentieth- and twenty-first-century selections from Paris's vaults in rotating cycles — Kahlo, Bacon and Magritte have passed through — plus ambitious temporary shows: a concentrated museum dosed not to drain your day. Its position crowns Muelle Uno — Málaga's port turned palm promenade and restaurants — so the visit fuses with the waterfront walk: an hour's museum, then sea and cafés, the Alcazaba ten minutes behind.
Coloured glass over the quay — the new front's icon.
Two centuries' selections rotating from the mother house.
Pasaje Doctor Carrillo Casaux, Muelle Uno, 29016 Málaga