The Fundación Picasso, also known as the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Foundation,Places in Malaga associated with Picasso
, Fundación Picasso. Accessed online 2010-01-17. is a foundation based in

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with the objective of promoting and promulgating the work of the artist

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. They are headquartered in the home on the Plaza de la Merced that was his birthplace, now the Museo Casa Natal ("Birthplace Museum"), one of the world's many Picasso museums.To know the Foundation
, Fundación Picasso, official site. Accessed online 2010-01-16. The Fundación Picasso is distinct from the former Fundación Paul, Christine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso ("Paul, Christine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation") and Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga ("Malaga Picasso Museum Foundation"), both associated with the much larger

Museo Picasso Málaga The Museo Picasso Málaga is a museum in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, the city where artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born. La Opinión de Málaga.es,
La Junta aprueba el martes ceder la sede del Museo Picasso a su Fundación
'', 2009-01-30. Accessed online 2010-01-16.See a brief remark on these two foundations in Gonzalo Zanza/Pedro Corral

''ABC'' (Madrid) 1999-11-06. Article begins on p. 31, link is to p. 33, which has the relevant passage.
, Museo Picasso Málaga. Accessed online 2010-01-17.
, Museo Picasso Málaga, Press release 2009-12-13. Accessed online 2010-01-17. The foundation was created by the city government of Málaga in 1988. Headquartered since its founding in the ''Casa Natal''—declared a Historical-Artistic Monument of National Interest—it later obtained an additional exhibition space at Number 13 of the same plaza in 2005. The facility includes a Picasso documentation center; art collections; a department of cultural promotion, which organizes expositions and conferences; and the Museo Casa Natal. In 2009 the

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agreed to give the foundation the Palacio de Buenavista (seat of the

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and others. There are also works by local Malagan artists Manuel Barbadillo, Enrique Brinkmann, Eugenio Chicano, Jorge Lindell, Francisco Peinado, and Dámaso Ruano; works by

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, Joaquín de Molina,

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, and Joaquín Gallego; works by the winners of the Beca Pablo Ruiz Picasso a las Artes Plásticas (Pablo Ruiz Picasso Scholarship for the Plastic Arts); and a small collection of sculpture.

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Places in Malaga associated with Picasso
gives a good description of the house where Picasso was born and with other locations in Málaga that played a role in his childhood. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fundacion Picasso Pablo Picasso Picasso, Fundacion Museums in Málaga Picasso, Pablo Museums established in 1988 Museums devoted to one artist

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