The new design space, which is not a museum in the classical sense, aims to promote knowledge and proper use of the design world.

Disseny Hub Barcelona sets out to become a forum for dialogue and critique among design professionals and to divulge this discipline among the public at large.

This new space comprises the endowments of three museums – the Museu Tèxtil i de la Indumentària, the Museu de les Arts Decoratives and the Gabinet de les Arts Gràfiques.

While its permanent premises are under construction in the plaça de les Glòries, due to be completed in 2011, it will be temporarily housed in two buildings – the Palau del Marquès de Llió (Montcada, 12) and the Palau Reial de Pedralbes (Diagonal, 686).

The Palau del Marquès de Llió houses temporary exhibitions, study galleries – a new way of displaying collections, directed at specialists – temporary activities and a documentation centre.

The Palau Reial de Pedralbes will house the permanent exhibitions of the Museu de les Arts Decoratives (“From Unique Object to Product Design”) and the Museu Tèxtil i d’Indumentària (“The Clothed Body”).

Two New Exhibitions

Apart from the permanent exhibitions, DHUB Montcada (Palau del Marquès de Llió) features two temporary exhibitions. The first of them, which lasts until 24 May, is “Tourism. Fiction Spaces”, a close-up look at the reality of the world’s leading economic activity.

Also hosted at that venue is the first study gallery, a selection of Spanish posters from the 20th century.