Museo Casa Natal de Picasso
Modest first-floor apartment where a struggling infant's first cry became art history's loudest opening line.
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This guide to the Museo Casa Natal de Picasso in Málaga opens on the night of October 25, 1881, in this first-floor room on Plaza de la Merced, where a midwife had given up on a newborn who wasn't breathing. You'll hear about the uncle, a cigar-smoking doctor named Salvador Ruiz, who was in the room that night, and about the father, José Ruiz Blasco, later sketching birds at the window while his son grew up watching. That boy was baptized two weeks later at the same church font his parents and grandparents had used. Stand in the room where the family's story with Málaga began.
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