This paper discusses the experience promoted by the Directorate General for Museums and Libraries under the Madrid Regional government's Department of Arts when publishing the Works of Pablo Picasso included in the Arias Collection on exhibit in Buitrago del Lozoya's Picasso Museum.
Both the collection and its publication on the Net are merely minor anecdotes considering their respective contexts.
The collection comprises few more than 60 objects bearing testimony to the long, warm friendship between Picasso and his barber Eugenio Arias, born in the village where the museum stands. And it is precisely this anecdotal nature that makes the Picasso Museum a veritable museum of the story of a friendship, an exile and a shared passion for bullfighting, instead of just a modern art museum.
This is precisely why the biggest effort in the creation of the Web site was geared towards documenting the two protagonists' lifestyle, their friends in common and the sites in the south of France serving as the backdrop for this small story.
While the objects are exhibited in the museum rooms, it is on the Web site where we aim to document the context.

Site: http://www.madrid.org/museo_picasso/

Key words: web design, context, modern art, museum