Daniel
Venteo Historian · Museologist · Author
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Barcelona · history · memory · heritage

Explaining Barcelona.
From within, to the world.

For more than thirty years I have researched, written and built narratives about Barcelona through its streets, archives, photographs and human stories.

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Daniel Venteo al Restaurant 7 Portes de Barcelona
© Jordi Otix / El Periódico

One body of work, one city

History, photography, memory and urban culture.

My work starts from a simple idea: Barcelona becomes clearer when we make the documents speak again. Books, exhibitions, research and writing form a single long-term project.

40+books
30+exhibitions
25+years of experience

Books

A bibliography built city by city.

A selection of the books that define my work.

Selected bibliography

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Daniel Venteo i l’Àngela a Sant Jordi, a la llibreria Laie, 2026; capçalera del perfil d’Instagram visible
Daniel Venteo amb un lector a Sant Jordi; capçalera del perfil d’Instagram visible
Daniel Venteo visitant una exposició a l’Arxiu Municipal de Barcelona; capçalera del perfil d’Instagram visible

Street naming

Street names also tell the story of Barcelona.

Since 2023 I have served on the Municipal Street Naming Committee as a historian and museologist.

I contribute historical research and a heritage perspective to decisions about the names that shape Barcelona’s collective memory.

La Vanguardia · 14.12.2025 A street for Lluís Permanyer: the proposal for the unnamed passage between Pelai and Ronda Universitat.

MEDIA

News & events

7th Revenedors Research GrantNEWSAssociació Antic Gremi Revenedors, 1447 · Plaça del Pi · Barcelona

NEWS

7th Revenedors Research Grant

WINNING PROJECT«La casa, l’arxiu i la ciutat. La seu del Gremi de Tenders Revenedors al Pi i la geografia urbana de la revenda, 1678-1797»
DATE AND TIME29.09.2026 · 20 h
ORGANISERAssociació Antic Gremi Revenedors, 1447
ADDRESSPlaça del Pi · 08002 Barcelona
MORE INFORMATIONOfficial announcement of the VII Research Grant 2026 ↗
Overview of the event in Plaça del Pi
© PERE VIVAS / TRIANGLE BOOKS
The speakers facing the audience
© PERE VIVAS / TRIANGLE BOOKS
The audience in front of Santa Maria del Pi
© PERE VIVAS / TRIANGLE BOOKS
View from the stage
© PERE VIVAS / TRIANGLE BOOKS
Programme for the celebration of Saint Michael
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Book presentation: Barcelona and PicassoAGENDAReial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona · Carrer dels Arcs · Barcelona

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Book presentation: Barcelona and Picasso

DATE AND TIME26.10.2026
ORGANISERReial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona
ADDRESSCarrer dels Arcs, 5 · 08002 Barcelona
MORE INFORMATIONReial Cercle Artístic ↗
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Presentation of Barcelona and Picasso at the Reial Cercle Artístic, side view
© ALBERT TORRAS CORBELLA
Presentation of Barcelona and Picasso at the Reial Cercle Artístic, view of the room
© ALBERT TORRAS CORBELLA
Group photograph at the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona
© ALBERT TORRAS CORBELLA
Barcelona and Picasso
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Sandaru, the Barcelona brand that brought Coca-Cola to CataloniaNEWSLínia · Natalia Avellan

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Sandaru, the Barcelona brand that brought Coca-Cola to Catalonia

MEDIALínia · el diari metropolità
AUTHORNatalia Avellan
DATE01.10.2026
READRead the article in Línia ↗
Sandaru · 1
Línia · Foto cedida
Sandaru · 2
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Complete bibliography

Complete bibliography.
Title by title.

Monographs and collective works, from the most recent publications to the earliest. Select a title to open its record.

55 titles

Barcelona, book by book

A body of work mapped onto the city.

Tap or hover over the covers. Each book opens its record; citywide works appear as readings of Barcelona as a whole.

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Temporary and permanent exhibitions

Making history public.

Project curation to offer experiences of reading, visiting and understanding the city.

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Chronology

Exhibitions

From the most recent projects to the earliest.

The first strike of municipal workers in Barcelona, February 1976

Municipal Archive of Barcelona

The Archive that we are

Saló del Tinell · Barcelona Municipal Archive · ICA Barcelona 2025

Documents of contemporary Barcelona

Contemporary Municipal Archive of Barcelona · opened on June 4, 2024

The Archive at war: the children’s reading room of the Archdeacon’s House, 1936–1937

Co-curated with Maria Meseguer

Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona

Documents from historical Barcelona

Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona

Permanent signage in the courtyard of the Casa de l'Ardiaca

Casa de l'Ardiaca · Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona

History of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau i Lluís Domènech i Montaner

Pavilion of Sant Salvador · Modernist site of the Hospital de Sant Pau

Hospital del Mar: 100 years with the heartbeat of Barcelona

Museum of the History of Catalonia

Firefighters of Barcelona: 180 years of photographic treasures

Barcelona City Council exhibition space

FCC and the Barcelona sewer network, 1911–2011

Barcelona City Council exhibition space

Pompeu Fabra University: history of an urban campus

Pompeu Fabra University

Catalunya.cat: a portrait of contemporary Catalonia. Expansion of the permanent exhibition

Permanent exhibition · Museum of the History of Catalonia

For freedom: Poveda and the critique of dictatorships

Museum of the History of Catalonia

The construction of greater Barcelona: the opening of Via Laietana, 1908–1958

Barcelona History Museum

Press

Conversations
about Barcelona.

Press coverage

El Periódico · edició impresa

«Picasso no sería Picasso sin los nueve años que vivió en Barcelona», per Toni Sust

Consultancy

Heritage, archives and public history.

I work with museums, archives, public and private institutions, and cultural organisations to research, interpret and communicate their heritage and history.

Contact

Shall we talk about a book, an exhibition, research or a collaboration?

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