Museums in Barcelona - Combination of culture and pleasure.
Introduction
There are many museums in
Barcelona
for any age and on many different topics.
Below you can find description of the most popular ones:
Joan Miro Museum
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Joan Miro Museum
website.
Football Museum
Inside the biggest stadium in all Europe, the Camp Nou, which is the home stadium of the
famous football club of Barcelona ("Barca" as it called by its fans), it is possible
to see the football museum of the club.
The football museum is spread over two floors and shows the peak points and glory days of
the club and also the many medals and prices. There are also paintings and statues of famous
players, paintings and statues that were orderd on the occasion of the Blau Grana exhibition in 1985-1987.
On the first floor small wood and bronze statues of different sports fields are exhibit.
It is also possible to be impressed from the hockey ice skates, balls.
Tickets to the stadium, different cups and medals that the team won, organized according to
the year of win inside lighted glass closets, also other items such as: contracts of former
players, players signatures and items that symbolized highlighted moments in the team history.
On the second floor it is also possible to be impressed from penciel drawing, gouache paintings and
oil paintings on wood made by players. Additionally there are posters and advertisement ads starring the players.
Also there are photos of glorious team members, ads on international games etc.
In the corner there is a reconstructed model of printing press that produce the team ads at the
early days of the club.
Video presentation projected on five screens simultaneously documents the atmosphere in the city
in a day of a game.
From this second floor, it is possible to go out to a balcony, take a fresh air and observe from
it on the stadium.
Physically there is no option to leave the museum before a visit in the souvenirs store.
The stairs are leading to the store whether you want or don’t want. Every other way is just blocked.
In the store you can find sports shoos, sportswear, footballs and basketballs, video tapes and CD’s
with Barca anthem and more stuff like that.
Open Hours, Activity Hours:
April – October: Monday-Saturday: 10:00-13:00, 15:00-18:00
Sunday and Holidays: 10:00-14:00
November – March: Tuesday-Friday: 10:00-13:00, 15:00-18:00
Sunday and Holidays: 10:00-14:00
Note: November-March: Closed on Monday
Price:
Visit in the museum is included in the ticket to the stadium tour, a ticket that costs 17 Euro.
The tour includes visiting the fans seats, the checkrooms, the praying room before games and the
team museum which all the cups and big moments in it.
How to go to Football Museum?
Option #1:
Metro: Line 3 (Green), get off at Palau Reial station. Turn on Marti i Franques Street until reaching
Avinguda Aristides Maillol Street. This option will lead you exactly to the entrance gate #7.
It is also possible to get off at Maria Cristina or Les Corts stations of this line (Line 3).
Option #2:
Metro: Line 5 (Blue), get off at Collblanc station. Turn left on Riera Blanc Street, which after 150
meters become Avinguda Aristides Maillol Street. Keep going in this street, surrounding the whole
stadium, until you’ll reach entrance gate #7. It is around 15 minutes of walking distance.
Option #3:
Bus: 7, 75, 157
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
F.C Barcelona Football museum.
in the official club website.
Wax Museum
The wax museum of Barcelona is located in the center of Barcelona, in the La Rambla boulevards,
and inside it you can pass through different historic periods and find famous characters
from past, present or future.
It is possible also to listen to a concert of famous artists, hear the voices of famous singers,
and listen to flamenco music inside a gipsy cave.
Open Hours, Activity Hours:
Monday-Friday: 10:00-13:30, 16:00-19:30
Saturday, Sunday: 11:00-14:00, 16:30-22:00
In the summer: Open continuously 10:00-22:00
How to go to Barcelona's Wax Museum?
Metro: Line 3 (Green), get off Drassanes station.
Buses: 14,36,57,59,64,157
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Wax Museum
website.
Maritime Museum
The Maritime museum in Barcelona is located in a huge structure used to be the royal dockyard.
The structure is roofed and in the space there are partitions, wood booths and exhibition closets
made from glass. Boat models can be seen everywhere. Video presentation which tells the
story of the sea, Barcelona's harbor and the life's of the sailors, is being presented every
several minutes.
In one of the galleries there is a boat. The boat looks like it is sailing in the sea and moves
every few minutes due to wind blows.
It is possible to get on the boat and imagine that you are in high seas.
Visiting this museum is a real interactive experience for both kids and parents.
Open Hours, Activity Hours:
Monday-Sunday, 10:00-19:00
How to go to Maritime Museum?
The museum address is: Av. de les Drassanes s/n 08001 Barcelona.
Metro: Line 3 (Green), get off at Drassanes station. The museum is just in front of you
when getting out from the station.
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Maritime Museum
website.
Picasso Museum
The most popular museum in Barcelona.
In the museum there are more than 3,500 art works of Picasso.
Picasso museum is located near the La Rambla boulevards, in the Barri Gotic quarter,
and inside it you will be able to find art works of Picasso from the time he was doing his
first steps as an artist, lots of sketch from the time he was young artist, and also
pictures form his “Blue” era.
The museum is spread over five aristocracy houses from the middle ages era, in Montakada Street.
Although it is the most visited museum in Barcelona every year, and although it is the 9th
tourist site most visited all over Spain, this is the most unfriendly museum in Barcelona to visitors.
In the museum there is a permanent exhibition and a changeable exhibition.
Open Hours, Activity Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00-20:00
Sunday: 10:00-15:00
Monday: Closed
Additionally the museum is closed on these dates:
January 1st, May 1st, June 24th, December 25-26th
How to go to Picasso Museum?
The museum sddress: Montcada Street, 15-23
Metro:
Line 1 (Red), get off at Arc de Triomf station
Line 3 (Green), get off at Liceu station
Line 4 (Yellow), get off at Jaume 1 station (this is the closest station to museum).
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Picasso Museum
website.
Science Museum
This museum is located in a beautiful modern building observing from above on Barcelona.
The building serves as a gate and as an entrance hall to this friendly museum in which the
visitor is invited to touch and feel the exhibits. To the exhibition you need to go down in
a spiral course that reminds going down to the bowels of the earth. During the course a giant tree,
brought from the Amazonas in Brazil, can be seen.
The fix exhibition reviewed the material history and is divided to four defined areas:
inert, alive, intelligent and civilized.
Also in the museum there is the geological wall that give the opportunity to come closer to
shapes and structures that were developing during hundreds of years due to water, wind etc.
processes. Another attraction is the flooded forest. This is a giant greenhouse with many animals
species and plants species in it, brought from all over the globe.
Open Hours, Activity Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00-22:00
How to go to Science Museum?
Option 1: FGC train #U7, get off Avinguda Tibidabo station.
Walk in a beautiful boulevard till its end and then turn left to the museum.
Option 2: Bus line 60.
Option 3: Taxi. The best option!
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Science Museum
website.
Barcelona Aquarium
Barcelona aquarium (L`Aquarium de Barcelona) is defenatly a huge one.
It contains over 10,000 fish species and 80 meters long tunnel with glass walls
that make it possible to watch the sharks and other water animals in there natural environment.
This is a place when children can enjoy big time.
Open Hours, Activity Hours:
July and August – 09:30-23:00
June and September and Weekends – 09:30-21:30
Rest of the year – 09:30-21:00
How to go to Barcelona Aquarium?
The Aquarium is located in d`Espanya del Port Vell Moll (Behind Maremagnum).
Option 1:
Metro: Line 3 (Green), get off at Drassanes station or Line 4 (Yellow), get off at Barceloneta station.
Option 2:
Buses: 14,17,19,36,38,39,40,45,57,59,64,91,157 and Bus Turistic
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Barcelona Aquarium
website.
Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona- MACBA
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona- MACBA
website.
Museu D'Art Modern
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Modern Art Museum
website.
Dali Museum in Figueres (Teatro-Museu Dali)
Salvador Dali’s theater museum is found in
Figueres
that found on the commercial road between Spain and France. The museum is located inside the former
municipal theater building, a building that was built in 1850, was burned during the Spanish civil
war and was renovated in 1966.
Dali decorated the museum in such a way that it will not appear as a regular structure but as a huge
surrealistic object. He added to it a huge glass dome and a wide patio and decorated every corner with
strange items. The museum is displaying a world of caprices that cause the visitors to feel sympathy or
odiousness, and definitely it does not leave them indifferent.
The motives that are repeating themselves all the time in Dali’s pictures are sex and death. Dali’s
nymphomaniac wife is staring in his works of art.
In the museum famous works of art like “The Lybrinat” and “Memory persistency”
can be seen and also a well known picture in which Dali’s sister can be seen observing out of the window.
Notes:
1) Take into account the long lines in the entrance to the museum.
2) It is recommended to arrive to the museum with a guide that can give explanations on the wired pictures.
Open Hours, Activity Hours:
November 1st – February 28th, 10:30–18:00
March 1st – June 30th, 09:30–18:00
July 1st – September 30th, 09:30–18:00
Closed on Monday.
Address:
The museum, as said before, is located in Figueres that found on the commercial road between Spain and France.
Placa Gala-Salvador Dali, 5, E-17600 Figueres.
How to go to Dali Museum?
There are guided tours starting from Catalonia Plaza.
The ride is taking 1.5 hours.
Prices:
11 Euro per person.
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Dali Museum
website.
Chocolate Museum
The chocolate museum in Barcelona is located in a building built from red bricks that once
used the sisters of the Sant agusti monastery.
Already in the entrance the smell of the addictive chocolate, being poured into white
porcelain cups can be smelled.
Museum objective:
The museum was founded, among others, as a cultured enterprise trying to root the
Open Hours, Activity Hours:
Monday-Saturday: 10:00-19:00
Sunday: 10:00-15:00
Closed on Tuesday
How to go to Chocolate Museum?
The museum address is: Comer 36.
See directions in the website.
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Chocolate Museum
website.
Catalan Museum of Archaeology
The archeological museum in Barcelona is located in an impressive building from the
1929 world exhibition days, when it was using as the graphic arts booth, but later on
it was transferred to use as a museum describing the development of the human been
from the early stone age.
How to go to Catalan Museum of Archaeology?
All arrival options to Montjuic.
Metro: get off at Espanya station and than take bus 50. It is also possible to use a tram.
Ethnological Museum
The ethnological museum displays different cultures, from far countries too, where the
sailors of Catalonia were arriving to in their marine voyages.
How to go to Ethnological Museum?
All arrival options to Montjuic.
Metro: get off at Espanya station and than take bus 50. It is also possible to use a tram.
Military Museum
This museum is located inside the old castle on top of the hill.
The museum includes a huge collection of weapons and ammunition, and also portraits of
Catalonia’s kings and marquis. In one of the rooms there are gravestones remnants from
a Jewish cemetery that was there once. It is possible to climb the stairs leading the wall
surrounding the castle, and observe from it towards the sea.
How to go to Military Museum?
All arrival options to Montjuic.
Metro: get off at Espanya station and than take bus 50. It is also possible to use a tram.
Prices:
There is an entrance fee.
Textile Museum (museu-textil-i-dindumentaria)
This museum, known also as "The clothing and textile museum"is located
in the palace of Liuo's family marquises, which turn into an historic center in the textile field.
In the museum there is a large collection of costumes, ball dresses, tablecloths, fabrics etc.
How to go to Textile Museum?
The museum is located in Montacada street, in front of the exit of Picasso museum.
Website:
For more info on the museum see the
Textile Museum
website.
Toys Museum in Figueres
Most of the people who arrive to Figueres, are doing so in order to visit the
Salvador Dali Theater Museum
(Teatro-Museu Dali).
Not far from there, in a walking distance of 5 minutes, the toys museum is located.
A museum that is worth a visit with or without kids. In the intimate exhibitions halls of the museum
an impressive collection of more than 4000 items can be seen. Part of this collection are toys of
famous and known Spanish and Catalan people. The toys are orgenized in exhibitions closets according
to different topics, and near each toy there is a label with it's production year on it.
The passage between the one hall to another is passing a culvert made of wood box coverd with glass,
and toys are placed in it.
Except for the fix exhibition there are also changed exhibitions in variety of topics.
Near the museum exit there is a little shop in which visitors can buy toys and poscards.
Open Hours, Activity Hours:
June, July, August, September:
Monday-Friday: 10:00-13:00, 16:00-19:00
Sunday and Holidays: 11:00-13:30, 17:00-19:30
October-May:
Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-13:00, 16:00-19:00
Sunday and Holidays: 11:00-13:30
Closed on Monday
How to go to Toys Museum in Figueres?
Hotel Paris, Sant Pere 1, Figueres
