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Most popular museums in Bcn
The Sagrada Familia is the most visited tourist attraction in Barcelona catering to over 2,000,000 visitors a year. It is a work of immense proportions and is revered by the World of Architecture as one of the most original and ambitious modern buildings.
As you can see the building is still under construction and won't be completed for another 20 / 25 years. Construction started on the Sagrada Familia in 1882.
La Pedrera is another of Gaudi's creations and is the 2nd most visited of the museums in Barcelona after the Sagrada Familia.
La Padrera has to be one of the most unusual apartment building's ever built. At the time potential tenants were reluctant to hire the rooms because the walls were irregularly shaped and they were concerned that their furniture would not fit. Today La Pedrera is one of the most important museums in Barcelona and also houses renaissance drawings and a collection of modern art paintings.
Ever since Joan Gamper founded the FC Barcelona in 1899 the club has seen a steady increase in its membership (currently it stands at over 100,000 members worldwide). The blue-red team colours and the Camp Nou, the giant Barça stadium that seats 120,000 spectators, have become symbols to legions of fans.
The museum is divided into different sections. One section brings together the Barça past in terms of photographs, audio-visual material, athletic items and all the trophies the club has won over the course of its history. The most significant trophy is, without a doubt, the Europa Cup that the FC Barcelona won in 1992. Coincidentally, this happened to be the same year that the city hosted the Olympic Games.
Museo Centro de Cultura Contemporánea (CCCB)
Exhibitions and contemporary art events in a building which perfectly combines the ancient and the modern.
Opening hours in Summer: Tuesday to Saturday: 11am - 8pm;
Sundays & holidays: 11am - 7pm;
Mondays except holidays: closedOpening hours in Winter: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 11am - 2pm & 4pm - 8pm;
Wednesday & Saturday: 11am - 8pm;Sundays & holidays: 11am - 7pm;
Monday except holidays: closed.
Telephone: 93 306 4100
Address: Montalegre, 5 (next to MACBA)
Metro: Liceu (L3)
Museo de Historia de Catalunya
If you want to know about the development of Barcelona from Roman times through Medieval to the present day, this is the place for you. Within the museum you can see part of the original Roman foundations of the city and part of the walls which surrounded the city. The museum encompasses the remains of an VIII century palace and other buildings such as the Royal Palace and the magnificent Saló Tinell, in which exhibitions are held.
Note: In summer there are guided tours from 10:00pm until midnight, rounded off with a glass of cava.
Situated at the bottom of Las Ramblas, in the most important civilian gothic building in the world. A unique museum outstanding not only for what it displays but also for the way it displays. Houses an extensive range of nautical treasures including model ships, instruments, maps and charts. The virtual reality exhibition Sea Adventure, in all major European languages, lets visitors imagine life as a galley slave on the Don Juan of Austria, stride the stormy decks of a Cuban-bound corvette and experience what it would have been like in the bowels of the first submarine in history.
Museo de arqueologia de Catalunya
The Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (MAC) is created by the Museum Act (1990). It offers permanent exhibits of archaeological relics which illustrate the evolution of Catalonia and its environment during Prehistory and Ancient History. The museum includes the present sites in Barcelona, Girona, Empúries, Ullastret, Olèrdola as well as the Underwater Archaeology Centre of Catalonia (CASC).
The Salvador Dalí Museum is the permanent home of the world's most comprehensive collection of the renowned Spanish artist's work. Compiled by the A. Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Morse over a 45-year period, it is celebrated for its 96 oil paintings.
With oils spanning from 1917 through 1970, the collection provides an excellent overview of Dalí's major themes and symbols. Characterized by its diversity, it includes the Impressionist and Cubist styles of his early period, abstract work from his transition to Surrealism, the famous surrealist canvases for which he is best known, and examples of his preoccupation with religion and science during his classic period.
