List of museums in Barcelona
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Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
(Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
, Spain
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) and in its surrounding metropolitan area.
Barcelona proper
- Archaeology Museum of Barcelona (MAC)
- Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)Barcelona Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art is situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in El Raval, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Spain. The museum opened to the public on November 28, 1995. Its current director is Bartomeu Marí . Previous directors were Daniel Giralt-Miracle , Miguel Molins , Manuel J...
- Caixafòrum BarcelonaCosmoCaixa BarcelonaCosmoCaixa Barcelona is a science museum located in Barcelona, Spain. Formerly known as the Science Museum of Barcelona, it closed for renovations in 1998 and reopened in 2004 under its current name. The museum features a variety of exhibitions, permanent and temporary, that showcase the...
- Casa Àsia
- Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (CASM)Centre d'Art Santa MònicaCentre d'Art Santa Mònica, sometimes shortened as CASM, is a public museum of contemporary art in Barcelona opened in 1988. It's located in the Raval side of Rambla de Santa Mònica . It has no permanent collection but it hosts a number of travelling expositions of contemporary Spanish and...
- Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)Centre de Cultura Contemporània de BarcelonaThe Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona is one of the most visited exhibition and arts centres in the city of Barcelona.Situated in the Raval district, the Centre’s core theme is the city and urban culture...
- Cosmocaixa BarcelonaCosmoCaixa BarcelonaCosmoCaixa Barcelona is a science museum located in Barcelona, Spain. Formerly known as the Science Museum of Barcelona, it closed for renovations in 1998 and reopened in 2004 under its current name. The museum features a variety of exhibitions, permanent and temporary, that showcase the...
(former Museu de la Ciència de Barcelona) - Espai Gaudí (La Pedrera)
- Fundació Antoni TàpiesFundació Antoni TàpiesThe Fundació Antoni Tàpies is a cultural center and museum, located in Carrer d'Aragó, in Barcelona, Catalonia , dedicated mainly to the life and works of the painter Antoni Tàpies....
- Olympic and Sports Museum Joan Antoni SamaranchOlympic and Sports Museum Joan Antoni SamaranchThe Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum opened in 2007 at the Olympic Ring in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum is located in front of the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium at the Montjuïc hill...
- Fundació Joan MiróFundació Joan MiróThe ' is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró and located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia.-History:...
- Fundació Suñol
- FC Barcelona MuseumFC Barcelona MuseumThe FC Barcelona museum was inaugurated on 24 September 1984 under the presidency of Josep Lluís Nuñez. In 2000 the museum was renamed President Nuñez museum under the presidency of his successor, Joan Gaspart...
- Gracia Arts ProjectGracia Arts ProjectThe Gracia Arts Project is a publicly supported non-profit organization and non-governmental organization established by Justin Donlon, James Wardell, and on January 1, 2000 in Barcelona, Spain, to benefit all the arts with a view to share information, ideas, collaborate and actively pursue...
- Institut Botànic de Barcelona
- Jardí Botànic de BarcelonaJardí Botànic de BarcelonaThe Botanical garden of Barcelona is a botanical garden in the Montjuïc hill of Barcelona set amongst a number of stadiums used in the Summer Olympic Games of 1992. Although a botanic garden had been established in Barcelona as early as 1888, the current gardens date from 1999...
- Palau Reial de PedralbesPalau reial de pedralbesThe Palau Reial de Pedralbes is a building placed in the middle of an ample garden in the district of Les Corts, in Barcelona. From 1919 until 1931 it was the residence for the Spanish Royal Family when they visited the city...
- Museu de Ceràmica
- Museu de les Arts Decoratives
- Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària
- Museu d'Autòmates
- Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art PrecolombíMuseu Barbier-Mueller d'Art PrecolombíThe Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí is a museum devoted to a collection of artefacts and the artistic legacy of the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas, located in the Catalonian capital of Barcelona, Spain...
- Museu del Calçat
- Museu de Cera de Barcelona
- Museu de Ciències de Barcelona
- Museu del Clavegueram
- Museu del Còmic i la Il·lustració
- Museu Egipci de Barcelona
- Museu de l'Eròtica de Barcelona
- Museu Etnològic de Barcelona
- Museu Frederic Marès
- Museu Gaudí
- Museu de Geologia
- Museu d'Història de Catalunya
- Museu d'Història de la Ciutat
- Centre d'Interpretació del Park Güell
- Museu Marítim
- Museu Militar de Barcelona (closed May 2009)
- Museu de la Música de Barcelona
- National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC)Museu Nacional d'Art de CatalunyaThe Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya , abbreviated as MNAC, is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia. It is housed in the Palau Nacional, built for the 1929 World's Fair...
- Museu del Perfum - Fundació Planas Giralt
- Museu PicassoMuseu PicassoThe Museu Picasso in Barcelona, Spain, has one of the most extensive collections of artworks by the 20th century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. This is one of the most popular and most visited museums in Barcelona. The museum is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces in Barcelona's La Ribera.The...
- Museu Taurí
- Museu de la XocolataMuseu de la XocolataMuseu de la Xocolata is a private museum in Barcelona, Spain, owned by the Gremi de Pastisseria de Barcelona ....
- Museu de Zoologia
- Palau de la Virreina
- Palau RobertPalau RobertPalau Robert is a building on Barcelona's Passeig de Gràcia 107, the former private residence of Robert Robert i Surís, an influential aristocrat, politician and businessman at the turn of the 20th century...
- Sala Ciutat
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
- Centre Cultural Barradas
- Centre Cultural La Bòbila
- Centre Cultural Metropolità Tecla Sala
- Museu d'Història de L'Hospitalet
Sabadell
- Museu d'Art de Sabadell (MAS)
- Museu d'Eines Agrícoles
- Museu d'Història de Sabadell (MHS)
- Museu de L'Institut Paleontològic Miquel Crusafont
Terrassa
- Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil
- Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya (MNACTEC)
- Museu de Terrassa
- Castell Cartoixa de Vallparadís
- Torre del Palau - Centre d'Interpretació de la Vila
See also
- Culture of BarcelonaCulture of BarcelonaBarcelona's culture stems from the city's 2000 years of history. To a greater extent than the rest of Catalonia, where Catalonia's native Catalan is more dominant, Barcelona is a bilingual city: Catalan and Spanish are both official languages and widely spoken...
- List of libraries in Barcelona
- List of markets in Barcelona
- List of theatres and concert halls in Barcelona