Museums

If you are visiting Spain and specially Catalonia its good to know something about the history of the area to understand it  better. Therefore it is advisable to explore the museum of Catalonia. It is a huge building in Barceloneta district near Port Vell (the old port) with a lot of different exhibitons.

The building itself is impressive and huge. There are three floors of permanent exhibition and one floor of temporary exhibition. You can find out there when and how Catalunia province was born, who where the first people here and how the area has developed from early days to our days. There a lot things to see and there are built some duplicates of old buildings where you can go inside. There is also library with catalan literature and there are a lot information about catalan language. Its simply "a mecca" for catalan culture.

In total it is a really nice museum and you can easily spend few hours there. When you get tired of the museum you can go for a dinner or have a cup of coffee on the roof terrace and enjoy marvelous Mediterranean panorama.

Address & Contact

• Pl. de Pau Vila, 3 (Palau de Mar)
  08003 BARCELONA (Barcelonès)
• Telephone numbers
  93 225 47 00 | 93 225 47 26 | 93 225 47 32
  Fax
  93 225 47 58
  E-mail
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Opening times

• From Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm.
• Wednesdays from 10 am to 8 pm.
• Sundays and public holidays from 10 am to 2.30 pm.
• Mondays closed (except public holidays).
• Closed on 25 and 26 December and 1 and 6 January.

Admission charges