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Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí

Art, Museums

Located in the 15th-century Palau Nadal, this world-class collection of pre-Columbian art was ceded to Barcelona in 1996 by the Barbier-Mueller Museum in...

C/Montcada 14

Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya

Museums

The time frame for this archaeology collection starts with the Palaeolithic period, and there are relics of Greek, Punic, Roman and Visigothic colonisers,...

Passeig de Santa Madrona 39-41

Museu de Ciències Naturals (Natural History Museum)

Museums

The Natural History Museum is split between Domènech i Montaner's turreted Castell dels Tres Dragons and the nearby Museu Martorell, housing the zoology and...

Passeig Picasso

Museu del Calçat (Shoe Museum)

Museums

Housed in what was once part of the medieval shoemakers' guild premises, this quirky little museum details the cobbler's craft, from practical Roman sandals...

Plaça Sant Felip Neri 5

Museu d'Història de Barcelona (MUHBA)

Critics' choice
Museums

Stretching from the Plaça del Rei to the cathedral are some 4,000sq m (43,000sq ft) of subterranean Roman excavations - streets, villas and storage vats for...

Plaça del Rei 1

Museu d'Història de Catalunya

Museums

With exhibits spanning from the Lower Paleolithic era right up to Jordi Pujol's proclamation as President of the Generalitat in 1980, the Catalan History...

Plaça Pau Vila 3

Museu Egipci de Barcelona

Museums

One of the finest collections of Ancient Egyptian artefacts in Europe, this collection is owned by prominent Egyptologist Jordi Clos and spans 3,000 years...

C/València 284

Museu Etnològic

Museums

The Ethnology Museum houses a vast collection of items, from Australian Aboriginal boomerangs to rugs and jewellery from Afghanistan, although by far the...

Passeig de Santa Madrona s/n

Museu Frederic Marès

Critics' choice
Museums

Kleptomaniac and general magpie Frederic Marès (1893-1991) 'collected' everything he laid his hands on, from hairbrushes to opera glasses and gargoyles....

Plaça Sant Iu 5-6

Palau Güell

Attractions, Museums

A fortress-like edifice shoehorned into a narrow six-storey sliver, the Palau Güell was Gaudí's first major commission, begun in 1886 for textile baron...

C/Nou de la Rambla 3-5
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Refugi 307

Attractions, Museums

Around 1,500 Barcelona civilians were killed during the air bombings of the Civil War, a fact that the government long silenced. Poble Sec was hit...

C/Nou de la Rambla 169