Barcelona, cradle of art and site of leisure, has a most complete and attractive cultural offer with more than 50 museums and cultural centers. If you feel inclined to make a cultural tour of the city, these are some of the most prominent museums.

You can purchase a single entry ticket to visit these 7 art centers for 20 € on the following web page: www.articketbcn.org.

Please click on the name of each museum to obtain detailed information of it.
		1. Picasso Museum 2. Caixa Catalunya Foundation (La Pedrera) 3. Antoni Tàpies Foundation 4. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum)- MACBA 5. Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (Barcelona Contemporary Culture Center)- CCCB 6. Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña (National Art Museum of Catalonia)- MNAC Palau Nacional. 7. Joan Miró Foundation

The Spanish Village (Pueblo Español): It was built in the year 1929 as the pavilion devoted to art within the framework of the Barcelona International Exhibition. From its inception, it was designed as an actual “village” in the heart of a city. It displays scale reproductions of 117 buildings, streets and squares typical of the main Spanish towns. For more information: www.poble-espanyol.com

CaixaForum: CaixaForum has become a landmark of Barcelona owing to the fact that the building – a jewel of Barcelona’s industrial heritage - is open to the public and has housed exhibitions devoted to artists such as Dalí, Rodin, Freud, Turner, Fragonard, Hogarth or Cartier-Bresson, as well as concerts, conferences, literary events and multimedia art events, and many other activities. For more information: http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/centros/caixaforumbcnbuilding_en.html

CosmoCaixa (Barcelona Science Museum): Like many other science museums, the interactive exhibitions on the world of nature and science organized all through the year are its main point of interest. Very interesting for children. The planetarium is also open to the public. For more information: http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/centros/cosmocaixabcninfo_es.html

La Caixa Foundation / Casa Macaya: La Caixa Foundation / Casa Macaya is an exhibition center in the modernist building La Casa Macaya, by Josep Puig i Cadafalch. For more information: www.urbipedia.org/index.php/Casa_Macaya

Aquarium: L’Aquàrium of Barcelona is the most important educational and recreational maritime centre in the World devoted to the Mediterranean area. A total of 35 exhibits, 11,000 animals belonging to 450 different species, a 80-meter-long underwater tunnel, 6 million liters of water, and an immense oceanarium, the only one of its kind in Europe, make this centre a unique spectacle and a recreational landmark visited by more than 14 million people. For more information: www.aquariumbcn.com

Maritime Museum: The Maritime Museum is housed in the Drassanes Reials of Barcelona, the largest gothic civil building in the World, which puts one in mind a cathedral rather than a dockyard. Needless to mention, the museum tells the history of the city as defined by its relationship with the sea using all sorts of interactive audiovisual media and tools. For more information: www.museumaritimbarcelona.com

Museo de historia de la ciudad (City History Museum): www.museuhistoria.bcn.es/indexeng.htm

Museo catalán de arqueología (Archeology Museum of Catalonia): www.mac.es/engxINDEX.htm

Museo egipcio (Egypt Museum): www.museuegipci.com

Museo Barbier-Mueller (Pre-Columbian Art): www.barbier-mueller.ch/eng/barcelona.html

Museo de la cerámica (Ceramics Museum): www.museuceramica.bcn.es

Museo de artes decorativas (Decorative Arts Museum): www.museuartsdecoratives.bcn.es

Museo etnológico (Museum of Ethnology): www.museuetnologic.bcn.es

Museo textil y de indumentaria (Garment and Textile Museum): www.museutextil.bcn.es

Museo Frederic Mares: www.museumares.bcn.es

Museo Fútbol Club Barcelona (Barcelona Football Club Museum) – Camp Nou: www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/club/club_avui/territori_barca/museu/museu.html