Museums & exhibition centres
CaixaForum, the Cultural Centre of "La Caixa" Foundation, is housed in one of Barcelona's landmark buildings, the Casaramona textile mill, a jewel of industrial modernista architecture designed by
Josep Puig i Cadafalch.
The CCCB is one of the major infrastructures from the 1990s. All its activities focus on the theme of the city and urban phenomena, analysed from every point of view and cultural discipline.
The Museu de la Xocolata was set up in the year 2000 as an initiative of Barcelona's Confectioners' Guild, and is housed in a building of great historic importance, the former Convent of Sant Agustí in Barcelona.
Located in the iconic
Raval neighbourhood, the MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona) is one of the city's top cultural attractions. The MACBA, which has been awarded
Museum of National Interest status by the
Catalan government, has become a meeting point for lovers of contemporary art, stimulating creativity and the imagination.
The Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya is housed in the former
Barcelona's Palace of Graphic Arts on Montjuïc, which was built for the 1929 International Exhibition. The museum takes visitors back in time to discover the distant roots of Catalonia's history while giving an insight into the lives of different related cultures from other areas of the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean.
