Museums & exhibition centres
The MEAM is located in the Palau Gomis, a unique 18th-century neoclassical building in the Born district, which is one of Barcelona's key tourist and cultural sites.
The Fundació Joan Miró is located in Montjuïc Park in a magnificent Mediterranean-style building designed by Josep Lluís Sert, and houses the most important public collection of works by Joan Miró.
The Barcelona Botanical Gardens are located on a gentle slope in
Montjuïc Park and offer a different walk for every season of the year, through the vegetation from the five regions of the world with a Mediterranean climate.
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.
