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Catalunya History Museum
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This museum treats the historical position of the Catalan regions. So it contains both today's country borders and the northern Catalonia which is part of France now.
It´s collection leads us into the Prähistorik from which the first human finds are on the Catalan ground. The human remains of the first 450,000 years old homo Erectus were found in Talteüll. The journey then goes on to the Iberians, romans etc., in the Bronze Age. The impressive archeological material from these periods is arranged terrifically and creates a good insight.
The exhibition also treats the influence of the Mediterranean as a connection to other culturs. The beginning of the king empire, late then the renaissance, the industrial revolution and the Modernismo - the Catalan Art Nouveau.
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Pl. de Pau Vila, 3 (Palau de Mar) Metro L4 (yellow) Barceloneta
Bus 14, 17, 19, 36, 39, 40, 45, 51, 57, 59, 64 and 157
Opening Times / Days: Tuesday until Saturday 10 - 19 h. Wednesday 10 - 20 h. Sundays and bank holiday 10 - 14,30 h. Monday closed.
Closed at 25. und 26. December, and January 1. and 6. Tel. 93 225 47 00 | 93 225 47 26 | 93 225 47 32
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CosmoCaixa
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This new and unusual museum is called the best science museum of Europe. CosmoCaixa Barcelona offers various contents and an innovative Lay out, that makes it to one of the most modern museums of this type. The new building with 50,000 m2 of exhibition area increases the scientific supply of the previous museum.
The exibitions are divided up into different rooms. For example the Amazon woods, the geological wall, the planetarium etc. Visitors can play a part in scientific experiments. The visit becomes a rich and funny experience with that. Particularly recommendable for children. The museum is worthy of more as a visit and it is even free until January 9th, 2005.
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Teodor Roviralta, 47-51
08022, Barcelona Autobus: 17, 22, 58, 60, 73, 75. Opening hours/days: Opened on Tuesday until Sunday by 10 to 20 H. Monday closed (apart from special days) . Closed December 25th and January 1st.
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Picasso Museum
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The Picasso museum is located in a little minor road of the Calle Princesa near the metro station Jaume I. in a medieval palace.
The exhibition is ordered in a chronological consequence. It starts with impressive works as of the year 1890 when Picasso was still a teenager and lived and studied in Barcelona. Further halls treat the different periods of his artistic development. The last two rooms contain abstract paintings which he created shortly before his death in 1973. The museum also houses an excellent collection of his pressure and ceramics.
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C. Montcada, 15*23 Next Metro-Station is Jaume I - line 4 Price:
5 EUR Opening time / Days:
from Tuesday until Saturday of 10.00 -- 20.00 and Sunday from 10.00 -- 15.00
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Historical museum of the city of Barcelona
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In reality the historical museum of the town consists of 4 museums which are distributed in the town:
the museum complex of the Plaça Del Rei, the cloister museum of Pedralbes, the museum of Verdaguer and the museum of the Parc Güell.
The historical museum of the town and the cloister of Pedralbes are probably the most interesting.
The historical museum of the town is located in the ancient palace Palau Comtal near the cathedral. The impressive collection can be seen in a chronological sequence. Of archeological objects and excavations from the Roman Age to more modern pieces like the original bomb which partly destroyed the opera house Liceu in the year 1893.
The Pedralbes cloister is located in the upper part of the town in one of the noble quarters of the town. The cloister and the works of art are worth a visit. It is a collection of paintings and objects, which stands in the closest connection with the cloister and his residents.
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Historical museum of the town: Plaça Del Rei s/n
Pedralbes cloister: Baixada Del Monestir, 9
Historical museum of the town: next metro station: L4, the museum lies Jaume I near the cathedral.
Pedralbes cloister: next metro station: María Cristina L3. From there the busses 63 / 78 . The bus 63 leaves also of the Plaça Universitat (metro Universitat L1 and L2) near the Plaça Catalunya.
Prices: Composite ticket for the 4 facilities: EUR 4 opening hours/days:
October 1st until May 31st: Tuesday until Saturday 10 - 14 H and 16 - 20 H, Sundays and bank holiday: 10 - 15 H.
June 1st until September 30th: Tuesday until Saturday 10 - 20 H, Sundays and bank holiday 10 - 15 H.
Closed on Mondays and holidays
Historical museum: 93 315 11 11 / Pedralbes cloister: 93 203 92 82
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Catalan national museum
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The national palace lies at the foot of the Montjuïc and directly above the Plaza España and is described as the most important art museum of Barcelona.
It contains a large collection of medieval art from the Romance and Gothischen period.
Many of the frescos were collected and brought here by the population out of Romance churches of the region.
People had been annoyed at the political association of the church with Madrid and protected the works of art with that from the arsons.
Except for frescos and paintings you find statues, wood carvings and other pieces for the religious use here.
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Palau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc Metro L3 und L1, Espanya.
FGC Plaça de Espanya.
Funicular (Seilbahn) Paral·lel - Montjuïc, Metro Paral·lel L2 und L3
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Maritime Museum
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The museum is at the lower end of the Ramblas, housed in one of the most important civilian Gothic buildings of the world.
It is an excellent museum not only due to his exhibits but also due to the way of the exhibition of his exhibits.
A gigantic choice of treasures of the voyage, among other things model ships houses instruments, nautical charts and tables.
The virtual exhibition "Sea adventure" which can be seen in all important European languages is particularly interesting.
Slip into the skin of a slave on a galley of Don Juan de Austria, exceed a corvette with aim Cuba or feel how one felt inside the first historical submarine.
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Avenida Les Drassanes s/n metro Drassanes L3 opening hours/days:
Monday -- Sunday 10.00-19.00, July until September from 10.00-23.00.
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