City History Museum
City History Museum
Barcelona City History Museum
ROMAN RUINS & MORE
The museum is a little adventure trip through Roman and Medieval times. The elevator first takes you down to the ancient “Barcino” and then back up to medieval Barcelona.
My Rating:
The positives:
You can see some unusual things here at a low price! The underground museum is a little adventure trip through Roman and medieval times. The audio guide is included in the price of admission.
The negatives:
Audio guide only for the Roman part of the museum, the Medieval part has annotations in English.
Last Modified: 24.01.2024 | Céline
City History Museum
Tickets
The details
at a glance
Prices
EUR 5 for adults and young peoples under the age of 29, senior citizens over the age of 65, Groups over 10 persons,
free admission for children under the age of 16 and first Sunday of a month, every Sunday after 3:00 p.m.
Passes
Free entry with the Barcelona Card
Available for 3, 4 or 5 days.
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Free entry with the Arqueoticket
4 museums included
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Barcelona City History Museum
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What is there
to see?
A museum, a little subterranean adventure, a trip through time. That’s one way to describe this museum, which is part of the MUHBA museums of city history.
You start off by entering the courtyard of a gothic urban palace, followed by a ride in the elevator from “Barcelona” to the Roman city of “Barcino”. Below the streets and buildings of Barcelona, you can walk along old Barcino on a set of footbridges. You’ll pass the remainders of an old Roman bath and some dye-works, go through a wine cellar and an ancient fish processing place.
At the end, you rise into medieval Barcelona, where you can see a few of the old chambers of the former royal palace: The king’s chamber, “Sala Tinell”, and the royal chapel, “Santa Agatha”.
Get to know Barcelona from a different perspective!
Barcelona City History Museum
A bit of History
Barcelona was founded in 218 B.C. as the settlement “Barcino” and converted into a military settlement under Emperor Augustus (around 10 B.C.). It became part of the city of Tarragona in the course of the conversion.
In the 1930s, when the Gothic palace “Casa Padellàs” was obstructing the expansion of the Via Laietana, it was simply moved, stone by stone, to its current place on the Plaça del Rei – it was not until then that these old Roman ruins were even found in the first place! The archeological digs and assessment of artifacts that followed took ten years.
Today, these ruins and parts of the medieval palace can be explored by visitors.
Official website of the MUHBA-Museums (EN): bcn.cat/museuhistoriaciutat
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