What is there
to see?

On the 3rd floor of the Arenas shopping center, located in a former bullring, the third branch of IKONO has been permanently established. After those in Madrid and Rome, we were curious to visit and compare.

IKONO offers interactive sensory experiences that encourage communal enjoyment.

In Barcelona, you’ll find 11 different rooms on one floor, experienced in a circular tour. It’s best to leave jackets and bags in the cloakroom. You’ll see why in the first room: a pool full of balls!

It’s not just children who are excited here; adults are too. You can slide down into the balls (well, only if you’re wearing clothes suitable for sliding), completely immerse yourself, and be surrounded by balls. Getting up afterward isn’t that easy. There’s even a small platform for jumping in. The room is kept dark with changing, colorful lighting – very nice!

In the next room, you’ll encounter a robotic dog! It dances, jumps, and follows you around. From this room, three more rooms branch off – don’t miss any of them because all three are wonderful!

Firstly, there’s a colorful room where the floor, ceiling, and walls have the same wallpaper. Grab one of the coats and “disappear” into the wall 😉 Here, you can create fantastic photo opportunities! It’s all about camouflage!

Back to the central room and into the next adventure! Because from here, you can also enter the Light Painting area. In four booths, you can use your phone’s flashlight to draw a figure over the photo that’s taken of you. You only have three attempts, and you can have the best one sent to you via email. It’s trickier than you might think, but it’s fun, and the digital souvenir is a nice extra. We conjured up the Museos logo – can you recognize it?

After so much sensory stimulation, the next world is quite soothing: a dark room filled with yellow lanterns that multiply infinitely thanks to mirrors. Very calming and beautifully simple. It doesn’t always take “bling-bling” to make an impression.

Unfortunately, the coherence of the rooms is somewhat lost as we pass through a somewhat uninspired “space” (?) corridor to an entirely undecorated corridor (the shopping center’s emergency exit).

Afterward, there’s an area with many hanging, colorful fabric and glitter strips. It’s fun to get lost in them (be careful not to bump into other visitors!), but the overall impression is a bit lacking.

Further on, there are rooms with brightly lit partition walls, confetti showers, cubes that provide a light show synchronized with the really good music, a room with computer games, and a sexy bathroom!

All in all, plenty of subjects to take funny photos and, as mentioned at the beginning, to experience something together.