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The Museu d’Història de la Ciutat de Barcelona (MUHBA) was inaugurated in 1943 and is situated at the Plaça del Rei in the old city centre. The Plaça del Rei is not to be confused with Plaça Reial that’s situated at the Ramblas. The initiator and also first director of this museum was the historian Agustí Duran i Sanpere. The present museum complex in fact consists out of three buildings: the Casa Padellàs, the Capella de Santa Àgata and the Palau Reial Major.

 

To arrange a city-trip with kids is sometimes difficult, but in Barcelona there fortunately are a lot of attractions focused on the youngest. There are even a few museums that are perfectly capable for a visit with children. Let’s take a look at these two: the CosmoCaixa and the Museu d’Història de Catalunya.

 

The new Rock museum, the museum where Barcelona has waited for so long, is established in the new shopping centre Las Arenas and opens its doors this week’s Friday, the 1st of April. In the museum you can watch all kinds of rock relics, take for example the first guitar of John Lennon and the wedding dress of Madonna worn at her ‘Like a Virgin’ Tour. The museum has 4 rooms. Room 1 takes you back to the origins with figures like Bill Haley, Johnny Cash and the ‘king’ himself Elvis Presley.

 

The Cosmo Gallery is well known in Barcelona. It is actually a fun concept because it consist out of 2 seperate parts, you have a gallery and a cafe. The gallery offers the artists to show and present their work while spectators can chill in the cafe to enjoy some nice drinks and tapas. The two parts are separated but unified by their interior design.

 

A favorite spot for many to drink a glass is the summer terrace of the Frederic Marès Museum. It is situated on a unique location in the old centre of Barcelona, in Barri Gòtic, right next to the Cathedral, on Plaça de Sant lu 5-6. The terrace is opened every day from April until September, from 10.00 till 22.00.

 

Since the 27th of March 2011 the Museum of natural sciences moved from a building in Parc de la Ciutadella to a modern complex of 9000m2 in Fòrum, near the sea. It also suddenly got a new name: Museu Blau, which means Blue Museum. The collection of the museum contains zoological, geological and botanical material that was being collected during the 132 years of existence of the Museum.

 

The imagination, ideas, creativity and conquering the fear to accomplish new projects, is one of the goals of the new Museu d’Idees i Invents de Barcelona (MiBa, Museum of Ideas and Inventions), that yesterday was opened in Barcelona. The museum is established in the old political building of two parties in the Gothic quarter, just behind the city-hall. It maintains its old structure and style but it will be filled with different modern design elements.

 

Josep Suñol's work has been exhibited in a non-profit gallery on Passeig de Gracia. His work is hopefully going to be there on a permanent basis whilst still being rearranged form time to time to change the dynamic among his paintings. Some of his work is exhibitied chronologically while others have been carfully posititoned to incite dialogue between his different pieces of art.

 

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