This interpretation centre is located in a 14th-century building known as the House of the Rabbi or Alchemist, in the heart of Barcelona’s old Jewish Quarter. It is one of the few buildings in the area whose original period features survive intact.

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The Centre d’Interpretació is located inside one of the gatehouses of the Park Güell, and was designed to give a greater understanding of Gaudí’s work: a wonderful amalgam of architecture and nature.

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Beneath the Gothic Quarter’s landmark square in Barcelona lies an impressive archaeological site, the Conjunt Monumental de la Plaça del Rei, which offers visitors a glimpse of what the Roman colony of Barcino was like.

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This archaeological site is located in the basement of the Santa Caterina Market and seeks to provide an insight into the development of this area of the city from prehistoric times to the present day.

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The museum is dedicated to the memory of Jacint Verdaguer, one of the leading authors of the Catalan Renaixença period, and occupies two floors of the Vil·la Joana, an 18th-century farmhouse on the Collserola Ridge.

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Barcelona's Museu-Monestir de Pedralbes is considered to be one of the finest examples of Catalan Gothic architecture and allows us to see the artistic legacy preserved by the community of nuns from the Order of Saint Clare throughout the centuries and to find out about the way they live.

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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.

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The museum opened in 1996 in Barcelona with the aim of disseminating the history of Catalonia. It is housed in the former general warehouse in the old port, the Port Vell, which was built in 1901 and is known as the Palau del Mar.

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The Museu de la Música opened in March 2007 at the concert hall, L’Auditori de Barcelona, with the aim of showing its visitors how music has developed in time and space, from its origins to the present day.

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The Fundació Arqueològica Clos - Museu Egipci de Barcelona is one of Europe’s foremost private collections of Egyptian art and culture, and an organisation committed to research and the study and dissemination of Ancient Egypt.

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Far from Barcelona centre, the Capuchin Convent in Sarrià is the home of the Museu Etnogràfic Andino-Amazònic.

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Located in Montjuïc Park, Barcelona's Museu Etnològic is a space for dialogue and intercultural understanding in Barcelona city.

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The Museum Marítim is located by the waterfront in one of Barcelona’s finest landmark buildings: the Reials Drassanes, the medieval shipyards which are a unique example of civic Gothic architecture.

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