A fun lesson for young and old, that's the Cosmocaixa natural history museum in Barcelona

Cosmocaixa is a great museum for everyone traveling to Barcelona with children. 

If there was a poll among Barcelona schoolchildren about the most popular museum in town, she would easily win it cosmocaixaThis is a natural history museum opened in 2005, which differs from its competitors in that a significant part of its permanent collection is the exhibition is interactive and it is recommended to touch the exhibits. Along with the spaces beyond At 30,000 m², it is the largest museum ever in Barcelona, ​​but also in Spain. You just have to see this!

You can tell that this is not an ordinary museum at the entrance, where, in addition to the regular employees, the information desk is occupied by a dreamy Albert Einstein, a much older Charles Darwin, and Marie Curie standing behind them.

After you pass them, you will reach the ticket offices. A ticket for the permanent exhibition for an adult costs beautiful ones €8 and if it you buy online, you will also get a smaller discountAnd children under 16 can enter the museum for free!

Albert Einstein with his colleague Charles Darwin and Marie Curie will welcome you to the information. 

To get to permanent exhibition describing the creation of the world and basic physical phenomena, you have to go down 5 floors down a spiral ramp. The lowest floor has the most to see! (If you were to peek into one of the higher floors, where you'll find a few skeletons of prehistoric animals, it would probably put you off the museum... - this is where there are mainly various events for schools or temporary exhibitions).

From the rainforest through the creation of the world to aviation and space

Over a kilometer of tropical forest with original fauna and flora. 

It is an unmissable dominant feature of the permanent exhibition a piece of the Amazon rainforest occupying more than 1 km². The primeval forest, including its impressive fauna and flora, was built with the utmost attention to detail. Behind the glass surface measuring several tens of meters, you can watch various types of fish darting before your eyes, snakes crawling along the trees and birds flying in their crowns. All this under abundant rain, as is customary in the Amazon. A truly unprecedented spectacle! I definitely recommend going through the forest from all sides (it can be bypassed), where you can see, in addition to the underwater world, terrariums with spiders, ants, cockroaches and other similar vermin. 

Dozens of amazing exhibits that are highly recommended!

The second important part of the exhibition is called Geological wall and it is an example of seven stone massifs stacked one behind the other in a so-called "geological wall", which shows how certain types of rocks are formed. And again, this is no small exhibition - each massif is several square meters and all together weigh more than 90 tons. 

Cosmocaixa is a somewhat unusual museum. The exhibits are interactive.

The previous part is followed by exhibitions of various insects, plants, animals and fauna and flora in general. The goal is clear - to clearly show how life developed on Earth.

Reach out and you'll understand how it works.

At all but the most attractive are the interactive exhibits, of which there are several dozen in the ground floor of the museum. Using them, you can learn more about the principle of basic physical phenomena in an attractive way - for example, how gravity or centrifugal force works, how sound or light propagates in different environments, you will learn why airplanes can fly and many other interesting things. A popular gem is a block of ice the size of a smaller car, into which you can engrave your name...

You may end up spending much more time in the museum than you originally intended. The exhibits are truly captivating, and if you have a little child's soul in you, you will be able to play with them for long minutes.

The moment you stop having fun, there's nothing better than getting married. back up to the spacious yard. Here you can have a snack or lunch (there is a café and a restaurant) and observe the lively activity of some of the schools that visited Cosmocaixa with you. I definitely recommend setting aside at least 3-4 hours for your visit, you won't regret it. 

In addition to the permanent exhibition, the planetarium, where the projection of 3D films about the creation of the universe is included in the price of admission, is also worth seeing. Most of them are in Catalan, but the staff at the entrance will be happy to lend you translation devices that you can use to tune into the English translation.

Cosmocaixa is simply a place that every time you do We are going to Barcelona with the children, we must not miss. If you have children too, take them here and you and they will definitely not be bored!