The Museu Blau, the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona, forms part of the Natural History Museum of Barcelona and it is located in the Forum precinct, the new area of Barcelona at beginning of the most important street of the whole city: Avinguda Diagonal.
The other two cultural centres which compose the Museum are located in the zone of Ciutadella Park (the Martorell Museum and the Laboratory of the Nature) and in Montjuic (Botanical Garden, Botanical Institute and Historic Botanical Garden.
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| Museu Blau, the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona |
History of the museum
Hall of the Museum
The museum has been inaugurated in 2011 and covers a total surface of 9000m2, offering space for permanent and temporary exhibitions. It has become a new cultural icon for Barcelona. It is an innovative centre that combines scientific rigor with popular science, recreation with learning about nature, and leisure with a serious look at today’s environmental issues. The spectacular building where it is hosted is designed by the architects Herzog and Meuron for the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures. The same architects projected and realized all the interior part of the building when, some years later, it was decided to house the Museum.
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| Museu Blau, the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona |
Exhibitions and activities
The most important permanent exhibition featured by this museum is called Planet Life, which covers 3000m2 of the museum and which is divided in 3 different sections:
Gaia’ s Biography: It is a count of the history of our planet from the origins until now. It follows a timeline that traces the co-evolution of biology and geology, depicting the vast changes in the Earth’s surface and the great evolutionary leaps in the history of our world. Thanks to the multimedia effects we are taken back to the earliest days of our planet.
Present-day Heart: It shows how our planet is today and how it has changed during the years through the world of fossils, rocks, animals, plants, seaweed, minerals, fungis and microbes.
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Islands of science: Complements the visit by looking at various topics associated with nature and its relationship with human beings. The ‘Islands of Science’ are small, semi-permanent, monographic displays that cover a variety of topics such as evolution, nomenclature and classification, the Mediterranean, animal behavior, reproduction, conservation, ecology, natural resources, and genetics.
This permanent exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the evolution of our planet and the history of life.
In the museum lots of temporary exhibition are shown as Poisoned, a world of Nature’s venoms exhibitions where people can discover the workings and the uses of poisons in the animal world.
Dates
From 19th December 2013 till 1st March 2015
Practical Information
One of the animal collections of the museum
Address: Pl. Leonardo da Vinci, 4-5 (Edifici Fòrum)
Phone: 932 566 002
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| Museu Blau, the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona |
How to get there: Metro: L4 stop Maresme-Fòrum.| Bus: 7, 36, 141, 143 and H16.| Tram: T4 stop Fòrum.| Barcelona Bus Turístic: stop Fòrum.
Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday: from 10 to 19 h
Sunday and public holidays: from 10 to 20 h
The Museum will be closed on January 1st, May 1st, June 24th, and December 25th. It will also be closed on Mondays (except public holidays).
Prices
Admission fees: General admission: 6 €
Reduced admission: 2.70 €
Combined admission fee for Museu Blau and Botanical Garden: 7 €
Reduced combined fee: 5 €
Free admission on special days: Every Sunday from 15 h and the first Sunday of every month
February 12th, May 18th, September 24th.
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