Egyptian Museum of Barcelona
Inaugurated in 1994 on Valencia Street in Las Ramblas, the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona is the work of the prominent hotel businessman Jordi Clos Llombart, who owned an important collection of pieces from ancient Egypt and decided to create a museum space that exhibited and disseminated this immense archaeological wealth, becoming the first Egyptian museum in Spain.
The museum has impressive facilities that exceed 2,000 square meters of exhibition area. It operates permanently, opening an average of 362 days a year.
It is divided into three floors, the first two with permanent exhibitions and the third for traveling exhibitions, as well as educational and training classrooms equipped with state-of-the-art digital and computer technology and a superb library housing more than 10,000 documents and pages.
The collection, which initially included 70 pieces from Jordi Clos Llombart's personal collection, contains more than 1,100 pieces and artifacts from various historical periods of ancient Egypt. This makes the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona one of the main references of Egyptian archaeology worldwide.
In addition to its traveling and educational exhibition areas, the museum offers an interesting educational initiative with dramatized nocturnal visits, training courses for students of all ages, interactive workshops for children and adolescents, cultural and archaeological expeditions, and other series of interesting events.
Since its inauguration, the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona has become one of the most visited attractions, both for academics and students of Egyptian art and for visitors in general.
The museum has impressive facilities that exceed 2,000 square meters of exhibition area. It operates permanently, opening an average of 362 days a year.
It is divided into three floors, the first two with permanent exhibitions and the third for traveling exhibitions, as well as educational and training classrooms equipped with state-of-the-art digital and computer technology and a superb library housing more than 10,000 documents and pages.
The collection, which initially included 70 pieces from Jordi Clos Llombart's personal collection, contains more than 1,100 pieces and artifacts from various historical periods of ancient Egypt. This makes the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona one of the main references of Egyptian archaeology worldwide.
In addition to its traveling and educational exhibition areas, the museum offers an interesting educational initiative with dramatized nocturnal visits, training courses for students of all ages, interactive workshops for children and adolescents, cultural and archaeological expeditions, and other series of interesting events.
Since its inauguration, the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona has become one of the most visited attractions, both for academics and students of Egyptian art and for visitors in general.
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Museums in Barcelona
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