Nature & natural history museums in Barcelona

Park Güell is a large city park located in the Gràcia district in the northeast of Barcelona. The park covers an area of 15 hectares and is characterized by its dense pine forests, palm-lined avenues, and a tree-lined square. This provides a unique blend of nature and architecture, offering visitors a chance to enjoy the outdoors while exploring the park's many features.

Founded in 1892, the quite large Barcelona Zoo is one of the oldest zoos in the world. It is home to more than 7,000 animals, including a reptile house, a pavilion of monkeys, and an aquarium with dolphins with dolphin shows. There are also two large playgrounds, a petting zoo, and a green area for

Aquarium Barcelona is an aquarium with 35 aquariums and is home to over 450 different species and over 11,000 animals in total. The aquarium includes an ocean tank for sharks, rays and other large fish, which contains 3,700,000 liters of water and has an underwater tunnel of 80 meters.

Designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Museu Blau opened in 2004. The museum houses part of the Natural History Museum of Barcelona (Museu Blau) and an auditorium where conferences take place. The museum occupies two floors and its permanent exhibition is called Planet

The Museu Martorell is housed in a neoclassical building, designed by the architect Antoni Rovira i Trias. It was the first public museum of Barcelona, situated in its first urban park. The Museu Martorell houses geology collections as well as palaeontology collections and a library specialising in

The Botanical garden of Barcelona is a botanical garden in the Montjuïc hill. The current gardens date from 1999 and are specialized in plants from areas with Mediterranean climates. The areas the botanical garden focuses on are Australia, Chile, California, South Africa,the western Mediterranean ar