Opening times
Location
Tickets
Admissions
Opening times
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 7pm
Wednesdays, 10am to 8pm
Sundays and public holidays, 10am to 2.30pm
The ticket office and entrance are closed 30 minutes before closing time
CLOSED: Mondays that are not bank holidays, 1 and 6 January, 1 May, 18 May, 1 June, 25 and 26 December
Location
Address
Plaça de Pau Vila, 3
08039 Barcelona
Coordinates: 41.380900, 2.185693
Contact
932 254 700
mhc.cultura@gencat.cat
Fax 932 254 758
Group and school bookings:
932 254 244
Monday to Thursday: 10am-2pm and 3.30-5.30pm
Friday: 9.30am-2pm
mhcvisites.cultura@gencat.cat
Transport and access routes
Public transport
Buses V17, H14, D20, V15, V13, 39, 45, 51, 59 and 120
Metro L4 (yellow) Barceloneta
Train to Barcelona Estació de França
Barcelona Tourist Bus: red line; and Barcelona City Tour: eastern route; Museu d’Historia de Catalunya stop.
Parking
There are three paid-for car parks nearby: in Passeig Joan de Borbó, Moll d’Espanya and Moll de la Fusta.
Coaches have parking spaces available near the museum building.
“Bicing” bicycle hire in Plaça Pau Vila.
Admissions
Permanent exhibition
Temporary exhibitions
General admission: 4 euros
Reduced admission: 3 euros
Combined ticket
Permanent exhibition + temporary exhibition
General admission: 8 euros
Reduced admission: 6 euros
Opening times
Location
Tickets
Admissions
Opening times
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 7pm
Wednesdays, 10am to 8pm
Sundays and public holidays, 10am to 2.30pm
The ticket office and entrance are closed 30 minutes before closing time
CLOSED: Mondays that are not bank holidays, 1 and 6 January, 1 May, 18 May, 1 June, 25 and 26 December
Location
Address
Plaça de Pau Vila, 3
08039 Barcelona
Coordinates: 41.380900, 2.185693
Contact
932 254 700
mhc.cultura@gencat.cat
Fax 932 254 758
Group and school bookings:
932 254 244
Monday to Thursday: 10am-2pm and 3.30-5.30pm
Friday: 9.30am-2pm
mhcvisites.cultura@gencat.cat
Transport and access routes
Public transport
Buses V17, H14, D20, V15, V13, 39, 45, 51, 59 and 120
Metro L4 (yellow) Barceloneta
Train to Barcelona Estació de França
Barcelona Tourist Bus: red line; and Barcelona City Tour: eastern route; Museu d’Historia de Catalunya stop.
Parking
There are three paid-for car parks nearby: in Passeig Joan de Borbó, Moll d’Espanya and Moll de la Fusta.
Coaches have parking spaces available near the museum building.
“Bicing” bicycle hire in Plaça Pau Vila.
Admissions
Permanent exhibition
Temporary exhibitions
General admission: 4 euros
Reduced admission: 3 euros
Combined ticket
Permanent exhibition + temporary exhibition
General admission: 8 euros
Reduced admission: 6 euros
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Scenography of the Reapers’ War (21)
The anthem of Catalonia, Els Segadors (the reapers), is based on a popular song that recounts the events of the reapers’ uprising on the Feast of Corpus Christi in 1640.
The billeting of thousands of soldiers sent to the French border, as part of the Thirty Years War, stirs up great discontent among the peasantry. An incident in Barcelona when a group of reapers clash with soldiers sparks a revolt all over Catalonia. The peasants’ uprising turns into a political revolution, led by the president of the Generalitat, in the face of a threat of invasion of the country by the royal troops.
At the end of the 19th century Els Segadors, now an anthem, becomes a symbol among Catalan nationalist sectors and under the Franco regime it is used as a protest song. In 1993 the parliament proclaims it the official anthem of Catalonia.
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