Barcelona’s Mammoth Museum

The Barcelona Mammoth Museum (in Catalan Museu del Mamut) is one of the most striking and authentic museums in the city. Located right in the heart of the city centre, in the ‘El Born’ area, the museum is housed in a gothic-style building dating back to the 13th century, which is sure to add even more interest to your visit.

When it opened in 2010 very few people believed that it would succeed, but actually its originality and ability to present the exhibits and guide the visitor through the exhibition in an entertaining but informative manner has meant that word has got round that in Barcelona there’s a museum dedicated to mammoths!

What will we see in the Mammoth Museum?

In spite of being a small museum, it boasts a very valuable collection. Although as the name suggests, the protagonist of the museum is of course the mammoth, there are also permanent exhibitions of other animals of prehistoric origin, such as the rhinoceros, the bison, the cave bear and the musk ox.

Thanks to excellent judgment by its management, the Mammoth Museum has been designed to be interesting for visitors of all ages and knowledge. So if you already have some knowledge about mammoths and their extinction, a visit to the museum will be a perfect way of deepening your knowledge, whereas if you hardly know any background information then this visit will serve as a great introduction to this wonderful world.

Museum Collection

The museum has several exhibition rooms, the first of which is a generic introduction to the prehistoric world and the animals that inhabited it, and the rest are more specific and focus on various prehistoric animals. The last room is an exception, and it will surprise you with an exhibition of crafts made in ivory by craftsmen in Siberia.

A huge part of the attraction of the Mammoth Museum is the fact that you can smell and touch many of the prehistoric exhibits, for example the teeth and tusks of an actual mammoth.

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