page_title: Tourism in Spain
section_title: Museums in Barcelona
hierarchical_section_title: Tourism in Spain / Art and culture / Museums in Barcelona
context_page_description: Tourism in Spain is the third major contributor to national economic life after the industrial and the business/banking sectors, contributing about 10–11% of Spain's GDP. Ever since the 1960s and 1970s, the country has been a popular destination for summer holidays, especially with large numbers of tourists from the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, the Benelux, and the United States, among others. Accordingly, Spain's foreign tourist industry has grown into the second-biggest in the world.
  In 2019, Spain was the second most visited country in the world, recording 83.7 million tourists which marked the seventh consecutive year of record-beating numbers.
  Spain ranks first among 140 countries in the biannual Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index published by the World Economic Forum in 2019, matching the top position already achieved in 2017 and 2015.
  The World Tourism Organization has its headquarters in Madrid.
  According to The Economist 2005 year list, Spain has the world's 10th highest quality of life.
context_section_description: This is a list of museums in Barcelona (Catalonia) and in its surrounding metropolitan area.
  Archaeology Museum of Barcelona (MAC)
  Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
  Museu del Modernisme Català MMCAT
  CaixaForum Barcelona
  Casa Àsia
  Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (CASM)
  Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
  Cosmocaixa Barcelona (former Museu de la Ciència de Barcelona)
  Espai Gaudí (La Pedrera)
  Fundació Antoni Tàpies
  Olympic and Sports Museum Joan Antoni Samaranch
  Fundació Joan Miró
  Fundació Suñol
  FC Barcelona Museum
  Gracia Arts Project
  Palau Reial de Pedralbes
  Museu de Ceràmica
  Museu de les Arts Decoratives
  Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària
  Museu d'Autòmates
  Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí
  Museu del Calçat
  Museu de Cera de Barcelona
  Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona
  Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona (the main exhibition site, at the Forum Building)
  Martorell Museum (the historical site where the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona was founded in 1882, but contained the Geology Museum from 1924 to 2010)
  Laboratori de Natura, at the Castle of the Three Dragons (from 1920 to 2010: Zoology Museum)
  Botanical garden of Barcelona
  Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona
  Museu del Clavegueram
  Museu del Còmic i la Il·lustració
  Museu Egipci de Barcelona
  Museu de l'Eròtica de Barcelona
  Museu Etnològic de Barcelona
  Museu Frederic Marès
  Museu Gaudí
  Museu d'Història de Catalunya
  Museu d'Història de la Ciutat
  Centre d'Interpretació del Park Güell
  Museu Marítim
  Museu Militar de Barcelona (closed May 2009)
  Museu de la Música de Barcelona
  National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC)
  Museu del Perfum - Fundació Planas Giralt
  Museu Picasso
  Museu Taurí
  Museu de la Xocolata
  Palau de la Virreina
  Palau Robert
  Sala Ciutat
  Sagrada Familia
caption: CaixaForum Barcelona.
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