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The cultural, architectural and artistic offers in Barcelona are well known, particularly seductive and plentiful. However, with their sophisticated and internationally renowned museums, galleries and buildings, the city is also rich in unique museum attractions characterized by an eccentricity stimulant that will delight those looking for the less used or publicized faces of the city. We could perhaps call them museums for those who don’t usually like museums, if it was such holder that falls somewhere in that particular unhealthy cliché.
Such is the case for example, of the recently opened Museum Miba or http://www.mibamuseum.com/ that with ideas and Inventions with inspiration and enthusiasm that greets the visitor with the words painted on the wall of the entrance, “All is not invented. ” Perhaps the most interesting aspect about this amazing place, where constantly we go through breathtaking journeys from the ridiculous to the sublime, while discovering devices such as pots that move alone in search of sunlight or pads that are also sometimes remote control is the way it explores the blurred, uncertain boundaries between the absurd and great ideas.
No less remarkable is the famous Museu de L´Erotica, first museum dedicated to art and culture of eroticism in Spanish, which approaches to the seductive through the exhibition of more than eight hundred items of considerable historical value and from a transversal approach which includes disciplines such as, literature, art, archeology, history, anthropology, food, film and antiques. It also houses a permanent exhibition of erotic art, which are works by artists known and admired worldwide. With the entrance the visitor is entitled to a free drink.
Nor could we forget in an article of this nature, especially given the long and illustrious tradition in both areas of the Catalan city, the Museum of Comic and the Enlightenment, which is currently located in the Montjuic Castle offers and that offers a fascinating glance through the history of Spanish graphic illustration and comics from the nineteenth century to the present.
Another great rarity is the Museum of Perfume. Opened in 1961, and divided into two different parts (one, organized chronologically from antiquity to the mid-eighteenth century, and another where the bottles are arranged according to trademarks, from the appearance in that period of industrialized perfumery) it is a magnificent building right in the elegant Paseo de Gracia, which presents the historical evolution of both the perfume and its containers.
Finally and as charming as the mentioned ones is the Museu de la Xocolata, that offers various activities including bakery workshops and birthday celebrations. It will surely delight all chocolate lovers who are staying at apartments in Barcelona
