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Barcelona ArqueoticketNew Discount Ticket to Museums in the Catalan CapitalThe Arqueoticket saves you money on admission to five museums with archaeological exhibits in Barcelona, Spain.
The Barcelona Tourist Board has introduced a new way to give tourists better value for money in the city. The Arqueoticket entitles holders to visit the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia, the City History Museum, the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, the Egyptian Museum and the Maritime Museum. The ticket, which is available from tourist offices and the museums involved, costs 17 euros, which represents a saving of 4.40 euros over the individual entry prices. It is valid until December 31st of the year it is purchased, so does not have to be used in a single visit. The Archaeology Museum of Catalonia traces human development from prehistoric times to the medieval era by means of ceramics, coins, sculpture and all manner of objects found at the main archaeological sites in Catalonia. Exhibits include Roman mosaics, Carthaginian exhibits from Ibiza and a large selection of objects from the Greek settlement of Empúreis in northern Catalonia. The museum is housed in a pavilion built as part of the International Exhibition held in Barcelona in 1929 and features a hexagonal main hall. The City History Museum occupies a Gothic merchant’s palace right in the heart of the old town of Barcelona. Remains of the Roman city of Barcino have been discovered below the museum, and visitors can follow a route taking in vestiges of streets, baths and the foundations of houses.The visit also includes the 14th-century Tinell Hall and the Chapel of Saint Agatha on the Plaça del Rei. The Egyptian Museum contains the ancient Egyptian archaeological collections of Jordi Clos, one of Barcelona’s leading hoteliers. More than 700 exhibits are on display, including jewellery, ceramics, and of course mummies and tombs, divided into sections that deal with everyday life, funeral rituals, religious beliefs and the world of the pharaohs. The Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, located in the medieval Nadal Palace on the historic Carrer Montcada, displays the collections from Central and South America donated by the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva. Exhibits range from ritual objects and ceramics to sculpture and textiles, tracing the artistic legacy of the different peoples who lived in the regions before the Europeans arrived. The Maritime Museum is situated in the medieval Royal Shipyards, the best-preserved example of civil Gothic architecture in the world, which were built in the late 13th-century and extended and altered over the next 500 years. The museum is popular with adults and children alike, and contains models of ships from the discovery of America and John of Austria’s royal galley. Visitors can also go on simulated voyages on a submarine or steamboat.
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