Park Güell - Museu d'Història de Barcelona serves as the interpretive centre dedicated to exploring the origins and transformation of Park Güell within the context of modernist Barcelona. Housed in the Casa del Guarda, one of the entrance pavilions to the site that features the park's famous monuments, this museum offers a journey through the relationship between Antoni Gaudí and Eusebi Güell, alongside the urban development of the early twentieth century. Through audiovisual resources, maps, and photographs, visitors gain insight into how this ambitious garden city project ultimately became one of the most recognisable icons in the city’s cultural imagination.
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- Park Güell was originally a private housing development inspired by English garden cities. The project was not succesful, and only two plots were ever sold, forever altering its destiny.
- The Casa del Guarda was designed as the residence for the site’s caretaker. Its whimsical appearance conceals a practical function within Güell’s original plan, which sought to integrate architecture and daily life within a single landscape.
