The Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya is the local institution responsible for preserving and interpreting the material remains that tell the story of Catalonia from Prehistory to the Middle Ages. Situated on Montjuïc, the museum displays archaeological artefacts, sculptures, and ritual objects that reveal the creativity, beliefs and social organisation of the cultures that inhabited the region. Its permanent and temporary exhibitions offer a visual journey through the western Mediterranean, where each piece, no matter how small, carries the imprint of a civilisation.
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- The museum houses one of the most intriguing collections of Iberian ex-votos on the Iberian Peninsula: small bronze sculptures shaped as humans and animals, often with disproportionate features that still raise questions today.
- The building is a notable example of historicist architecture, constructed for the 1929 International Exposition, serving as an immense setting to host histories that began thousands of years earlier.
