Editing Barcelona (section)

=== Museums ===
{{Main|List of museums in Barcelona}}
[[File:Palau Nacional Barcelona Pano 2013.jpg|thumb|The [[Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya|National Museum of Art of Catalonia]] stands out for its collection of [[Romanesque painting]].]]
[[File:Barcelona_-_Museu_d'Art_Contemporani_de_Barcelona_(MACBA).jpg|thumb|[[Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art]]]]

Barcelona has a great number of museums, which cover different areas and eras. The [[Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya|National Museum of Art of Catalonia]] possesses a well-known collection of [[Romanesque art]], while the [[Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art]] focuses on [[Post-war|post-1945]] Catalan and [[Spanish art]]. The [[Fundació Joan Miró]], [[Museu Picasso|Picasso Museum]], and [[Fundació Antoni Tàpies]] hold important collections of these world-renowned artists, as well as the [[Can Framis Museum]], focused on post-1960 Catalan Art owned by [[Fundació Vila Casas]]. Several museums cover the fields of history and archaeology, like the [[Barcelona City History Museum]] (MUHBA), the [[Museum of the History of Catalonia]], the [[Archaeology Museum of Catalonia|Archeology Museum of Catalonia]], the [[Maritime Museum of Barcelona]], the [[Museu de la Música de Barcelona|Music Museum of Barcelona]] and the privately owned [[Egyptian Museum of Barcelona]]. The Erotic museum of Barcelona is among the most peculiar ones, while [[CosmoCaixa Barcelona|CosmoCaixa]] is a [[science museum]] that received the [[European Museum of the Year Award]] in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The European Museum of the Year |url=https://www.europeanforum.museum/en/winners/the-emya/ |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=European Forum |language=en |archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413051044/https://www.europeanforum.museum/en/winners/the-emya/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona]] was founded in 1882 under the name of "Museo Martorell de Arqueología y Ciencias Naturales"<ref name="134-anys-dhistoria">''[https://museuciencies.cat/134-anys-dhistoria/ Què passa al Museu?, Actualitat del Museu, Notícies del Museu, 134 anys d'història] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916043042/https://museuciencies.cat/134-anys-dhistoria/ |date=16 September 2020 }}'', Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona, press release 25 September 2016 {{in lang|ca}}</ref><ref name="Miradas">''Miradas: Páginas de la historia, una obra inédita'', exhibition at "Museo Cerralbo", Madrid, from 24 April to 24 May 2012 ({{in lang|es}}</ref> (Spanish for "Martorell Museum of Archaeology and Natural Sciences"). In 2011 the Museum of Natural Sciences ended up with a merge of five institutions: the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona (the main site, at the [[Forum Building]]), the [[Martorell Museum]] (the historical seat of the Museum, opened to the public from 1924 to 2010 as a geology museum), the ''[[Laboratori de Natura]]'', at the [[Castle of the Three Dragons]] (from 1920 to 2010: the Zoology Museum), the [[Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona]], founded 1930, and the [[Jardí Botànic de Barcelona|Botanical garden of Barcelona]], founded 1999. Those two gardens are a part of the [[Botanical Institute of Barcelona]] too.

The [[FC Barcelona Museum]] is the third most popular tourist attraction in Catalonia, with 1,51 million visitors in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catalan museums received 21.5 million visitors in 2013 |url=http://www.catalannews.com/culture/item/catalan-museums-received-21-5-million-visitors-in-2013,%20https://www.catalannews.com/culture/item/catalan-museums-received-21-5-million-visitors-in-2013 |access-date=9 November 2021 |website=www.catalannews.com |language=en-gb}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>