Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA)

The Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) is responsible for ensuring research into, as well as conservation and promotion of Barcelona's heritage. It is an active institution that interprets and explains the city using its own collections as well as those of other museums and the urban historical legacy that shapes it. From its main facilities in the central Plaça del Rei Square, the MUHBA is spread out across almost twenty other locations around the city, each with its own personality.Visitors can explore Barcelona's history through material remnants of the past. Beneath the Plaça del Rei Square, Comtes Street, the Plaça de Sant Iu Square, the Marès Museum and part of the Gothic cathedral, you can visit an archaeological area with significant remains that show the origins of the city; namely the Iulia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino colony that was founded by the Romans more than 2000 years ago.