Mammoth Museum

If you've seen Barcelona's stone mammoth in Parc de Ciutadella and been inspired, how about a close encounter with the real thing at this bizarre but brilliant tribute to one of the world's largest creatures? The Barcelona Mammoth Museum features some unbelievable treasures, including one of the best-preserved proboscidean skeletons on the planet (it's huge!) as well as a 5-metre-high life-sized reconstruction of a mammoth using yak hair, which helps you visualise these giant beasts roaming the earth during the Ice Age. Best of all visitors are encouraged to touch and hold virtually all of the museum's displays, which include fossilised teeth of these ancient elephants, and the horn (which, as you will learn, is made of hair!) of the woolly rhinoceros. The friendly staff will happily tell you more about all the exhibits, from the cave bear skeletons to the millenia-old tusks and dried skin of the mammoths themselves. You can buy tickets in advance via Atrapalo, or turn up any day before 9pm (the Museum is centrally located in El Born).

Some interesting exhibits. I especially liked the cave bear skeleton and the fossilized teeth and tusks. At times the museum felt a bit cheesy but overall it was a nice surprise. Ironically given it's a museum about the ice age it kept us warm and interested during a cold winter's day in Barcelona.

I couldn't believe our kids were actually allowed to touch so many of the exhibits. I was terrified they would break them. But thankfully they didn't! Needless to say they loved it, and as an adult I was impressed too. It's not the biggest museum, which is perhaps a good thing as well. I'd definitely recommend for children and maybe adults with a special interest in the ice age.

El museo del Mamut tiene los esquiletos auntenticos de edad de Hielo. Tambien hay copies de pinturas repestras. Es muy interesante.

Me gusta el museo del mammut!

a greate museum and friendly stuffs! nice that you can touch everything! and its all authentic! incredible! im recomending definitely go there!:)

Small, but cool museum in the center of Barcelona.
Also you can buy some stuff for thouthands of euros in the museum's shop :)

Very funny museum with so many interesting artefacts from the icey age. It was great that you could touch everything.

A great museum, and I loved all the stories that the staff told me... especially that the origins of the Cyclops story came from a mammoth skull!