The Flooded Forest
A real thousand-metre Amazon under glass — rain, fish and birds included.
Jirka Dl — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Txllxt TxllxT — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Txllxt TxllxT — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Alberto-g-rovi — CC BY 4.0
A rarely wide span: a corner for under-sixes, the great hall gold from six through teens, forest and geology pleasing the adults themselves. A mixed-age family finds everyone busy and happy — the rarest thing a museum offers.
On Tibidabo's slope away from the centre: FGC train to Avinguda Tibidabo, then the historic Blue Tram or a short uphill walk. Pair it with Tibidabo hill itself for the full slope day.
An honest three-hour minimum; hands-on families reach five without boredom — the café inside sustains the day. The planetarium show adds a fine half hour.
Sign in to write your review of this place.
No reviews yet — be the first.
CosmoCaixa is among Europe's best science museums and its most generous — a six-euro ticket to a world that swallows a family day whole. The famous star is the Flooded Forest: a real thousand-square-metre piece of Amazon inside glass, with rain trees, fish, turtles and free-flying birds — it genuinely rains inside. Around it, the vast Hall of Matter orders the universe from Big Bang to human brain through experiments all made for hands, alongside a geological wall of monumental real strata, a Foucault pendulum, and a planetarium with its shows. The building sets a modern machine atop a venerable one on Tibidabo's slope, entered down a spiral walkway circling an Amazonian tree — delight begins at the door. With children in Barcelona, this is the city's smartest tourist spend.
A real thousand-metre Amazon under glass — rain, fish and birds included.
Big Bang to brain, every station made for hands.
Monumental real strata reading off millions of years.
Carrer d'Isaac Newton 26, 08022 Barcelona