Museum
Design Museum of Barcelona
Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38, c, Sant Martí, 08018 Barcelona
Cantilevered glass and steel museum block suspended above a square, merging four historic design collections under one roof.
This guide to the Design Museum of Barcelona explains the odd problem architect Oriol Bohigas and his studio MBM were asked to solve: four separate city museums, each too small to show what it held, that needed to be combined under one roof bold enough to make design itself into a landmark. You'll hear how the cantilevered building earned its local nickname and what construction demanded between the 2009 groundbreaking and the doors finally opening. Stand beneath the overhang before you go in and look up.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.