Within the revitalized 1880s Palau de Mar, this excellent multimedia museum travels through 2000 years of Catalan history, from the Stone Age to the arrival of Modernisme and the Spanish Civil War (touching heavily on the cultural and political repression felt across Catalonia postwar) and into the 21st century.
You'll see how the Romans lived, listen to Arab poetry from Barcelona's time under Muslim rule, learn all about the Greek-then-Roman port of Empúries, and more. Afterwards, head upstairs to the first-rate rooftop restaurant 1881 and its attached cafe-bar.
