My brother leaves in Andorra, so I don't get to spend much time with my nephew but this week the kid has a school holyday and he's in town. My mom and I decided to take him to Cosmocaixa, the Science Museum and he had an awesome time there!
We had heard there was a temporary exhibit on dinosaure skeletons, and since he LOVES dinosaures, we thought it'd be fun. And yes, the exhibit was a success (we did it twice!), but he also enjoyed so much all the interactive science experiments. Well, not that he's old enough to really understand what they were about (he's only 6yo), but there were loads of buttons to push and things to move! And you know how kids are! ; )
And the biggest surprise was the Flooded Forrest: they have reproduced the Amazonian Forrest environment so you can see it first from outside (huge piranhas!), but then you enter the backside of the glass cage and it becomes a subdued-light terrarium with more fish, and snakes, and spiders and then... you get out to the Forrest Garden. My nephew got so excited! He really felt like he was in a real forrest with all those plants and the birds moving around us. It also started "raining" on the marshland (we didn't get wet, though), and we could feel the warm temperature and the moist in the air. That was SO cool!
So if you are visiting Barcelona with kids, Cosmocaixa is definitely a great place to go for an afternoon. Take either a taxi, or from Plaça Catalunya the FFCC train to Avinguda Tibidabo, then from there the196 bus takes you to the door.
Also, if you are planning to join any of their additional activities such as the Planetarium or the TocaToca, make sure to book them online as they always sell out (yes, even Mon-Fri afternoon in low season!).
And one more thing! The easiest way to visit the Museum is taking the elevator or the scalators to the -5 floor, and from there go back up (as the best part is in the very bottom floor).
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