Big Fun Museum

A family trip to Barcelona will be unforgettable if you know which places to put on your must-see list. The capital of Catalonia has a lot of fun and extreme attractions, zoos and green areas, children's centres, and amazing museums. And speaking of the latter, Barcelona has a whole museum and entertainment complex — Big Fun Museum. It will interest children of all ages, and adults will not be bored. If you are looking for a place to have a lot of fun, the Big Fun Museum fully corresponds to this request.

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Big Fun Museum is eight separate museums under one roof, located in the heart of Barcelona, on La Rambla. Visitors can see unique exhibits in the Guinness World Records Museum, take hundreds of funny shots in the Upside Down House and feel like a guest of chocolate magnate Willy Wonka in the Museum of Sweets. In the Big Fun Museum,its visitors will also have a trip to the House of the Giant and the fairy-tale Looking-Glass, where Alice visited. They will see the instruments of torture in the Museum of Madness and the Magic Room, the walls of which change now and then.

Just five minutes away from the Big Fun Museum is the Museum of 3D Illusions, a visit to which is like an incredible journey to Fantasyland, where there are amazing installations, entertainment, fun and a lot of exciting things at every turn. The exhibits are a real challenge to the perception and make you wonder what is real and what is a thorough optical illusion and a figment of the imagination.

Get ready that after visiting the Big Fun Museum, your cheeks will ache from continuous laughter, and your phone memory will be filled with a hundred or two new pictures. It is the perfect place for quality time together for kids and parents.

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The Big Fun Museum in Barcelona is part of Big Creative, a worldwide organisation of interactive museums in Spain, the USA, and the Netherlands. More than 50,000 guests visit Big Creative museums in different parts of the world daily.

The Spanish Big Fun Museum is a unique art space often used for photo and video shoots. Honeymooners, birthday parties, and participants of various themed parties come here to take pictures. Music videos and commercials are filmed here.

The Big Fun Museum entertainment complex consists of eight separate museums (themed zones). All locations are placed under one roof, and the 3D Illusions Museum, also part of Big Fun Museum, is a five-minute walk away.

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Visiting this part of the museum, visitors will learn about the most exciting records ever set on our planet. Here, you will meet the tallest man in the world, the woman with the thinnest waist, a man with a double tongue and a metal eater, and see the legendary chupacabra, the smallest car and other curiosities.

This may be the only zone in the museum where the exhibits are real, i.e., ever existed. In all other locations, visitors are shown things aimed at playing with their imagination.

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A Topsy-Turvy House creates the illusion that the world around you has turned upside down. The laws of physics seem to stop working here. Be careful — you may initially feel dizzy and nauseous until your vestibular system adapts to the new conditions.

The furniture hangs from the ceiling, and chandeliers and floor lamps "grow" from the floor. The kettle on the cooker also faces downwards, and it seems that boiling water is about to start pouring out of it. Interestingly, if you open any drawer, the contents will also be upside down — the creators of the location have thought of everything down to the smallest detail.

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This location is a real paradise for lovers of all kinds of desserts because everything in this room is made of sweets. You can lie in a bathtub filled with sweets or ride on a swing in the shape of a glazed doughnut. And if you get tired, sit down to rest on a poufy macaron under a huge ice-cream cone, in the multi-coloured balls of which the lights are embedded.

Almost all exhibits here are interactive; guests are allowed to interact with them. Unfortunately, you can't eat them (although you have to give the creators credit — they look very realistic).

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This part of the museum is not intended for small children and faint-hearted adults because here, the visitors are expected to experience sharp and even, in some places, spooky impressions. The exhibits make sounds, emit glow, and create optical illusions to cause feelings of disorientation, anxiety and restlessness.

Visitors will learn about different extreme methods of treatment used in the past, before the development of modern humane medicine, and see instruments of torture and mannequins depicting victims. Among the exhibits are a graveyard of ancient hunters, a drowned pirate who seems to have come ashore from the "Flying Dutchman", skeletons of monsters and much more. The Museum of Madness is suitable for fans of horror films, but children under 12 should not go to this "room of fear".

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Here, the illusion of going beyond the limits of space is created. The Giant's guests enter a huge room with oversized furniture and large interior details. Harry Potter's friend, the shaggy-haired forester Hagrid, could live in such a house very well.

To sit on a chair, the average person must first climb the stairs. The sink in the kitchen is more like a swimming pool. And it's easy to hide in the room — all you have to do is crawl into a hole in the Dutch cheese. Children especially like to ride the banana peel-like slide. The scale of the space is emphasised by cleverly installed lighting and shadows that elongate the outlines of the already quite impressive objects.

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Almost everyone is familiar with Lewis Carroll's fairy tale about Alice's adventures, and in this location, everyone can try on the role of the work's main character. The main hall is a whole system of mirrors set at different angles. It isn't easy to distinguish real objects from their reflection. Visitors receive gloves at the entrance to the location to determine by touch where the optical deception is and where the real mirror is.

You will be surrounded by playing cards, which faithfully serve the Red Queen, fanciful flowers and mushrooms, and other exciting things. There's also a massive table with giant cups and a teapot (nearby, you'll probably find a small bottle labelled "Drink me" and a cake encouraging you to eat it). Visitors to the museum will also meet the charming Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat, who periodically reveals his toothy smile to visitors, but remains invisible.

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It contains exhibits responsible for various optical illusions. Sensory effects create the illusion of movement and transformation. The magic room seems to live by itself. Even the walls here pulsate, breathe and move. The creators achieved this effect with the help of light and a projector directed at the walls. You can walk through the magical forest, admire the stars and enjoy impressive views of Barcelona — you can do it all here.

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The exhibits in this area are made entirely of food — sculptures made of fruit and vegetables and paintings made of sauces. The most popular exhibition is the "gastronomic" portrait of Salvador Dali, with a nose made of potatoes and moustaches made of peppers.

It is also impossible to pass by Mona Lisa, who gracefully folded her octopus hands on her lap. By the way, the head of Leonardo da Vinci's beauty on this "reproduction" was replaced by a squid's head.

Frida Kahlo's portrait is made not of products but of flowers, which makes the artist's severe face more refined and tender (no matter how Frida frowned her green eyebrows). Visitors can take photos of unusual works of art and participate in a masterclass on creating similar masterpieces.

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Here, visitors are welcomed by installations that create optical illusions when interacting with them. Visitors to the Museum of 3D Illusions must escape a Tyrannosaurus, walk through the Grand Canyon, and cope with Megalodon and giant bees.

There are 60 paintings in the Museum of 3D Illusions, and four images are replaced with new ones every week. By the way, all the images were hand-created by the best artists in Barcelona.

The museum also has a separate recreation area with a large pool and colourful balls where you can bungee jump. And between jumping and relaxing in the pool, organising a real knight's competition on inflatable balls is recommended. What child will refuse such an active and fun pastime? By the way, adults can also participate in such games.

You can buy candyfloss, water and drinks in the museum. The whole area of the museum is barrier-free, and Big Fun Museum is wheelchair accessible.

There are special offers for school groups, weddings, children's birthday parties, team-building events and other events. There are also spaces available for filming content for social media and websites.

• To save time, buy tickets online, so you don't have to queue at the ticket office. You don't need to print online tickets; show a digital version on your smartphone.
• It is best to come to the museum by the opening time, i.e. by 11:00 on weekdays. At this time there are the least number of visitors.
• Parents of babies can come with a pram. But be prepared because the museum is often crowded and travelling with a pram will not be very convenient (both for you and other visitors).
• You can bring your pet with you, as the museum and entertainment complex allows visiting with dogs (provided your four-legged friends are on a leash).
• Allow 2-3 hours to visit the Big Fun Museum, especially if you travel with small children or a large group. Many exhibits are in each zone, and some locations have photo zones, which often have a queue.
• Having lunch before visiting the Big Fun Museum is better, as there is no food court or café here.
• Remember your camera because the museum has many interactive exhibits with which you can (and even should!) make unique shots.
• If you came to the excursion alone, don't be shy — ask the museum staff to take a couple of pictures for you. The Big Fun Museum staff will gladly do you this small favour.