Museo Darder - Espacio de Interpretación de l'Estany de Banyoles Info and Reviews

Fantastic experience: Museum with 3 floors. Very interesting, with well-defined parts. One with a temporary exhibition about farmers, another about Lake Banyoles and its formation, and in the basement, an exhibition of preserved animals and the process to do it.
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Positive experience: Very attentive staff, but the museum a. Besides the fact that it had a closed floor due to renovations, it has become poor in exhibitions for those of us who went many years ago, evidently it is much more modern and ethical now, but in my view many of the pieces that made it attractive are missing, as we were explained those pieces are kept in the museum's storage.
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Fantastic experience: Economic and educational museum. It can be seen in a couple of hours and in an enjoyable way. Besides learning about other animal species, you can also learn about the geography of the area and what the lake nearby is like.
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Positive experience: Formative
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Fantastic experience: It was an open house day, but I especially loved the explanations about ultrasounds and the nature exhibition that I had already seen when I was young.
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Fantastic experience: Very dedicated employee who takes the time to give you an introduction. Damn cheap.
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Positive experience: It's fine. The guy at the entrance is very helpful.
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Fantastic experience: For a modest price, you can visit 2 permanent exhibitions and free of charge a temporary exhibition. The permanent exhibitions bring you closer to the history of Banyoles and its relationship with water.
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Fantastic experience: Various curiosities exposed. Interesting.
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Positive experience: Good and the reception guy very capable, they should raise his salary a bit
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Positive experience: It's worth visiting.
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Positive experience: Very interesting
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Fantastic experience: The explanations and graphics of the exhibition, the photographs, everything was very good, we visited it yesterday, day of the museums.
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Positive experience: Very complete and economical museum. Offers for students, teachers, disabled people, free children... It consists of 3 well-defined parts. The classical exhibition of Mr. Darder, former director of the Barcelona zoo. A leap into the past with a very extensive display of taxidermied animals, human bones, and a mummy. In this section was years ago the sadly famous vestige of a disturbing past, the taxidermied Bushman. Now, fortunately, the remains of this person returned to their country. On the other hand, we have an extensive and very complete sample of the biodiversity of the Bayoles pond (perhaps even too extensive and too academic and scientific). Finally, a temporary exhibition. We saw a very nice sample of astronomical photography.
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Positive experience: Very interesting to visit and has the story of Mr. Darder
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Positive experience: A curiosity to know even though it is not a scientific activity of my style.
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Positive experience: You can't leave Banyoles without first visiting the Darder Museum
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Positive experience: I didn't like it much
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Fantastic experience: Very well done
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Fantastic experience: It was better before the restoration, as a museum.
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Fantastic experience: Three spaces. One with stuffed animals, another related to water, and a temporary exhibition. Although the section with stuffed animals may initially give a bit of a creep, the truth is that the little ones enjoyed seeing all those pieces. Highly recommended
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Fantastic experience: A journey through time that not everyone can appreciate. I believe it is worth spending a minute here and valuing the service received, as it was really good and you don’t find staff so willing, enthusiastic, and kind every day. Also, what a precious collection of antique pieces, each seems to have its own story. Good explanations. It seems difficult to fit the museum of the past into today's times, I think it is very well achieved.
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Fantastic experience: Recommended, without a doubt. Valuable contributions to get to know the municipality in general.
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Positive experience: Very curious
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Fantastic experience: The Darder Museum brings me many childhood memories and now I go there with my son.
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Positive experience: Good talk and thank you.
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Positive experience: Museum with multipurpose room in the heart of Banyoles
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Fantastic experience: Molt interessant.

Fantastic experience: Very interesting!!! Moreover, there was a temporary exhibition of the Remences.
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Fantastic experience: Very informative and interesting.
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Positive experience: There's not much to see.
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Fantastic experience: The explanation of the lake, the entire water system, its formation, geology, and the animals/plants that inhabit it: AMAZING. VERY INTERESTING!! They explained it very well to us, the guy who attends, a charm!
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Fantastic experience: Yesterday we visited the Museum and the attention from the guy was excellent. Interesting explanations and a quick guide of the museum. It is very interesting. It's worth it.
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Positive experience: It's good for a family visit.
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Fantastic experience: A destacar la amabilidad del personal, nos ha dado unas indicaciones muy valiosas para nuestra estancia y para la visita a Girona
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Positive experience: Very beautiful, very pleasant to visit, for €1 a completely recommended visit. With stuffed animals and a little man.
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Positive experience: It is still a bit torrid, as I remembered it 50 years ago, although it has improved a bit with the restoration, the audiovisuals, and by removing the human skin or the so-called black man of Banyoles.
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Fantastic experience: Great
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Fantastic experience: The interpretation center helps to understand very well how the Banyoles lake was formed. For the kids, the collection of stuffed animals.
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Positive experience: It should be reconsidered to make it more interesting. The part of the Estany is quite good, but it is old, although we have been told that it needs to be rethought soon. Fortunately, the entrance is cheap. Something should be found to attract people.
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Positive experience: Good local collection.
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Fantastic experience: Great exhibitions!!
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Fantastic experience: Very small but interesting. The temporary exhibition on the International Brigades is very interesting and well explained.
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Positive experience: Very interesting the exhibition of taxidermied animals
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Fantastic experience: There is a part of the museum that feels like going back in time. If you like animals and taxidermy, this is your museum. Very good service.
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Fantastic experience: Very good pastry shop :)
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Fantastic experience: I was talking to the descendants of the bushman who was taken out of the museum and they told me that their great-grandfather was better off in the museum
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Fantastic experience: I fondly remember this museum that I visited as a youth with my parents, with school, or even with the scouts as kids in the surroundings of the lake on weekends... It is an old museum like the naturalists of yesteryear (it reminds me of the old materials science one in the Ciutadella park). I thank the Dutch Frank Besterman and Dr. Alphonse Arcellin from Cambrils, for lifting the veil from the eyes of a sick Catalonia under Francoism and the stories of Spanish Colonizers that we still bear so much pain from in our quest for Catalonia's Independence. And that made it seem normal to speak of the Negret de Banyoles as property. In any case, it was in honor of science and how disconnected we were from information that this and the zoos were our distraction... Without considering the health of the exhibited.
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Fantastic experience: A museum that fills me with nostalgia since when I was little we went on school trips and I would be mesmerized looking at the displays. Good memories.
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Positive experience: Very good reception service. Interesting museum, especially the Darder collection. Very economical.
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Positive experience: Very good.
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Positive experience: An interesting place. Although during my visit I missed better lighting.
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Fantastic experience: I really liked it, especially the friendly and cordial treatment from the receptionist. I don't know if those born in Banyoles get any discount. The room where they talk about the fauna of the estany is really well done. It's a shame the exhibition space isn't bigger. Regards!
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Fantastic experience: I liked the museum. There are temporary exhibitions (this visit was about vampires). There is a floor dedicated to the history of Lake Bañolas, fauna, and flora. And the star of the museum is an antique collection of taxidermied animals, with historical stories. But there is a display case where there is no lighting and it is impossible to see anything inside. Request: CHANGE THE LIGHTING OR REPLACE THE BULBS.
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Positive experience: It has an impressive collection of stuffed animals....
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Fantastic experience: Wow

Positive experience: Time ago was an old fashioned museum but interesting because of it. Nowadays is just a place to understand the formation of the lake and some pieces from the old museum. Not a must go place.

Positive experience: The Museu Darder is located at Plaça dels Estudis, 2 Banyoles. It was inaugurated on October 22, 1916. Its collection consists of about 20,000 pieces.
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Positive experience: Very good
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Positive experience: It is a small museum that teaches us how things were done in the past
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Fantastic experience: The Darder space is striking, it's worth a visit.
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Fantastic experience: History and interpretation center of l'Estany de Banyoles
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Positive experience: I liked it a lot
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Positive experience: Very scary exhibit! Don't take children to see it.

Fantastic experience: Very interesting !
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Fantastic experience: A museum like those proposed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, more as a surprising collection of specimens and curious artifacts than as a rigorous and structured scientific project. Nevertheless, it is a museum well worth visiting, because the surprise effect caused by all those preserved beings is still very relevant!
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Fantastic experience: I loved it because the scientific and pedagogical value inside is truly immeasurable. Only someone with a bit of sensitivity will appreciate the knowledge that can be achieved with all of this.
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Positive experience: Very interesting museum of the region.
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Positive experience: I was disappointed because I thought the interior was vintage. Very interesting. For a good time.
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Positive experience: Very interesting, highly recommended to learn details about the area.
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Fantastic experience: The only downside is that it doesn't accept card payments, but the customer service is outstanding.
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Positive experience: Very interesting
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Fantastic experience: It has some very curious animals from all continents.
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Fantastic experience: Mythical museum. It is a must-visit to discover the great research work and ancient conservation techniques of Mr. Darder.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting
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Fantastic experience: Curious
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Positive experience: It is a natural science museum, stuffed animals, but I liked it much better before they remodeled it.
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Fantastic experience: Very curious
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Fantastic experience: A small but interesting museum where you can learn about the history of this beautiful town. The guy in charge of the museum, super nice, made us a travel route that we followed and loved, and spent a good amount of time explaining everything to us in detail. We were delighted!!! Thank you!
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Positive experience: Interesting to visit
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Fantastic experience: A must-visit place if you go to Banyoles. It has a lot of history in itself.
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Positive experience: Improvement needed, the Darder floor is very neglected.
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Positive experience: The exhibition about Banyoles lake is definitely worth it
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Positive experience: The display of taxidermied animals is very good. There is also a nice collection of butterflies. All this in the basement; on the first floor, you can find a good explanation of the geological formation of Banyoles (including the famous lake). On the ground floor, we found a temporary photographic exhibition about rocks and minerals.
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Fantastic experience: It's very important to visit it
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Positive experience: Science museum: it's worth visiting. Very interesting.
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Fantastic experience: Whether you like it or not, passing through Banyoles and not visiting the Museu Darder should result in a penalty, good value for the visit.
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Positive experience: beautiful but it lacks spark
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Positive experience: We are missing the black
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Positive experience: Petic pro interesting museum
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Fantastic experience: OOMuseo Darder. Educates- Instructs the Ignorant. Sincerely. -" froi" - FROILÁN. Apprentice of. PHILOSOPHER. WRITER WHO WRITES HOW HE FEELS AND LIVES IT.❤.
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Fantastic experience: A great exhibition
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Positive experience: Organized, calm.
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Positive experience: Very interesting temporary exhibitions, conferences on different topics.
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Fantastic experience: Interesting
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Fantastic experience: Very beautiful. They have temporary exhibitions and then they have the permanent exhibition. Very enriching to see it!
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Positive experience: Poorly lit, screens that don't work... Attention and presentation could be improved. The exhibit is interesting and curious.
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Fantastic experience: Spectacular, we were pleasantly surprised, a 10
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Fantastic experience: A very curious museum... the whole thing about taxidermy and the interpretation center of the pond is very interesting.
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Fantastic experience: A very respectable museum, with very interesting content exhibitions. Great exhibition of animals and how the Banyoles pond was formed. All in all, very interesting. I recommend visiting.
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Fantastic experience: Entertaining
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Positive experience: Very different from our childhood memories, but adapted to modern times.
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Fantastic experience: Must visit
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Fantastic experience: A good place to have a good time with family for €3, children up to 16 years old do not pay. Kids can participate in a Christmas activity where they act as detectives in the museum searching for stars with words, which they then have to transform into a sentence. To finish, they paint their own star and hang it on the museum's Christmas tree.
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Fantastic experience: interesting
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Positive experience: An interesting visit for those who enjoy natural sciences and anthropology.
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Fantastic experience: High-quality outreach activities
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Positive experience: The Darder Museum is a museum located in the Girona town of Banyoles. In this museum, one of the oldest museums in the region, collections of natural history are exhibited, but it also has a section dedicated to explaining the hydrogeological origin of the Banyoles Lake basin.
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Fantastic experience: Fantastic
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Fantastic experience: A place full of gastronomic surprises
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Fantastic experience: Highly recommended
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Positive experience: Positive, very interesting the audiovisuals that explain the formation of the Estany
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Positive experience: The historic museum of Banyoles, updated as a natural science museum where the nature around the lake is explained, after the controversy that shook it due to the bushman person that was displayed in a preserved state and ended up being buried in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana.
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Fantastic experience: Iconic museum of Banyoles where a vocational training institute had previously been
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Positive experience: Very interesting museum to dive into the History of Banyoles. It is a must-see cultural visit if you go there.
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Fantastic experience: very good museum, I will visit it again
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Fantastic experience: Very nice to visit. Without the room of life.
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Positive experience: Interesting to see a collection from a taxidermist
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting, and very well explained
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Positive experience: Correct museum, although small. It has lost the charm it had when I visited it as a child. Now it feels much colder.
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Positive experience: Xq makes me go back to the past without forgetting the present
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Fantastic experience: It's a great museum to visit with family
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Positive experience: Interesting to see.
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Positive experience: Main museum of Banyoles and cultural center. With the ticket, you can also visit the Archaeological museum.
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Fantastic experience: Maki
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Positive experience: We went to a very interesting conference.
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Fantastic experience: interesting
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