Museo de Historia de Gerona Info and Reviews

Fantastic experience: Lovely museum with an extensive English audio tour about the history of the city and region. I probably spent about an hour relaxing on the outdoor terrace enjoying the sun.

Positive experience: Large and complete museum, but the rooms are very disparate and there's a lack of organization.
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Fantastic experience: Very good, there are good works, it's not just a museum.
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Fantastic experience: A very interesting museum. Friendly welcome. Affordable prices. And the building is magnificent. The part of the 20th century is sad. At the arrival of the fascist Francoists and the exodus of Republicans to France.
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Positive experience: The museum was very good. Unfortunately, there was not a good signal inside to listen to the audio guide and the wifi signal also drops. The rest was excellent
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Fantastic experience: It's a museum that has many curiosities...
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Positive experience: Most items have no English explanation. There's not much to see in there. Walking outside is a much better way to learn about Girona. Go to The Cinema Museum instead.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic museum - just the right amount of information to keep my interest; thanks especially for the English language translations, much appreciated.

Positive experience: Quite an interesting museum and not very big, right in the heart of the city of Girona. The visit takes between 1 and 2 hours at most, but the signs about the direction of the tour are not really clear and the numbers corresponding to the audio guide are not clearly visible. A bit of a shame.
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Fantastic experience: The museum is very nice and informative, the staff members are very nice and helpful!

Fantastic experience: City history museum. Beautiful building and beautiful exhibitions, from Roman Girona to the most current. There are models, images, paintings, mosaics... It is a highly recommended visit if you have days to enjoy the city.
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Fantastic experience: I loved it. It is the complete history of the city from Roman times and you move from stage to stage. The part with photographs from above the city in the 19th century is very beautiful. It must be visited.
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Positive experience: Interesting. The receptionist girl attended us very well and offered us a discount pass for other museums.
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Fantastic experience: The Girona History Museum is located in the heart of the Old Town, in a building with a unique history, occupying the former convent of Capuchin friars of San Antonio from the 18th century, of which surprising spaces such as the cemetery, the cloister, and the cistern are preserved. The museum offers a chronological journey through the history of the city, passing through Roman Girona, medieval, modern, and contemporary periods, in a chronological route that is complemented by various thematic areas; it also hosts a space dedicated to the festive imagery of the city and includes a room dedicated to the sardana and the cobla. The museum offers a varied program of activities. Temporary exhibitions take place in different spaces within the museum: the exhibition hall, the coal cellar, the cistern, and the wine cellar.
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Positive experience: Overall summary of the visit, quite satisfactory! It explains a bit of all the eras from Roman, medieval, modernism, French war, Francoism, civil war.. if you want to see it well, you need about 2 hours calmly. The only negative point, I missed a more complete audio guide. The free one is a bit short. Sometimes it has too much text together. But undoubtedly, I still recommend it, Girona captivates me!
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Fantastic experience: A very comprehensive museum of the history of Girona. The museum is very well documented with audio in multiple languages. It is very well organised and pleasant to visit. Strongly recommend when in town. It covers from Roman to contemporary times with interesting exhibits.

Fantastic experience: Very informative and thorough description of the history of Girona - from the Middle Ages to post World War II. Make sure to use the plastic papers with the descriptions of each section at the beginning of each floor - as the majority of objects don't have English translation! The free audio guide was super useful as well. Overall a very good experience!

Positive experience: Interesting displays.

Fantastic experience: Great

Fantastic experience: Interesting local history museum on several floors

Fantastic experience: Very representative tour of the historical evolution of this impressive city!
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Fantastic experience: Museum about the history of the city of Girona.
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Fantastic experience: Well worth a visit, much larger inside than what it appears to be from the outside. Very interesting, informative and educational.

Fantastic experience: The Girona History Museum is located in the middle of the Old Town, in a building of unique history, this 18th-century museum is worth seeing. So much history.
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Positive experience: A museum that provides a very comprehensive tour of the entire history of Girona with many gadgets and curious things. It has full access to all areas for wheelchairs.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting and surprisingly thorough, it covers the entire history of the city in an engaging and educational way.
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Positive experience: Well preserved and with good museography.
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Positive experience: Well preserved and with good museography.
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Fantastic experience: if you want a historical chronology of Girona with a visual presentation, here it is all in one place, excellent

Fantastic experience: Magnificent free exhibition 'The Bet on New Art' Itineraries of the Avant-Garde in Catalonia through the Rafael and María Teresa Santos Torroella collection.
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Positive experience: Great little local museum, with both modern and ancient artifacts. Free for seniors!

Positive experience: The sense of the visit is not obvious, finding the numbers of the audioguide is difficult. Otherwise, the audioguide is very interesting and very well narrated. Thank you for this very interesting museum.
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Fantastic experience: Loved going to visit the museum, the lady at the front desk was super helpful and spoke a range of languages which was a huge help, really interesting museum highly recommend and really well priced!

Fantastic experience: Essential visit if you want to discover the most significant elements of the historical evolution of Girona. Highly recommended experience.
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Fantastic experience: A magnificent exhibition of the collection of Santos Torroella. Free
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Fantastic experience: Amazing museum that reviews the history of the city

Fantastic experience: Very well worth a visit! Enjoyed all floors. Most of all the cemetery or desiccator of the old Saint Anthony convent of Capuchin friars from the 18th century where the bodies were sat upright for 2 years before being prepared for afterlife. Get out of your comfort zone and widen your horizon!

Fantastic experience: Worth seeing.
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Fantastic experience: Great exhibition despite the small size of the show. Very healing, you can tell it was prepared with feeling and emotion. Thank you so much to those who made it possible!
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Fantastic experience: Very good museum, educational and complete. The room with drawings of the attacks, made by girls and boys during the civil war, is painfully unmissable. Try to take advantage of the free Sunday every month.
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Fantastic experience: I visited it this summer, I was very surprised, it seems like a small building, but it's not. It has three floors and is very complete, a walk through history. Highly recommended in Girona.
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Fantastic experience: Everything is correct, the building is very big and beautiful, now the architect who made the concrete bridge not so many years ago at the top showed off because it is horrible, unstable, and poorly made.
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Fantastic experience: Located in the building that housed the former institute of the city, which was written about by and attended by Josep Pla, the museum features several floors that chronologically organize the history of the city. Notable is the ground floor dedicated to Roman Gerunda and the extraordinarily valuable pieces exhibited there.
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Positive experience: Small, but I really enjoyed walking through the history of the city of Girona, which has so much to offer. True treasures are hidden in the corners of the old town of this beautiful town, reflected in the four floors of the museum. It truly has a lot of charm. I really liked it and we will return.
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Positive experience: It's a pity that this beautiful story is not fully shared in the second most spoken language in the world: Spanish, we had to complete our visit with stories searched on the web in Spanish… with the excuse of COVID you have to read everything on your mobile. Very few explanations… It's worth it if you have plenty of time in Girona…
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Fantastic experience: A tour through the city's history, a marvel.
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Fantastic experience: Fantastic! Well maintained, very well illustrated collection.
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Fantastic experience: It's bigger than it looks, the entrance for UdG students is free. It was a good experience and I could learn a lot about the history of Girona.

Fantastic experience: I haven't been inside.

Fantastic experience: We liked it a lot and it was free because it was the first Sunday of the month
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Fantastic experience: Very cool and complete. It takes 2-3 hours to walk through. Standard price 4€, reduced fare 2€.
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Positive experience: Very interesting, well preserved, and the service is very friendly.
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Fantastic experience: I greatly enjoyed the visit.
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Positive experience: Small museum in a nice building about the history of the city. A bit uncomfortable to navigate. The explanations are only in Catalan.
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Fantastic experience: In a small space, you enjoy a broad journey through the history of our city. You see authentic pieces very well preserved, which alone narrate significant events. You travel through time the various changes, struggles, achievements, advancements, projects, and improvements of our city, which still retains the vestiges of its past and confidently heads towards the future. This museum allows us to keep the vibrant history of our region alive, allows us to know each other and therefore understand where and why we project our future.
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Fantastic experience: Very efficient in terms of visitor service, super clean, the museum is interesting and very well located in the old town of Girona, excellent.
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Positive experience: Manor house of the Cartellà family; convent of Capuchin friars, secondary education institute, air raid shelter, and finally the headquarters of the Girona history museum. A building that is already history on its own, but which also hosts an exhibition on the history of the city of Girona from Roman times to the present day, organized chronologically. A highly recommended museum but unfortunately has some areas for improvement, *Being a multi-story building with narrow hallways and stairs, it is not recommended for people with reduced mobility. *The explanations of the objects and the history are in Catalan. For my part, I had no problem, (I speak, read, and understand Catalan), but I think that for a museum of this category it is unacceptable not to have explanations in more languages. A highly recommended museum to learn a bit more about the history of one of the most beautiful cities in the country.
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Fantastic experience: Very good
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Positive experience: Very interesting for all those who want to learn about the history of the city from Roman times to the 20th century. For someone with a physical disability, it can be a bit complicated
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Positive experience: A small interesting museum. !!!
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting.
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Positive experience: It's not what I would highlight the most from the visit to Girona, but it's not bad. However, if you don't understand Catalan, it's advisable to bring your mobile to use the audio guides since most things are only in Catalan. Very friendly staff.
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Positive experience: A place that definitely needs to be visited in Girona, the first Sunday of the month entry is free
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Fantastic experience: Very nice and beautiful. We enjoyed it a lot and we are recommending it to everyone.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting. With many topics about the history of Girona.
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Fantastic experience: It's the best place to understand the city, I would even go as far as recommending a visit instead of hiring a guide; if you visit it first, you'll understand the city very well when touring around the old quarters.

Fantastic experience: The Girona History Museum is a place I discovered recently and I wish I had found it earlier. They offer discounts for students and others, and because I am from Girona, admission is free. It is very large and explains the history of Girona in detail, from its Roman origins to the present day. It features all kinds of exhibits and very interesting texts. I totally recommend it to anyone interested in the history of the city.
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Fantastic experience: The last exhibition was quite interesting, it was about the museums under the bombs, which is about the Catalan art that went into exile during the Spanish Civil War
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Positive experience: Nice collection of artifacts, including a book press and some one century old heavy machinery. An awesome Roman mosaic. Wandering through the place, you do get a sense of what Girona has lived through, too bad the explanation on display was in Catalan only.

Positive experience: It is interesting and provides a general summary of all the stages of Girona, but I think it lacks a bit of interaction (now complicated due to COVID) but before it had the same format. Maybe it would be good to have an introductory video about the city of Girona.
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Positive experience: Located in a Capuchin convent, we can see the journey of the history of Girona, from Roman times to the 20th century. I quite liked it although due to covid the explanatory brochures in other languages are not available, and I understand that those who do not understand Catalan may have a bit of difficulty. Everything is presented in a very educational way, my favorite room is the one from the 20th century, where we can see even a 600. Entering through the entrance of the square to the side, we can visit the part dedicated to temporary exhibitions, this time about how efforts were made to protect the museum heritage before and during the Civil War, very interesting.
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Positive experience: Very interesting.
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Fantastic experience: Very nice museum. Maximum visit duration is one hour. Bring a mobile phone for the audio guides because the cards are in Catalan. The person who attended us was very friendly.
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Positive experience: It shows a retrospective of Girona from the Roman era to the present day, interesting to see.
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Positive experience: Very interesting, both in design and content. Accessibility to the different levels (four floors) is a problem.
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Positive experience: I imagined it to be larger, but it was worth visiting.
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Fantastic experience: Small museum that offers interactive content about the history of the city. The ticket is not expensive and for students it's half price. ;-)

Positive experience: The first Sunday of every month is free and I'm glad I went that day because otherwise I would have regretted spending €4 in vain. There are no audioguides or anyone to give you a tour. And since some things are only in Catalan, it makes it a bit difficult to understand. The visit felt eeeeendless and I'm one of those people who takes hours in museums to truly understand them, but when you don't enjoy them, as was the case, you consider that it would have been a better idea to have visited another museum instead of this one.
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Positive experience: interesting
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Fantastic experience: It is the chronology of a very intense story spanning over 2000 years - Roman - medieval - modern and current civilization. A history with a lot of epic due to being a city heavily besieged by numerous armies.
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Positive experience: It's well resolved, but as Lluís Bosch Marti would say (or not), it's of a social-democratic tendency.
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Fantastic experience: Informative and user friendly. Staff on reception helpful and well informed.

Fantastic experience: It is very educational, very visual and harmonious. The curation is very good, recommended to go to learn about the great history that is hidden in this beautiful region.
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Fantastic experience: Interesting place

Fantastic experience: Fascinating collections depicting the history of the City, and beautifully displayed. An oasis of cool and calm after the strong heat and crowds outside. Thank you. Jeanie

Positive experience: It's fine but... There are broken screens or ones where you can fiddle with the computer; other than that, it's fine.
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Fantastic experience: Very good museum to understand the history of Girona
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Fantastic experience: Very good
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Positive experience: Lovely museum but a bit hit and miss in the layout.

Positive experience: I loved it
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Fantastic experience: We really enjoyed the exhibition of photographs by the great Fargnoli, one of the pioneers of photographic imagery, made with care. A journey through time in our land.
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Fantastic experience: A very good way to learn about the history of these Dutch pioneers who bravely and courageously brought and donated their culture to the city of Holambra. The museum contains historical records collected among the pioneers. There you can experience through photos and objects what the early days of Holambra were like. It is worth visiting this precious memorial.

Positive experience: Such a pity that the exhibits lack a description in English... Unfortunately, it isn't the first time that we encounter this in Cataluña. As it is, it is difficult to appreciate what one sees. Nevertheless, it is worth the entrance fee and some of the exhibits (especially in the medieval area) are really interesting.

Fantastic experience: Essential, authentic jewels of the past and the importance of Girona in the Middle Ages.
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Fantastic experience: It was very beautiful and rich in both Girona and Catalan heritage... I was very pleased with this visit and getting to know the collections and history of the city of Girona

Fantastic experience: Very interesting, very spacious (with several floors) and with a lot of information. I can't finish it in one day. It's also good for taking some photos. The staff is friendly, and being from Girona, the access is free.
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Fantastic experience: The Girona History Museum is even more appealing if you visit it during the Flower Festival, where it is adorned with magnificent floral decorations. A highly recommended visit to gain insight into the historical origins of the city and its evolution and changes up to the present day, going through all its historical periods.
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Fantastic experience: Very good
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting

Fantastic experience: A place where there is a lot to see and know.
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Positive experience: A bit bland but a good selection of exhibitions. The building itself is beautiful and just for that it is worth the visit.
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Positive experience: Very good museum. 2€ / students
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Positive experience: Very good option to learn about the history of the city.
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Positive experience: Very good. There is extraordinary artistic content. I recommend the visit.
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Fantastic experience: Very informative museum with well done exhibits covering the history of Girona from Roman times to the present. Cards with translations available for each section.

Positive experience: Interesting although it may not be very extensive.
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Positive experience: Very interesting, it's worth visiting
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Positive experience: Museum limited by space. Interesting collection of furniture and writings by Carles Rahola among others.
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Positive experience: The city history museum is located in the narrow stone streets of the old part of the fortified medieval Old Quarter, known as Barri Vell, which has the remains of the Roman fortress Força Vella and, probably, it would be somewhat difficult to find it. We, passing by with our tour, peeked into a small inner courtyard of the museum, but we did not return here in our free time, contenting ourselves with the guide's stories about the glorious history of the prestigious city of Girona. Here, history prevails, any ordinary person would say, and we are among them. I love such old parts of ancient cities! Visit this little museum if you find it interesting!
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Positive experience: Interesting little museum, nice way to escape the heat for 45mins. Only a few exhibits with English translations but still informative.

Positive experience: A pleasant and educational museum, it narrates the entire history of Girona chronologically from various perspectives. The museographic material looks from another era but still fulfills its informative and educational function. The rooms have brochures with explanations in different languages because the exhibition is conducted in Catalan. It is a recommended visit if you go to Girona and want to know its origin and evolution. The young man at the reception was very kind to us. It is a recommended visit for children from 6-7 years old.
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Fantastic experience: The museum offers numerous exhibitions and in addition to its great historical collection, the thematic rooms cover the history of Catalonia from prehistory. It is a must-visit for any tourist and lover of world cultures.
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Positive experience: Good place but some pieces are replicas, one example is the piece of Roman statue. And from the civil war period there is little, it seems that many things are missing.
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Positive experience: Interesting museum, everything is well explained, maybe one misses having an audio guide.
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Positive experience: Informative, with lots about different periods in history.

Fantastic experience: It is very educational. Congratulations to the museum designer who created it.
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Fantastic experience: excellent
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Positive experience: Interesting museum if you want to learn about the history of Girona. Notable contemporary history, I especially liked the part about the Spanish Civil War and the transition. It's not worth paying €10 for the ticket, but I do recommend taking a look if it is free (first Sunday of each month)
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Fantastic experience: Very good collection of artefacts and resources about Girona, but its lack of inter-activity makes it slightly dated. However, for many this might be an advantage. It has a certain traditional charm and the sections on the effects of the Franco regime locally are moving.

Positive experience: Museum that offers a very educational tour through the history of Girona, well maintained, very interesting.
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Positive experience: It is one of the highlighted buildings to visit in the center, in the old town of Girona, and it occupies an old Capuchin friary. Inside, there are mainly reviews about the history of the city of Girona with traditional objects, costumes, dolls, and even cars and motorcycles from a few years ago. It doesn't seem worth it too much, there are more interesting places in Girona. I visited the tourist area so early that this time the museum was closed to the public, but I don't regret it, I had more time to enjoy the streets and outdoor monuments.
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Positive experience: A very good museum. It highlights the history of 19th-century industrialization.
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Positive experience: Small museum of the city's history, not worth visiting unless you are very bored and need to kill about 15 minutes.
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Positive experience: Interesting if you want to learn about the evolution of the city up to the present day. It is just a few meters from the Cathedral.
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Positive experience: Very limited
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Positive experience: To get to know the city's history a little better
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