Museu de la Xocolata

Whoa! Your entrance ticket is a small bar of chocolate with your home country’s flag and a Y code. The museum is small. Veerrry small. I was there with a school visit of 20 or so nine year olds so it was crowded BUT I would still go back! I split my hour between the exhibits and the coffee shop/​gift shop. I bought four handmade chocolates, all of which were amazing, as well as a small cup of hot chocolate O. M. G. it was lucious! I also got bars of chocolate for gifts and a tin of chocolate leaves. If you get there when the confectioners kitchen out back is making stuff then you’re in for a treat.
Go for an hour with a friend so you both have an excuse to try more chocolates!,

Chocolate Messi! How cool is that?
Plus a history of Cacao
Tip: when buying chocolates, do not ask for the box, they will cost twice as much. Just ask the salesperson for what you like and have it weighed.

What a cool spot! Learn about the history of chocolate, how its made, why it tastes different when grown in different regions … Check out some cool sculptures made of chocolate and admire the artists works along the way. Your 5 euros admission gets you a chocolate bar that serves as your ticket for admission. The place just reeks of chocolate which gets you all geared up for everything they have in the cases. You do not need to take the tour and go through the museum to buy chocolate or enjoy treats from the bar. In fact, if you don’t care to learn about it, I’d recommend just picking up a few bars or having a hot chocolate (basically a cup of ganache) and pastry right there in the café/​lobby. Prices on their chocolate are really reasonable and it is all delicious!

Loved this. Great couple of hours with lovely sculptures. Reasonably priced entry. Try the hot chocolate. Very very rich!

It’s okay to visit. Definitely not «wow» in any way. The price of 5 euro which includes a chocolate bar probably matches what to expect.

i went to the museu de la xocolata on my holiday in Barcelona and it was great i loved it we got to see lots of chocolate and eat a little to. our ticket was a bar of chocolate sadly it wascdark chocolate but i ate two pieces anyway. they showed some videos about chocolate and then some machines that use to make
the end of the tour they were selling chocolatevwe bought three each and i highly recommend it if your on holiday in Barcelona
by romy flynn age 10

When you first walk in, you see chocolates everywhere. You might think you are just in a store, but there is a museum. It’s very inexpensive and fun to check out. They have a lot of history pieces and quotes from famous people about the use of chocolate. It’s probably an hour museum tops. They have lots of sculpted chocolate, which is just incredible.
We also bought some chocolates and they have been pretty tasty. They are very rich and decadent. You will find a little bit of everything in their store.
I would recommend this if you like chocolate and love learning.

We had a bit of time before we had to leave Barcelona, so we decided to check out this museum. It’s located in a nondescript building and a bit hard to find. We paid the admission, got a bar of chocolate candy, and walked past the cashier and started in the history section. We saw a class being taught on chocolate and some technology exhibits. In the courtyard after we left, we saw a professional dessert school for chefs at work. We returned inside to the bakery and café at the entrance and had … a chocolate croissant, of course.
Good way to kill an hour or so in Barcelona if it’s convenient.

There’s no need to spend the extra Euros to enter the museum when they folks behind the counter are friendly and offering samples! I had a wonderful time browsing the chocolate treats of this café. The items here make for great gifts if you’re willing to lug around bars of chocolate. To add to this place’s high rating is the charming neighborhood that surrounds it. The museum can easily go unnoticed, but I’m thrilled I was able to check this place out during our tight travel schedule.

I as VERY entertained by seeing all the famous architecture of Barcelona made out of chocolate. It smells great, too. The café was fun, nice server, nice selection of drinks and chocolate snacks. Chocolate croissant gets 5 stars, too.

If you love chocolate you will love this place. If you love seeing unique things made out of chocolate you will love this place. If are simply someone looking for something different, you will like this place.
Good
A nice break from walking around; good to visit on rainy or hot day; chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate; good location
Bad
Very small and won’t take you more than 30 minutes to an hour; not too busy
Tip
Try something chocolate to eat or drink while you are there. It may cost more than other places, but it is a unique experience.

This is one of those small thirty minutes and you’ve seen it all type of museums but well set up, thought out, interesting and free of charge to those holding a «Barcelona Card» available at the local tourist information center.
It is about the history of chocolate coming into the Old World with some background about how it was used in the New World. It also has information on the development of the chocolate industry as well as the leading culinary masters of chocolate.

If you love chocolate and are in possession of a Barcelona card, you can enter the Museu de la Xocolata for free. Yes folks, free admission with your Barcelona card. Otherwise, it’s about € 4. The Chocolate museum is just that. A place where the history of chocolate is described and you can view various sculptures made of that delicious substance. The ticket they give you to get in is in fact a chocolate bar. The museum is pretty small but also includes a gift shop and café. We managed to get there via the metro and a bus transfer but you could technically walk there or take a taxi. Just don’t ask the bus driver if he knows where the chocolate museum is. He doesn’t know. Even though he drives by it everyday.
Inside the museum, there are exhibits detailing the origins of chocolate and how it was introduced to Europe through the port of Barcelona. Yes folks, that’s why the museum is here in Barcelona. Go to the museum and try the chocolate in the café. Bathrooms can be found on the third floor of the building. Favorites of the day: UP! house, Chicken Little, and Tom & Jerry sculptures made of chocolate.

It’s off the beaten path and interesting. The Chocolate Museum is an interesting array of chocolate sculptures by different artisans. It is cool to walk around and wander if you have done most of the regular things in Barcelona, but it is a pretty quick museum if you aren’t fascinated by learning about chocolate and seeing it sculpted.
It is nice that your entry is a chocolate bar and really only like 5 Euros.
Kids are also fascinated by this museum, there were two school groups there and the kids were so excited by all of the stuff there.

I would skip the Chocolate Museum, but please, do go to the café. The hot chocolate was the best I’ve had (hence the 4 stars) — thick, rich, creamy, and extremely chocolate-​y. The museum itself was a tad boring, and some of the chocolate sculptures made no sense to me. However, the location is great — in the design district, near the Picasso museum, so it is definitely worth it to get a hot chocolate while you are in the area.

The Museu de la Xocolata allows you to discover various secrets regarding cocoa and chocolate. It’s a unique space, that is operated by a Confectioners Guild, and does a nice job allowing you to travel to the origins of this food, know about the process, and see the works of excellent pastry makers (through a window in the Courtyard) and chocolatiers. There’s also a nice gift shop and small café in front to further sample this tasty goodness. And all the history might be just an excuse to show off the various ornate chocolate sculptures.
The Museu de la Xocolata is located within the historical Convent de Sant Agusti and the architectural details are an extra bonus. In the same Building, also don’t miss the Arxiu Fotographic de Barcelona (2 Floors Up). The we were here, Gayle and I really enjoyed a free exhibit by Jacques Leonard that featured intriguing black and white photos of the Gypsy community in Barcelona.

This is a must visit museum for all the chocolate lovers! You not only learn about the history of chocolate but also get to see amazing sculptures all made of chocolates! They are quite impressive, it must have taken months to make them! The moment you step in you will get mesmerized by the sweet aroma of chocolate! This is one of the best kept secrets of Barcelona, not many locals and tourists know about it. I came here with my Catalan friend 5 years ago and she had never even heard of it until I mentioned it. We stopped at the museum café after the tour and had a delicious cup of hot chocolate. This is a good place to take kids, it’s both educational and fun.

Just like Jessica K said. Calling all chocolate fans! It is small inside but just beautiful work they do with chocolate. It’s amazing. It tells you the history of how chocolate started. Love the ticket being a candy bar. At the end of the self tour you can purchase some chocolate and café.
You can also check out the school behind it. They have see thru glass where the students cook. Now that we missed cause school was not in session.
Thanks go my cousin for taking me here love it everything. Or maybe he was just doing it cause I kept bugging him to go. I think that’s it. LOL.
It’s a must see in BCN. But make sure that it is open. They are closed certain days and I think some seasons they are closed also.

calling out all chocolate fans!
this museum is small but cute!
i had a Barcelona card so got in for free.
i like there ticket idea, it’s a chocolate bar.
the museum displayed some amazing sculptures all made out of chocolate.
theres even a little school where chocolatiers learn to make chocolate.
i was in heaven because the museum smelled like chocolate and chocolate was all around me :)

While not a major Barcelona tourist attraction, this fun little museum is a nice change of pace from all the grand medieval and modernisme art and architecture in the city. You may learn a lot, or only a little, but it is interesting and unique, and the value of the ticket price is good. And who doesn’t love a little xocolata? Your museum ticket is also a chocolate bar!
The museum is divided into several sections through which it is easy to proceed in a unified flow. The front gallery are artifacts and placards detailing the cultural, commercial, and technological history of chocolate, from Mayan times to the industrial age. On the outside wall in the same long room are display cases featuring some modern chocolate creations, such as a Don Quixote scene, a Ben Hur scene, St. George and the Dragon, the Gaudi lizard from Parc Guell, et al (see photos).
Further along is a series of audiovisual rooms, each with a short presentation on the history of chocolate to complement the static displays preceding. Towards the back are some placards and photographs describing the great pastry artists and chocolatiers of Barcelona’s past and present. Also in this section you will find old chocolate-​making machines.
If the ticket-​chocolate is enough to satisfy your sweet tooth, you have a free bit to take with you (or to eat whilst perusing the exhibits, if you can’t wait, like some people I know). If not, the front of the museum, at the beginning and end of the loop, is the museum shop, where you can purchase all types of chocolates and truffles. It’s not as if you can’t buy candies all over town, but since you probably have a xocolata jones after spending all that time in the museum, why not…

Quién dice que los museos tiene que estar ligados al mundo del arte tradicional? A veces nos encontramos con especímenes raros que satisfacen los deseos más primitivos de los seres humanos. En este museo se pueden ver las máquinas que producen este bien tan preciado, además se aprende sobre los diferentes tipos de cacao y se pueden ver auténticas obras de arte hechas totalmente del chocolate, como una carroza romana, con caballos y todo, o la figura del famoso fallecido gorila barcelonés «Copito de Nieve».
Luego de tanto estímulo el paso por la tienda es obligado. Allí te podés llevar a casa desde tradicionales barras de chocolate de muy variadas formas y combinaciones.
Porque la cultura divertida, también existe.

Roda el món i torna al Born: o lo que es lo mismo, da vueltas, visita lugares, descubre cosas nuevas, pero acabarás volviendo al Born, que pese a los cambios y la llamada gentrificación, sigue manteniendo rincones y locales históricos, por suerte.
Y éste es uno de ellos, en parte gracias a que es un museo, en parte gracias a que hacen un chocolate espectacular (llenar bien el buche y dar placer al paladar siempre triunfa). Pero yo sólo os voy a hablar de la cafetería del Museu (el museo está muy bien, hace un gran recorrido por la historia del chocolate, para Charlie de la historia de Roald Dahl y para cualquier aficionado, pero hace tanto que fui que me acuerdo de poco).
Se trata de un buen lugar, diferente de los bares modernos pero también de los bares pepe, para tomar, como no podría ser de otra manera, un chocolate, ¡mmm…, qué rico!, pero también un suizo, chocolate con melindros, batidos, o comprar bombones, piruletas de chocolate, tabletas de chocolate rellenas… ¡Ñam! Las dependientas son la mar de amables y te lo pueden hacer para llevar, para llevar a donde quieras. Y no es nada caro.
Junto a la tienda del museo, es el tercer ángulo del triángulo que completan el Museu de la Xocolata y l’Escola de Pastisseria, así que os podéis imaginar…

Yo no puedo vivir sin chocolate. Debo reconocerlo y lo reconozco. Una onza y se me arregla el día. Y es que esta manjar es para mí un must, algo que toda cocina debería tener, algo que todo paladar debería probar. Entenderéis que adore este museo: está centrado en uno de mis alimentos favoritos, al que devuelve la categoría de Arte. Así con mayúscula.
En este museo comestible se repasan la historia del Chocolate, desde su uso en las tribus indígenas de América hasta su conversión en un alimento delicatessen. También cuenta cómo se elabora: desde la planta de cacao hasta que pasa por las delicadas manos de los maestros chocolateros. El lugar también programa exposiciones sobre este manjar, muchas de corte antropológico y cultural. Los fines de semana organizan talleres de cocina para niños y mayores y es una opción estupenda para pasar un buen y sabroso rato con los más pequeños de la casa.

Como su propio nombre indica, es un museo dedicado al chocolate. En él encontraremos desde su proceso de preparación hasta figuras hechas con este material.
Disponen de un bar donde degustar productos, además de organizar visitas guiadas para escolares, grupos,…