Museu de la Xocolata

The Chocolate Museum is a dynamic facility promoted by the Barcelona Provincial Confectionery Guild and located in the former Sant Agustí monastery. It provides a journey through the origins of chocolate, its arrival in Europe and its spread as an element between myth and reality, its medicinal properties and nutritional value, relating tradition with the future and forming part of our collective imagination.

The Chocolate Museum is located in a historic building that already had a relationship with chocolate: in the 18th century the Bourbon army was a fanatical consumer of chocolate and, according to the ordinances, chocolate was present on the menus of the 18th-century military academies: “For breakfast each cadet and company officer shall be given one and a half ounces of chocolate with a quarter of a pound of bread...”. When the troops were in barracks, acting as garrison, chocolate was also commonly eaten. The halberdier corps, the monarch’s personal bodyguard, was enviously known as the “chocolateros”, because, as they were a pampered, elite corps, they consumed a great deal of chocolate.

ACCESSIBILITY

All the museum is adapted to disabled people.

Please contact the staff for further information.

HOW TO REACH

Parking
> There is a private car park in Carrer Comerç itself, before reaching our building
> We recommend looking for parking in Passeig de la Circumval·lació and/or Passeig de Picasso. (Check times and payment zones.)


Getting to the Chocolate Museum on public transport
> Jaume I station (Metro L4)
> Arc de Triomf station (Metro L1)
> Buses 39, 40, 42, 45, 51, 120, H16, V15 and V17

ADMISSION

Admission to the Chocolate Museum
> Individual admission: €5
> Group admission (15 or more people): €4


Discounts
> Unemployed and retired people and students (with accreditation): 15%
> Disability Card: 20%
> Rose Card: 10%
> Young People’s Card: 20%
> Barcelona Libraries Consortium: 20%
> RACC (master and junior): 20%
> Barcelona Provincial Council workers: 20%
> Official Association of Pharmacists: 20%
> Members of tr3sc (+ companion): 20%
> Large family card: 5%


Check other discounts with the museum

*The promo and discounts are not accumulative

Free
> Under 7s
> Club Super3
> ICOM members
> BCN CARD