Barcelona Guide
The Ramblas
Museu de Cera
Address: 4–6 Rambla de Santa Mònica; the entrance is along Passatge. de Banca
Opening time: July– Sept daily 10am–10pm; Oct– June Mon– Fri 10am–1.30pm & 4–7.30pm, Sat & Sun 11am–2pm & 4.30–8.30pm
Price: €6.65
Website: www.museocerabcn.com
Telephone: 933 172 649
Located in the cavernous salons and gloomy corridors of an impressive nineteenth-century bank building, this wax museum presents ever more ludicrous tableaux, depicting recitals, meetings and parlour gatherings attended by an anachronistic – not to say perverse – collection of personalities, film characters, heroes and villains. Thus Yasser Arafat lectures Churchill, Hitler and Bill Clinton, while a concert by Catalan cellist Pau Casals numbers Princess Diana and Mother Theresa among the audience. It's extremely ropey and enormously amusing, culminating in cheesy underwater tunnels and space capsules and an unpleasant "Terror" room. You won't want to miss the extraordinary grotto-bar, the Bosc de les Fades.