Museum of Funeral Carriages — Attraction in Barcelona

The museum is free, so cannot really argue about the price, but there are no drinks, no coffee, no sandwiches, no wifi, no a.c., I could've died of multiple reasons there but...pun intended..i kinda was in the right place to do so.

For the entry carriages they had horses but not the ones fancy with fur and marble eyes and so... No no.. The ones like the mannequins at shops, hard cheap plastic.

All the carriages were nice and pretty cool, and I have to admit I was impressed of the care for a nice ride. All carriages had extra tender suspensions with metal sheets. Many more and more complicated than the ones in the city for the living clients.

The wife loved it, she is a bit into dark stuff and this was right...

I highly recommend to visit the museum on Sunday afternoon, just before its closing hour, and then take the last bus 107 which departs at 14:00 from the bus stop just in front of the museum. The bus navigates all the way through the Montjuic (please imagine the second dot there) cemetery uphill. It's a lovely panoramic route and the cemetery itself is very picturesque. Once the bus takes you to the top of the hill, you can exit the cemetery through the upper gate and reach the Montjuic fortress by easy walk in 20 minutes, just before 15:00 which is when they start letting people in for...

Fantastic display of horse drawn hearses and carriages, plus 3 motor vehicles. The items were very well laid out with detailed explanations of each one and what it was used for. For example the white hearse were predominantly used for children as the mortality rate at the time for them was very high. Free entry as well, and the staff were very knowledgeable and very friendly, and are a credit...