{"id":69034,"date":"2016-07-02T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=69034"},"modified":"2016-07-02T13:54:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:54:51","slug":"museu-del-mamut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/museu-del-mamut\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit to the Museu del Mamut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Located on the Carrer de Montcada in <strong>Barcelona&#8217;s<\/strong> Gothic Quarter, close to major <strong>museums<\/strong> such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/museu-picasso\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Museu Picasso<\/em><\/a> and the <em>Museu Europeu d&#8217;Art Modern<\/em>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/museobarcelona.com\/tag\/precio-entrada-museo-del-mamut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Museu del Mamut<\/em><\/a>, or &#8216;<strong>Mammoth Museum<\/strong>&#8216; of Barcelona is small by comparison and easy to overlook. Nevertheless, it is certainly worth visiting, particularly if you have an interest in paleontology and prehistory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/museu-blau\/\" target=\"_blank\">Museu Blau &#8211; Barcelona&#8217;s blue museum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Tabla de contenidos<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/museu-del-mamut\/#Background-to-the-museum\" title=\"Background to the museum\">Background to the museum<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/museu-del-mamut\/#A-tour-of-the-Museum\" title=\"A tour of the Museum\">A tour of the Museum<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Background-to-the-museum\"><\/span>Background to the museum<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-69356 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/en\/2016\/05\/Cave-paintings-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Reproductions at the Museo del Mamut, Barcelona 2011\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Mammoth<\/strong> remains dating from the last <strong>Ice Age<\/strong> have been found near the town of Viladecans just outside of Barcelona. Elsewhere in the Iberian peninsula, as far south as Granada, many <strong>Mammoth<\/strong> skeletons have been discovered, some of which are more than 25,000 years old. This demonstrates that modern Spain was once a snow and ice-covered wilderness, a climate in which the <strong>Mammoth<\/strong>, and other <strong>Ice-Age<\/strong> fauna such as sabre-tooth tigers and bison, flourished. They inhabited the region until the end of the last <strong>Ice Age<\/strong> (around 10,000 BC). They lived alongside human beings, who have left clues to how they live in their rock art, a fine example of which is found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.museodealtamira.mcu.es\/Prehistoria_y_Arte\/la_cueva.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Altamira cave<\/a> in Cantabria. The paintings of this cave have been reproduced in the <strong>museum<\/strong>, along with scale models of <strong>Ice-Age<\/strong> mammals and examples of their skeletons, bones and tusks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/cosmocaixa-science-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\">CosmoCaixa Science Museum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A-tour-of-the-Museum\"><\/span>A tour of the Museum<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-69357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/en\/2016\/05\/sabre-tooth-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"sabre tooth\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The entrance hall houses a scale model of a woolly mammoth with real tusks. The sheer size of these beasts, which could weigh more than six tons, can be appreciated here. All the skeletons and tusks housed in the <strong>museum<\/strong> are genuine, and along with the animals you will find the skeleton of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neanderthal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Neanderthal<\/a> man. Other <strong>Ice-Age<\/strong> animals on display include a musk-ox, bison and cave bear. There is also a fossilized baby mammoth which died 41,800 years ago when it became trapped in a waterlogged area and drowned. The mud and silt which covered it helped to preserve the remains, and is quite heart-rending to look at, even after so many millennia. The reproductions of the <strong>Altamira cave paintings<\/strong> are not of the best standard, though they still illustrate the subjects and style of painting which our ancient ancestors used, such as hand-print paintings made using blow-pipes, and depictions of bison and horses. The fundamental nature of this art inspired Catalan artists such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/joan-miro\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mir\u00f3<\/strong> <\/a>and <strong>T\u00e0pies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are guides available in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/english-doctors\/\" target=\"_blank\">English<\/a><strong>,<\/strong> and the museum contains a wealth of information about earth&#8217;s prehistory, and the creatures of the last <strong>Ice-Age<\/strong>. The many reproductions of animals are also fascinating for children, and you will often find school-groups in there being introduced to the collection by the <strong>museum&#8217;s<\/strong> knowledgeable staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located on the Carrer de Montcada in Barcelona&#8217;s Gothic Quarter, close to major museums such as the Museu Picasso and the Museu Europeu d&#8217;Art Modern, the Museu del Mamut, or &#8216;Mammoth Museum&#8216; of Barcelona is small by comparison and easy to overlook. Nevertheless, it is certainly worth visiting, particularly if you have an interest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":550517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52550],"tags":[54376,60220,62960],"class_list":["post-69034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visiting","tag-barcelona-museums","tag-gothic-quarter","tag-montcada-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}