The cannabis museum, with 6500 pieces, shows the versatility of the crop, from soft drugs to industrial use. Occupies 900 square meters on the raised Palau Mornau, which exhibits five centuries of history.
Hemp Museum new opening in Barcelona
The Hemp Museum is a space dedicated to inform and to bring visitors to the plant of cannabis as a versatile source for industrial, nutritional, medicinal, sacramental and recreational. The museum's official opening is this Friday although will debut tonight with the awards ceremony of Cannabis Culture, which will be among the winners of the entrepreneur Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group and member of the World Commission on policy drugs. A staunch advocate of the decriminalization of cannabis.
The spectacular museum comes eight years after the decision of Ben Drunkers (Amsterdam museum founder of an empire and legal plantation and industrial uses of hemp) to convert in Barcelona in birthplace of the world's largest gallery. His will was linked to find, almost accidental, the sensational Palau Mornau, XVI century. In 2002 was a decaying building with neoclassical and modernist sparkles, but with the weight of withdrawal after having hosted Cultural Xarxa. The Dutch started slowly potentate the resurrection project, which took his run in the last four years.
The result of lifting led by architect Jordi Romeu, who has given life to their windows and hand-painted ceilings, already worth visiting, beyond the historical treasures now sheltering.
What to See? For anything related to cannabis. Enjoy it those who want to delve into the properties and characteristics of this soft drug (as much as entertainment as therapy for numerous diseases, beginning with cancer), as well as industrial use. Without going further includes exposure seventeenth century frescoes showing that smoking marijuana is part of the daily life of the time, such as gadgets that explain wove cloth ...
The visit costs 9 € the first month, for the citizens of Barcelona 5 €.