Trying, touching, smelling or seeing something is no longer enough, we want to have it all at once. Immersive experiences are becoming a new form of leisure increasingly widespread in the city with which to live moments that involve all our senses.
From tourist routes in Barcelona that include auditory immersions and theatrical performances to fully audiovisual spaces where we can literally get inside a painting, to museums where nothing is what it seems. Immersive experiences are all the rage, and we bring you the best ones in the city for you to try.
Table Of Contents
- Titanic: The Official Exhibition - The Journey Continues
- Paradox Museum
- SENSAS
- Goya Universe: between light and darkness
- Petra: the glory of the Nabataeans
- Banksy Museum
- The Jury Experience
- Ikono, the immersive museum
- Oca Loka
- Ravel's Bolero at CaixaForum Barcelona
- Stereostory, audio theater excursion around the city.
- Moco Museum
Titanic: The Official Exhibition – The Journey Continues
The official exhibition of the Titanic proposes a journey inside the most famous ocean liner. It will be possible thanks to virtual reality (with which we will be one more passenger), recreations of the ship’s rooms, 200 original objects belonging to its passengers and crew and a spectacular immersive film with which we can relive the great tragedy of its sinking… And all this without the need for lifeboats!
📍 Espacio Inmersa. c/ Llull, 119
💸 f rom 11,90€.
Paradox Museum
This museum of the impossible has more than 70 exhibitions that invite us to experiment with all the senses, to ask questions about the world around us, to see reality through altered perceptions and to discover fascinating scientific concepts.
📍 Pl. Urquinaona, 3
💸 General admission: 18€ / Children and reduced admission: 14€.
SENSAS
It is not an escape room, nor an immersive experience. It is a mix of both concepts and, above all, a playground: here we come to have fun, to enjoy, to leave tensions aside. To understand it, you have to live it with all five senses: SENSAS is made up of different spaces that seek to challenge perception, to play with the senses, with reality. It is two hours of pure exploration, from workshop to workshop.
Some clues: you can enter a labyrinth dedicated to touch, decipher messages with taste and smell, enter an anti-gravity room…
Goya Universe: between light and darkness
After introducing us to the figure of Joaquín Sorolla, Casa Amatller now offers a fun and educational tour through the life and work of the master Francisco de Goya. With digitized art, scenarios, objects of the time, an immersive room and virtual reality, this immersive exhibition makes us travel to the time of the painter and understand why he is one of the most influential figures in the history of art.
Centre d’Art Amatller. Passeig de Gracia, 41
Petra: the glory of the Nabataeans
This virtual reality experience is an affordable and close way to visit one of the great archaeological jewels of humanity. For 10 minutes we will walk through the Pink City with a magical Djinn that will guide us on a journey in which we will levitate, swim and even feel the smells of spices and the breeze of an impending storm. A balanced combination of playful immersive experience and history lesson.
Reial Cercle Artístic. c/ dels Arcs, 5
Banksy Museum
Banksy’ s work is often ephemeral, so some of his installations can no longer be enjoyed. Luckily there are museums that preserve his creations, such as the Banksy Museum in Barcelona, which pays tribute to the artist with more than 150 reproductions of his works. In addition, it puts them in context, so that in addition to enjoying them you can understand them and be part of them, interacting with the space.
Trafalgar Space. c/ Trafalgar 34, PB
The Jury Experience
The Jury Experience begins as a play about a trial, what makes it immersive? Well, no more and no less than that its outcome depends on the audience: after hearing testimonies and accusations, it will be the audience attending the show who will decide whether the accused is guilty or innocent. If you had always wondered what it was like to be part of a popular jury, now you have the chance to experience it without all the problems it entails, only the fun part.
Auditori l’Illa. Avinguda Diagonal, 547
Ikono, the immersive museum
Ikono is another immersive museum that has only been in the city for a short time. In its case, the journey unfolds through a series of unique and impressive environments that reproduce the thrill of traveling to different worlds, cultures and times without having to leave the city.
Among the interactive experiences are the immense futuristic ball pool, the “Room of the Infinite Lanterns“, which offers a surreal walk between lights and shadows in a space suspended in time;“The Lady among the Leaves“, an immersive work of art that traps the visitor in a maze of mirrors or “Light Painting“, inspired by Pablo Picasso’s experiments in painting with light.
Oca Loka
The new craze: a board game (and TV game, for the most nostalgic) brought to real dimensions. This peculiar goose game has those nineties vibes with the peculiar point of social networks (it has already gone viral on TikTok). All we can say is too little: you will have to live it.
Ravel’s Bolero at CaixaForum Barcelona
After the success of the multi-awarded Symphony project, “la Caixa” Foundation presents a new immersive experience. Ravel’s Bolero is based on the classic Bolero, by the same author, and is an immersive journey with virtual reality technology that can now be visited at CaixaForum. Under the baton of maestro Josep Pons and conducted by Igor Cortadellas, you can sit in the center of the orchestra and feel the instruments vibrating around you. We can say that it is one of the most unique immersive experiences we have seen in Barcelona.
Stereostory, audio theater excursion around the city.
We have all toured our city or others in the traditional style: walking behind a guide and stopping to listen to his explanations among the disinterest of the group attendees. But now things are changing with Stereostory, a proposal for immersive tourist routes through the city.
The idea is that groups walk through the city with a special 3D headset, following the voices of professional actors. The story of a rapper girl of our time and a Catalan troubadour of the past will unfold in reality and the streets of the city will become living stages and will be filled with the images of the performance.
Moco Museum
While we all know Moco Museum for its combination of contemporary and digital art, few know that among its most striking attractions is the Diamond Matrix, a fully immersive installation that transforms light and color into a kaleidoscopic spectacle you can enter. In addition, Studio Irma’s Reflecting Forward exhibition navigates concepts such as empathy and the future through immersive digital works.