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 you 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.
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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 discover fascinating scientific concepts.
📍 Pl. Urquinaona, 3
💸 General admission: 18€ / Children and reduced admission: 14€.
Bubble Planet
This April 27th will open its doors Bubble Planet a wonderland, a wonderland in which each room is a different experience full of color, bubbles, bubbles, bubbles, clouds …. A space obviously dedicated by and for Instagram and to spur the imagination.
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…
America’s Cup Experience
Live the emotions of a sailing competition, understand the sport from its history, its milestones, technology and the sea: this is the goal of America’s Cup Experience, a space that from Port Vell and looking at the Mediterranean delves into the world of sailing to immerse yourself in it through the latest technology and its interactive rooms.
Oca Loka
The new rage: 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 tell you 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.
Hidden Evidence: A Murder Mystery Experience
This is a life-size mystery game: an experience in the Silk House to go through, room by room, interrogating suspects, looking for clues, making deductions, racking your brains to guess who has murdered the High Priestess. In this spin-off of Murder Mystery you will have to immerse yourself in this universe of suspicions and crimes and become a detective for a day.
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.
Ikono, the immersive museum
Ikono is another immersive museum that has just opened in the city. 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.
Moco Museum
Although 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 that you can enter. In addition, Studio Irma’s Reflecting Forward exhibition navigates concepts such as empathy and the future through immersive digital works.