Whether you’re one of the locals who take advantage of the May long weekend to escape, or if, on the contrary, you celebrate the arrival of spring with all kinds of outdoor plans, this month it’s time to get out of the house and air out those sheets. We leave you here a list of incredible activities and experiences to do this May in Barcelona.
Titanic: The Official Exhibition – The Voyage Continues
200 original objects, recreations of the ship’s hall or cabin, an immersive film about the sinking and an original virtual reality experience. All this and much more offers us the official exhibition of the Titanic, an emotional journey through time and space to an iconic historical event, with enough claims to be an experience as educational as fun and suitable for all audiences.
📍 Location: Espacio Inmersa. C/ Llull, 119
📆 Dates: Open every day
💸 Tickets: from 12,90€.
Paradox Museum
Paradox Museum, despite its name, is much more than a museum. This installation in the heart of Barcelona offers more than 70 paradoxes, 70 mini-exhibitions that test our senses and invite us to take the best selfies and funny videos. A great example of how the educational and the playful can coexist very easily.
📍 Location: Pl. Urquinaona, 3
📆 Dates: Open every day
💸 Tickets: from 16€.
The Night of the Museums
La Nit dels Museus returns to Barcelona with a wide cultural offer. During this day, museums will open their doors, allowing visitors to explore both their permanent and temporary exhibitions, as well as participate in various evening activities such as guided tours, theater performances and workshops for children completely free of charge.
📍 Location: Various museums in Barcelona
📆 Dates: May 17
💸 Tickets: Free!
El Molino
The concert and comedy hall located in Paral-lel offers this month a good mix between top jazz, singer-songwriter and comedy shows, without forgetting the select gastronomic offer, with signature cocktails and tapas to taste at the time of the shows.
These are some of the outstanding events at El Molino this May:
- Friday, May 2 – James Brandon Lewis Trio Concert.
- Thursday, May 15 – Erik Trufazz Concert
- Sunday May 25 – Ambrose Akinmusire Concert
📍 Location: C/ de Vila i Vilà, 99
📆 Dates: various dates of the month, check schedule
💸Tickets : from 15€.
Goya Universe. Between light and darkness
Universo Goya is a complete and immersive exhibition about the great master of painting. In it we can enjoy digital art, different immersive installations, virtual reality and some areas with a moderate use of artificial intelligence, which allows us to give a new perspective on the work of the great painter. The culmination, of course, is to enjoy about thirty of his original engravings and the press he used to print them back in the nineteenth century.
📍 Location: Centre d’Art Amatller. Passeig de Gracia, 41
📆 Dates: Open daily
💸 Tickets: from 10,50€.
SENSAS
Sensas is a multisensory experience that invites us as a group to rediscover sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. This translates into a series of fun challenges that mix the escape room with immersive experiences and partying and are a good activity to do with family, friends or even work colleagues.
📍 Location: C/ d’Entença, 91-93, Bajos 2
📆 Dates: Open every day
💸 Tickets: from 27,70€ per person
Soundit 2025
This May, Barcelona has a double session of Soundit, the 8-hour non-stop, daytime electronic music parties. First, on May 10 with sets by Breixo Martinez, CARISTA, Ivy Barkakati, JADALAREIGN, Kyle Hall, Retromigration and Volcov.
Then, on May 24, with shows on the decks by Robert Hood, ANZ, Tamarindo and Willy.
📍 Location: La Monumental de Barcelona. Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 749.
📆 Dates: May 10 and 24
💸 Tickets: before 5 pm at 21 €. After that time, 25 €.
Alpha5
If you like sports and video games, at Alfa5 you’re in the right place. This XR Sports center (in fact, the largest in the world) offers up to nine experiences that combine physical activity with digital layers. This translates into a mind-blowing soccer 3.0 experience, a virtual fronton, the most original shooting range or Flatball, a highly entertaining team game that you can only try at this center.
📍 Location: c/ Almogàvers, 169
📆 Dates: Open every day except Monday
💸 Tickets: from 12€.
Chandon Secret Garden
Chandon Secret Garden is a natural paradise by the sea where to disconnect, enjoy friends, aperitifs and evenings with the best experiences of the season. An ephemeral garden that becomes the ideal setting to share the moment aperitif with the best Chandon Garden Spritz, refreshing and 100% natural, and accompany it with creative workshops, gastronomy, music, craft market and DJ Sets. Are you coming? Open from May until the end of summer.
📆 Dates: every Saturday creative workshops
💸 Tickets: SOLD OUT
📍Catalina Gavá Mar
Candlelight Spring
Candlelight concerts, music by candlelight, could not be more varied this May. From tributes to legendary bands like ABBA or Beatles to classical composers like Ludovico, Mozart or Beethoven.
Check out the complete May agenda and choose your ideal Candlelight.
📍 Location: Various locations in Barcelona
💸 Tickets: from €17
Docs Barcelona
Barcelona surrenders to the documentary genre with its own festival. This year it will open with the documentary Riefenstahl, by Andres Veiel (based on the life and work of the controversial director), will have Germany as guest country and will pay tribute to the German producer and distributor Heino Deckert. In addition to being able to see top level documentary films, Docs Barcelona offers a meeting place for professionals in the sector to get to know each other and for new projects to emerge.
📍 Location: Several movie theaters in Barcelona
📆 Dates: May 8 to 18
💸 Tickets: 9€.
FIL_IN – Music Residents Showcase
La Fabra i Coats shows off its chest as a factory of creation with this festival, which shows all the musical proposals that are cooked in it. With four sessions still in progress, in each of them we will be able to enjoy three or four performances; we leave you with the agenda:
- Friday, May 2: Glòria Ribera, Las Bajas Pasiones, Balkan Paradise Orchestra.
- Saturday May 3: Amanda Álvaro, La Tia Borracha, Ketekalles.
- Friday May 9: Matilda Mirana, Carlota Flâneur, Heal.
- Saturday May 10: Jornada Subsol (Radi Solar), with Misha1dem, Ominira, La Maga, Senyor Oca.
📍 Location: Fabra i Coats. C/ Sant Adrià, 20
📆 Dates: 2, 3, 9 and May
💸 Tickets: free! (until full capacity)
Bestial Festival
This festival for all ages brings together music (from DJs to rock tributes), gastronomy and creative experiences, such as painting workshops, laboratories, collective murals, DJ and breakdance activities and much more.
📍 Location: Poble Espanyol.
📆 Dates: May 24 and 25
💸 Tickets: from 8€.
Món Llibre
Món Llibre brings literature closer to children, with proposals adapted to their age. A unique opportunity to bring children closer to reading, in a fun and entertaining way.
📍 Location: several places in the city
📆 Dates: May 23, 24 and 25
💸 Tickets: free!
Cursa de El Corte Inglés
Although it is not the only popular race in our city, the cursa has become the most emblematic, both for its route (from Maria Cristina to Plaça Catalunya) and for its 10km, most affordable for amateur runners. Besides, maybe you will meet one of your idols: in 2024 celebrities like Lewandowski or Miki Nuñez participated, which celebrity will we see this year?
📍 Location: Start at Avda. Digonal, 617 (in front of El Corte Inglés Diagonal)
📆 Dates: May 11
💸 F ree registration
Barcelona Sub World Fest
Lovers of maritime sports will have a great time for two days, in which the city surrenders to stand up paddle. If you are a fan of this sport you can join the different competitions adapted to gender, age and level of experience, and if you are curious you can see a show of the most thrilling.
📍 Location: Port Olímpic de Barcelona
📆 Dates: May 24 and 25
💸 Registration: from €25 per category
Barcelona International Disc Fair
The unmissable event for music lovers in physical format is back. For three days, music lovers will be able to buy new records and oldies, as well as enjoy parallel activities such as concerts and, of course, meetings and signings with musicians of today and always.
📍 Location: Estació del Nord. c/ Nàpols, 68.
📆 Dates: May 2 to 4
💸 Tickets: from 5,10€ (day ticket)
BCN in the heights
Gastro offer , fashion and music at the foot of the imposing architecture of Antoni Gaudí. This is the proposal of this fair, an appointment for all those who want to take advantage of the good weather to eat and drink at ease, indulge yourself and let yourself be carried away by the modernist magic.
📍 Location: Torre Bellesguard. Antoni Gaudí C/ Bellesguard, 20
📆 Dates: May 9 to 11
💸 Tickets: from 6€.
Literal Fair
The most critical lletraferits will enjoy this fair, which for two days questions us with talks where literature and thought go hand in hand. Of course, there will be book stands to get hold of the latest novelties, presentations and even live podcast recordings.
📍 Location: Fabra i Coats. C/ Sant Adrià, 20
📆 Dates: May 24 and 25
💸 Tickets: Free!
Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones
This May begins the first volume (the second is in autumn) of this important exhibition that offers us the best audiovisual made by women from all geographies. The theme chosen for this occasion is In strange company, which refers, in the words of the organization, to “cinema that explains the world beyond the abyss, that which, despite the hostility of the times we live in, summons images that underline desire and not fear”.
📍 Location: Various venues in Barcelona and online at Filmin.
📆 Dates: From May 22 to July 18
💸 Tickets: from 4€ (and some free sessions)
Barcelona flashback. A historical synthesis
Barcelona Flashback is the central point of the network of spaces that make up the MUHBA, located in the Casa Padellàs. This exhibition offers a flexible, open and questioning vision of Barcelona’s urban narratives throughout its bimillennial trajectory.
It is a synthesis exhibition that presents the history of Barcelona through a questioning historical reading of documents, objects, architectures and landscapes.
📍 Location: MUHBA Museu d’Història de Barcelona – Plaça del Rei – Casa Padellàs
📆 Dates: All month long
💸 Tickets: normal, 7€; free for children under 16 and other groups.
Art Photo BCN
Art Photo BCN is a contemporary photography festival to connect photographers, industry professionals, collectors and the general public, creating a space to explore, discover and enjoy the image in all its forms. The festival combines a photography fair, a photobook market, portfolio viewings and many more activities.
📍 Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona – DHub. Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38.
📆 Dates: May 23 to 25
💸 Tickets: free!
Setmana Sense Soroll
This original proposal encompasses a series of free activities to raise awareness of noise pollution in Barcelona. This year’s program includes workshops and routes with noise (and silence) in the center. Here you can check the full program.
📍 Location: Various spaces in Barcelona
📆 Dates: from April 28 to May 4
A trip to the Fira Modernista of Terrassa
For three days, Terrassa pays tribute to its modernist heritage, with a whole series of activities to visit the city’s spaces of this style, fairs, live music and the invitation to all citizens to get out their best early twentieth century finery. This year’s edition is dedicated to Lluís Moncunill, a great architectural reference of this trend.
📍 Location: Various spaces in Terrassa (40min from Barcelona by train).
📆 Dates: May 9 to 11
Poblenou Open Day
The dynamic neighborhood of Poblenou celebrates its creativity with this day, in which it opens to the city to offer a sample of all the art that is cooking. For 12 uninterrupted hours you can enjoy a free program for all ages that includes exhibitions, art, design, photography, dance, live music, DJs, talks, workshops, guided tours and gastronomy.
📍 Location: Various spaces in the Poblenou neighborhood.
📆 Dates: May 10th
Petit Mercat de Mercats
Second edition of this space that celebrates the proximity and quality product offering gastronomic workshops (for young and old), esmorzars de forquilla, live music, various activities and even a barbecue area to enjoy freshly made products purchased at the market.
📍 Location: Mercat de Sant Antoni. C/ Comte Borrell with c/ Tamarit.
📆 Dates: May 10 and 11
OFFF Barcelona
OFFF Barcelona offers the perfect meeting point for designers, creatives, students and all kinds of professionals and aspiring professionals in the digital arts sector. It will feature conferences, exhibitions, performances, animation and interactive installations, networking areas and, of course, a bit of partying,
📍 Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona – DHub. Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38.
📆 Dates: May 8 to 10
💸 Tickets: from 153,75€ day tickets
Hotel Tapatour Barcelona
With the formal and informal tapas by flag, Hotel Tapa Tour returns to discover you the cuisine of the restaurants, bars and terraces of the most iconic hotels in Barcelona.
No need to book in advance, you can try several tapas options in hotels like El Palace, Mandarin Oriental, Renaissance, Cotton House, Grand Hyatt Barcelona, Paxton and many more. More info on their website soon.
📍 Location: Several hotels in Barcelona
📆 Dates: May 19 to June 1
💸 Tickets: Free. Tapas from 8 to 14€.