Herbaria and very natural bookmarks, at the Historic Botanical Garden
The Science Museum organizes family activities at the site located behind the National Art Museum of Catalonia.
The whole family is invited on Saturday mornings, until next November 8, to discover the Historic Botanical Garden—located just behind the National Art Museum of Catalonia—and to spend a good time doing nature-related activities at the Jugateca ambiental. On the next dates (September 6 and 13), they propose making a very natural bookmark and beginning to put together your own herbarium.
It is all an initiative of the Barcelona Museum of Sciences, responsible for the city’s oldest botanical garden site (there is another one on the same Montjuïc hill). In the historic site, as you’ll see, a quarry hollow was used to create a delightful garden that holds some of the tallest trees in the city.
On the other side of the garden, you’ll rediscover the building of a typical Catalan farmhouse, built for the 1929 Exhibition and still in use today. In front of the building, workshops are held with family activities that invite participants to come into direct contact with nature.
Thus, on Saturday, September 6, children between 3 and 10 years old will be encouraged to take inspiration from nature, and more specifically from the products grown in this garden’s orchard, to create a bookmark as natural or nature-themed as possible.
Return the following Saturday, September 13, and they will invite you to begin a collection of leaves and herbs—in other words, they will teach you how to make your own herbarium.
Building a tic-tac-toe game with the seeds produced in the garden’s orchard (September 20), or making a natural, pleasantly scented modeling clay (September 27), are some other activities planned for this September.
If you want to come play and learn, drop by the Jugateca ambiental of the Historic Botanical Garden on Saturday mornings—but first, check the Barcelona Museum of Sciences website for all the information about the program.