In 1986, the city council created the municipal museum in the Balldovina Tower, from which it takes its name. The Museum was inaugurated in 1987.
The Balldovina Tower Museum is a local multidisciplinary museum responsible for protecting, preserving, studying and disseminating the cultural and natural heritage of Santa Coloma de Gramenet. With the desire to offer a service to all citizens of Santa Coloma, it collaborates with the public and private entities that together foster the cultural and civic life of the city.
The Museum both houses collections that form part of the city’s history and strives to safeguard the monumental heritage of Santa Coloma preserved in situ. Of special note is themajor collection devoted to the Iberian world linked to the Puig Castellar Settlement.
The principal exhibition, ‘Santa Coloma: the mountain, the river, the city’, constitutes a journey into local history, from the time of the Iberian settlement at Puig Castellar down to the present day.
Free admission
Tuesday to Saturday, from 6 pm to 8.30 pm
Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, from 11 am to 2 pm
Mondays and the month of August, closed
July, Tuesday to Saturday, from 5 pm to 9 pm
By metro: L1 (red), Santa Coloma station, and L9 (orange) Can Peixauet station:
By bus: 42, B14, B15, B18, B19, B20, B27, B31, B80 and B84
By car: Ronda litoral B10, exit 30 (Bon Pastor - Santa Coloma de Gramenet)
Parking available in the museum itself (access via Carrer de la Cultura or from Plaça de Pau Casals / Carrer de Sant Carles)