Family Cultural Plans in Barcelona This Summer (Including One You Wouldn’t Expect)
Summer in Barcelona has a well-known problem: the queues. Queues at museums, queues at restaurants, [...]
Musical Route Through Barcelona: Where Rock History Begins and Ends
Barcelona is a city that sounds. Not just during festivals or on special nights, but [...]
Rock as protest: from Woody Guthrie to Rage Against the Machine
When music refuses to stay quiet Some songs are not born to be sung at [...]
Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon: the album nobody saw coming
Britain, 1972: a country under pressure In the early 1970s, Britain felt like a place [...]
A school visit to the Museu del Rock: rock, critical thinking and social context
There is a difference between studying history and touching it. Not in a metaphorical sense: [...]
The 60s that changed everything: from Memphis to Liverpool, from blues to global phenomenon
On Union Avenue in Memphis, there was a recording studio so small that musicians bumped [...]
David Bowie, the visionary who didn’t fit in: why he’s central to the “Ahead of Their Time” exhibition
A man who lived in another time Some artists define a decade. A handful of [...]
The British Invasion: The Day the Atlantic Ceased to Be a Musical Frontier
El 9 de febrero de 1964, unos setenta y tres millones de americanos se sentaron [...]
Ahead of Their Time: The Temporary Exhibition that Unites Back to the Future and Visionary Rock
In 1955, Marty McFly takes the stage and plays “Johnny B. Goode” in front of [...]
The best cultural plan this summer in Barcelona (and why the Museu del Rock belongs in it)
Barcelona in summer is a particular kind of overwhelming. The light lasts until ten at [...]