Barcelona - North Districts

The Catalan Museum for the History of Pharmacy is part of the Faculty of Pharmacy.

The Collegi de les Teresianes is the parent convent of the sisterhood of Teresa, which takes its name from St Teresa of Avila (1515-82).

The building of the college had already been started when in 1888 Antoni Gaudí was commissioned to complete it.

Measured against other works by the architect the Collegi de les Teresianes is of unwonted sobriety - a concession to the rule of the order. The brick-built pointed arches of the facade, particularly on the top story, point to Gothic models.

The buildings house a school and therefore access to the public is limited.

The history of the Spanish comic is traced from the 19th century to the present. A wide variety of publications are also presented providing insight into the illustration industry.

The museum displays a variety of fossils, meteorites, local minerals, coprolites, a dinosaur egg and a Catalan palaeontology collection.

The forested topography of Guinardó Park is oriented towards the four cardinal points.

Criminology Museum of the University Law Faculty.

Vehicle collection of the Municipal Department of Works.

As well as the one in the Museu de la Ciència Barcelona has another planetarium in the Carrer de les Escoles Pies. By means of complicated projection apparatus practically every conceivable phenomenom and constellation in the heavens can be portrayed. Computer technology facilitates impressive audio-visual simulations. Demonstrations are excellently supervised and accompanied by expert commentary.

The Museu d'Història de la Medicina de Catalunya houses in fourteen rooms some 2,500 exhibits illustrative of the principal developments in medical practice, especially in anatomy, epidemiology, physiology and bacteriology. Special exhibitions can be seen in the basement. The foundation which supports the museum also conducts specialist events for medical students.

The Museu i Center d'Estudis de l'Esport is housed in a building, dating from the Modernistic period, which was used by Dr Melcior Colet as his consulting rooms and private clinic. In 1982 he made it into a foundation which bears his name and which serves the needs of sport and its cultural importance.

Today the museum houses a variety of exhibitions on various sporting themes (mostly with Catalonian connections). In addition it is the headquarters of a scientific sports research institute.