By David Owen
January 30 – Barcelona, one of the two giants of Spanish club football, are claiming that the FC Barcelona Museum has again won the title of most visited in Catalonia, outpulling museums devoted to the famous painters Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí.
An item on the www.fcbarcelona.com website says that its museum, which marked its 30th anniversary last September, attracted 1,530,484 visitors in 2014 – up 1.62% on a year earlier. By comparison, it notes, the Dalí Museum in Figueres was visited by just under 1.3 million people, with the Picasso Museum in Barcelona getting just under 920,000 visitors.
A tour of the club’s famous stadium and the museum, marketed under the label “The Camp Nou Experience”, is priced at €23, with concessions for children and over-70s. Assuming an average entry fee of €20, the Experience would have generated more than €30 million in 2014 in ticket sales alone, the cost of a pretty decent squad member.
According to the club, visitors have included managers from the Roland Garros tennis museum in Paris who, it says, were on “a fact-finding mission”.
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