Do I need to stay with my child, or can I drop them off?

You stay. It's run as a family activity, so at least one adult joins each child for both the gallery walk and the hands-on part.

Is it a sit-down workshop or do we walk around?

Both. You start with a guided walk through the museum's rooms, then finish in a classroom for the practical smelling part, so kids aren't sitting still the whole time.

Some of the smells are meant to be nasty, will that bother my kid?

Alongside pleasant perfumes you'll sniff some deliberately foul odors tied to mummification. Most kids laugh at the gross-out moments, but a child who hates strong smells may find it hard.

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Clean and Tidy: Smells, Scents and Odors in Ancient Egypt

When: Dates to be announced
Ages: From 7 years old
Price: €10, booking required

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ExhibitionEixample

Where

Eixample, Museu Egipci de Barcelona

Ages

From 7 years old

Duration

1.5h

Setting

Indoor

Language

Catalan

What you need to know

Hands-on scent lab, kids smell and name real reconstructed Egyptian products after touring the galleries
An adult stays too, it's a family activity and children can't take part on their own
Needs eight to run, a session with fewer than 8 participants is postponed

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Travel back to ancient Egypt and discover the surprising scents of daily life and mummification, then smell them yourself in the museum's hands-on scent lab.

€10, booking required

Dates to be announced

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Where it is

Museu Egipci de Barcelona

Carrer de València, 284, Barcelona

Getting there

Metro: Passeig de Gràcia L2/L3/L4 (5 min walk), Diagonal L3/L5 (5 min walk), Provença (7 min walk)
Bus: Pau Claris-Arago (3 min walk), Pg de Gràcia - Aragó (3 min walk), Pg de Gràcia - Consell de Cent (3 min walk)

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