arts & culture

Barça came home in November 2025, after two seasons of exile up the hill at Montjuïc, and moved back into a stadium that isn’t finished. Around 62,000 seats are in use at Spotify Camp Nou while the third tier and the roof go up; once the cranes leave, sometime around 2027, capacity should pass 100,000 and make it the largest football ground in Europe.

The museum – trading these days as the Barça Immersive Tour – has decamped to the club’s ice rink beside the stadium while the work continues, with the entrance between the Barça Café and the club store. Inside is the full sweep of the club since 1899: the trophies, the shirts, the era-by-era retelling, ending in a 500-square-meter projection room, the largest in any European sports museum. A million visitors a year pass through, and the whole collection moves into the stadium proper once there’s a finished stadium to receive it.

Tickets start from €28 for the museum, an audio guide and the construction viewpoint – a platform over the building site, and the best reason to come right now. Watching a 100,000-seat bowl take shape is something the finished version won’t offer. From there you can add a penalty round against a robot goalkeeper, a VR tour of the club’s universe or a guided climb into the stands for the panoramic view. Stepping onto the grass itself is reserved for the match-day tour, offered only when there’s a game.

Culers (the Barça faithful) will make the pilgrimage regardless. For everyone else, the building site is the draw – go before they finish it.