The Museum of the History of Barcelona (MUHBA) already has a long history: conceived during the first third of the 20th century and prefigured in the Barcelona Pavilion of the International Exhibition of 1929, it finally located its main headquarters in 1943 at the Casa Padellàs and at the Plaza del Rey. Its function is to conserve, study, document, disseminate and exhibit the historical heritage and history of Barcelona from its origins to the present day.

The MUHBA depends on the Barcelona City Council through the Institute of Culture of Barcelona (ICUB) and brings together a whole set of different heritage spaces relevant to the history of the city. These spaces are connected with the contents they exhibit, making dialogue between history and heritage, and are distributed throughout the different neighborhoods and districts of the city.