The Barcelona Chocolate Museum is an initiative of Gremi de Pastisseria de Barcelona (Barcelona pastry guild) that offers a journey from the origin of cocoa to the legend, history,  radition, and craftsmanship of Catalan pastry and chocolate.

Claiming Barcelona as a chocolate capital, the museum nurture the five senses with a unique exhibition of chocolate figures, temporary exhibitions, activities, workshops, and tastings for all ages, and a tasting area where artisanal chocolate is the protagonist.

The museum is in a building of great historical and heritage value, the old Convent de Sant Agustí in the Born district. The convent, built in the 14thcentury, was intricately linked to the city and the guilds until it was partially destroyed during the War of Succession and converted into a military barracks. In 1980, the Barcelona City Council recovered the space and used it for educational, social, and cultural entities such as Fundació del Gremi de Pastisseria de Barcelona (Barcelona pastry guild foundation).

The Barcelona Chocolate Museum highlights the relationship between the city and chocolate that dates to the arrival of cocoa in Europe in the sixteenth century, with a decisive role of the port of Barcelona as a point of distribution and commercialization. The transformation of cocoa into chocolate has played a key role in the economic and social fabric of the city, from the mills that filled the city in the eighteenth century to the first main chocolate brands of the nineteenth century and the emergence of artistic work with chocolate in the twentieth century.

Barcelona is and has been a chocolate city with its own personality, a legacy that the Barcelona pastry guild preserves, researches, and disseminates through the Chocolate Museum.