Spain Day 14e - Sagrada Familia Museum

 The museum is an excellent look at Gaudi and the work that has gone into fabricating the Sagrada Familia for over one hundred years.

A great timeline on the history of the structure.

The base measurement inside the Sagrada Familia is 7.5 meters and everything is a multiple of that measurement. That is why everything feels so symmetrical and balanced.

A photo of the Sagrata during construction, when it was on the outskirts of Barcelona in the new Exiample district.

This is one of the original 84 bells used in the Sagrada. They could cover seven octaves, like a piano does, and produce the sound inside and out. It is the only original bell that exists today and was rung on the day Gaudi was buried.

This is a model of the interior of the Sagrada. It is a string model with weights and would have had a mirror on the bottom, so that he can observe what the structure would look like. The string model also helps determine how each support assists each other for engineering the Sagrada.

Gaudi's tomb.

The workshop. Not only is 3D printing used for making models to try ideas but 3D printing is used on stonework to build the cathedral.

This is an overall plan of the footprint of the Sagrada.