The Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món’s Parc Montjuïc is located at one end of the Laribal Gardens, in Parc Montjuïc, on the site of the original museum, the Colla d’Arròs building.
The building, designed ex professo, was the first newly designed building for housing a museum to be constructed in Barcelona. The municipal architects Bonaventura Bassegoda Nonell, Jesús López, Antoni Lozoya and Joan Puigdengoles designed the building.
The museum was inaugurated in 1973, with an exhibition of nearly one thousand pieces from Afghanistan, New Guinea, Australia, Japan and Peru, collected during museum expeditions and never before exhibited.