Camp nou Museum 35 VISITORS MILLION EL Barca

A child admitted to the Hospital de Sant Pau is the 35 million visitor to the Museum Max Adriano Rivera makes a visit to the Museum and a Tour of the Camp Nou from his hospital room through the Robot Pol program of the Barça Foundation and that of Éric Abidal

The honor of being the 35 million visitor of the Barça Museum has been for the child Max Adriano Rivera, of Peruvian parents, who from his room at the Hospital de Sant Pau has received the greeting of Jordi Cardoner, first vice president of FC Barcelona and the Fundación Barça, and Éric Abidal, technical secretary of the Club and representative of its Foundation, who has shown him the European Cup he raised at the end of 2011 at Wembley Stadium in London. Also present at this meeting were Jordi Penas, director of the Museum, Mària Vallés, director of the Barça Foundation, and Hayet Abidal, director of the Éric Abidal Foundation.

STATSMEN BY Jordi Cardoner, VICE PRESIDENT of FC Barcelona and the BARCA FOUNDATION

"We are very satisfied with this initiative that we have been able to carry out on the occasion of the celebration of the 35 million visitor in our Museum. Actions like this we have already done on other occasions when we have reached outstanding numbers of visitors, but today it has been a very special visit in which thanks to Robot Pol we have been able to offer a hospitalized child the opportunity to see the trophies and other objects that are exposed in the Museum, as well as to be able to walk virtually through the facilities of the Camp Nou"

"Whenever we reach a designated number of visitors, it allows us to live an important day for the Museum, and the figure reached today shows us, once again, the great interest that this facility arouses for both local fans and visitors to Our city".

FC Barcelona is currently the most visited museum in Catalonia and the first sports museum created by a football club. Located in the Camp Nou, there are exhibited historical objects and important trophies achieved throughout the history of the Club, both the football team and the professional section. Visitors can also explore 120 years of the history of FC Barcelona and relive it, through an impressive interactive wall and several touch screens, the most famous moments of fans.

The museum was inaugurated on September 24, 1984 and Julià Bretos, a neighbor of Mataró, a partner of 47,505, was the first visitor. The evolution of visitors to the museum has been constant. The first year had 19,432 visitors and a year later there were 133,052 people who passed through the facilities. In 1999, millions of visitors were surpassed for the first time and the continuous renovations and the union with the visits to the stadium facilities triggered the number of visitors each season. During 2018, more than 1.8 million people passed through this site.

The large influx of people in recent years means that in November 2016 a total of 30 million visitors were reached and now, three years later, the number of 35 million people who visited the Museum since its inauguration, 35 years ago.

The Robot Pol project Today's

visit has been possible thanks to the technology of Robot Pol. The robot has two cameras, one at the top and one at the bottom, which offer a complete view of the space, and seven internal microphones that allow to isolate The surrounding noise. The robot has been technically developed and distributed by the AWABOT company. This initiative was born two years ago from a proposal by the Abidal Foundation to the Barça Foundation and is now part of its Pediatric Emotional Welfare program, which has a collaboration with the main pediatric hospitals in Catalonia.
The robot is called Pol in homage to the first child who benefited from the pilot test of this innovative experience, which allowed him to make one of his last dreams come true: visit the Camp Nou and the Barça Museum.