– This post was written by Liam McGarry –
Medellín is a city with endless possibilities. As a visitor, you might be drawn by the outdoor adventure, the art culture, or the abundance of family-friendly activities. In all these situations the Medellín City Card is the perfect companion, combining the best hand-picked attractions in the city into one simple ticket and saving you money.
Read on to find out about each individual Medellín City Card and the fun opportunities provided by each one. Don’t forget, buying a Medellín City Card earns you a 10% discount on all other Tiqets attractions in the city!
The Medellín City Card
Suitable for: Everyone
This pass is for those who want to see it all. The original Medellín City Card groups together the most popular experiences in the city, allowing you to sample every cultural corner of this thriving Colombian metropolis. No less than five entry tickets are included.
✅ Museum of Antioquia
✅ Museum of Modern Art Medellín
✅ Parque Explora
✅Parque de la Conservación
✅Parque Arví Tour
The Medellín City Card: Family Fun
Suitable for: Family adventures
The Family Fun Pass is designed specifically for families looking for a great time in Medellín. Balancing unshackled fun and educational activities, this pass keeps the kids stimulated while also tiring them out! Head to a theme park, a water park, and an animal park focused on wildlife conservation with one handy pass.
✅ Parque de la Conservación
✅ Parque Norte Medellín
✅ Aeroparque Juan Pablo II
The Medellín City Card: Science & Nature
Suitable for: Everyone
Looking for something with a large dose of the great outdoors? The Science and Nature Pass is the perfect balance of outdoor adventure and captivating educational activities. As well as heading out to the hills surrounding the city, you’ll visit two of its most interesting attractions dedicated to science and nature.
✅ Parque Explora
✅ Parque de la Conservación
✅Parque Arví Tour
The Medellín City Card: Museums
Suitable for: Culture-hungry adults
The Museums Pass is for those who want to soak up the culture at an easy pace. Colombia has a renowned art culture, and with this two-museum pass, you’ll discover everything from priceless pre-Columbian heirlooms to politically charged work by artists from Medellín’s recent past.
✅ Museum of Modern Art Medellín
✅ Museum of Antioquia
Medellín City Card Attractions
Museum of Antioquia
Included in: Medellín City Card and Museums Card
The Museum of Antioquia is symbolic of Medellín’s transformation from a city in perpetual turmoil to a thriving culture hub. Renovated in 1997, the museum is one of the city’s most important institutions and is home to thousands of Colombia’s most important art treasures.
Perhaps best known for its huge collection of work by Fernando Botero (much of which was donated by the artist himself), you could spend hours just enjoying his instantly-recognizable rotund characters.
Apart from Botero, the 17-room collection includes works by other important artists, as well as artifacts from the Pre-Columbian era, colonial period, and beyond.
Parque de la Conservación
Included in: Medellín City Card, Family Fun Card, Science & Nature Card
Parque de la Conservación is Medellín’s popular wildlife hub, located on the site of the old Santa Fe Zoo. It provides an educational experience for visitors while working on wildlife projects to protect jaguars, bears, primates and more.
Jaguars, pumas, flamingos, birds, zebras, hippos, monkeys, anacondas, ostriches, alligators and many other creatures live in the park. You’ll see roaring lions and pig-sized rodents, reptiles who can change color and teeny-tiny monkeys that can fit in the palm of your hand.
Learn about their fascinating lives, and hear why these species find home at Parque de la Conservación. Discover the park’s conservation projects, and find out what you can do to take care of biodiversity and become an ally of conservation during your visit.
Parque Explora
Included in: Medellín City Card, Family Fun Card, Science & Nature Card
Parque Explora is a home for the inquisitive. Medellín’s popular interactive science and technology museum is at the heart of the city’s innovation district, a hit with families and curious visitors alike.
The building is impossible to miss with its four giant, elevated red blocks – it’s worth a visit just to take a peek at the architecture! Through more than 300 stimulating activities, subjects like biodiversity, neuroscience, relativity, thermodynamics, and physics all come to life.
Parque Explora is also home to the largest freshwater aquarium in South America, and you can also wow at majestic axolotls and vibrant orange frogs in the vivarium. There are interactive rooms devoted to music and the mind, all managed by friendly, science-savvy staff.
Museum of Modern Art Medellín
Included in: Medellín City Card and Museums Card
The Medellín Museum of Modern Art is home to an important collection of art by Colombians and Antioquians, whose work represents the cultural, social, and political themes in Colombia’s recent past.
Inside an unmissable abstract building in the neighborhood of El Poblado, you’ll see work by the best-known Colombian artists, like the politically charged paintings of Débora Arango.
You can create your own soundscapes inside the sound experimentation laboratory, and the museum also boasts a cool and quiet atmosphere, welcoming visitors to its many terraces and outdoor spaces.
Parque Arví Tour
Included in: Medellín City Card, Science & Nature Card
Parque Arví is an oasis in the hills – a popular escape for locals from the busy streets of central Medellín 30 km to the south west. This protected natural area is dedicated to public use and ecotourism, and highlights Colombia’s environmental, cultural, and archaeological heritage.
Medellín’s enormous nature reserve and public park features everything from birds to rare butterflies, alongside some truly striking scenery. Hike your way through this oasis in the hills on a Parque Arví tour and uncover the history and ecology of the 39,500-acre park. Your English and Spanish-speaking guide will lead the way.
Parque Norte Medellín
Included in: Medellín Family Fun Card
Entry to Parque Norte is your passport to fun and adrenaline in Medellín. Located beneath the Aburrá Valley, the park is home to attractions, thrilling rides, and beautiful views, as well as Latin America’s largest urban lake.
You’ll pop your wristband on at the entrance and then set about exploring four unique zones, including a zone designed for younger children to have a good time.
If you’re looking for action, then choose the Extreme Passport and take on rides like Kamikaze, Maui, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Planning on a family visit? Then try out the Fusion Passport, younger kids will be able to enjoy gentler rides that will leave them giddy.
Aeroparque Juan Pablo II
Included in: Medellín Family Fun Card
You’ll have noticed the giant waterpark at Aeroparque Juan Pablo II if you’ve ever arrived in the city by plane – it’s close enough to the city’s airport for the bigger splashes to hit the runway!
Aeroparque Juan Pablo II has a whole laid of watery fun on offer making it perfect for the Medellín Family Fun Card. There’s a huge wave pool with waves as high as three meters.
There’s another pool with slides, a semi-Olympic pool for the serious swimmers, a didactic pool, a children’s pool, and a circular pool. If you just want to relax in the sun, head to the spacious green area and chill.
Looking to sample more experiences in the city? Remember, with the purchase of any Medellín City Card, you’ll earn a 10% discount to use on other Medellín attractions.
Looking for more to add to your Medellín itinerary? Check out the full list of things to do in Medellín including where to stay, where to party, where to eat and more!
