Girona Museums
The art and universal spirit of Salvador Dalí head up a list of offerings that must inevitably include the Dalí Triangle (the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, the Portlligat Museum-House in Cadaqués and the Gala Dalí Castle in Púbol); Girona's Archaeology, Art, History, Cathedral and Cinema Museums; the Toy Museum of Catalunya, also in Figueres, and the Garrotxa District Museum in Olot, amongst many others.
Cathedral's Treasure-Capitular Museum:
The Capitularys rooms of the Cathedral harbor from principles
of the years 50 the Treasure. The Museum collects mainly artistic
pieces belonging to the bishopric of Girona that during a some
period given of his history have belonged to the decoration of
the Cathedral.
Art Museum:
The building that harbored historically the Episcopal Palace accepts
currently the Art Museum (MDA) lead for: Generalitat of Catalonia,
Delegation of Girona and Bishopric of Girona. The current building
is a set of rooms and floors added century to century, something
which converts to him into a building of irregular plants of surprising
corners. A total of six plants house this Museum with dated principal
pieces, with exceptions, from romanesque style. Some of the considerate
most important are: - Portable altar of Sant Pere de Rodes (s.X)
- Mural painting of Pedrinyà (s.XII) - Girder of Cruïlles
(s.XII) - Capital of the Canonja (s.XIII) - Glazier tables (s.XIV)
- Virgin of Palera (s.XV) - Altarpiece of Segueró (s.XVI)
- Sculpture of Sant Roc (s.XVII) - ... Jointly with an important
collection of large Catalan authors painting of the s.XIX and
XX as Mr. Martí Alsina or Mr. Joaquim Vayreda..
Cinema Museum:
Inaugurated at the beginning of 1998, the Museum of the Cinema
shows the evolution accomplished by the human being throughout
the history for power to represent images of the real world. The
three floors of the museum continue a chronological order based
on appliances of the collection of the Mr. Tomás Mallol.
City History Museum:
The Museum begins the historical tour with the prehistoric remains
of the Puig d'en Roca. All the different periods are more or less
represented. The paragraph of the technological change of the
period XIX - XX is very interesting and well detailed. Artistic
pieces of great value complement the tour as a Roman pavement
of the s.Ivd.C or modern figures of Mr. Fidel Aguilar. The building
that harbors the History Museum of the City has suffered many
transformations, but yet today they can deal the church, the cloister
and the cemetery of the Capuchins monks ancient inhabitants of
the building..
Archeological
Museum:
In the year 1857 the monastery of St Peter of Galligants is converted
into the headquarters of the Provincial Antiquities Museum and
fine arts. The first archaeologic materials that formed part of
the museum were originating, largely, of Empúries. Afterwards,
gravestones and Roman sculptures and joint of medieval grafics
of Girona city Girona. With the years, thanks to the opening of
other museums, this has been able be specialized in prehistory
and archaeology with materials originating from all the province.
Currently the museum consists of two plants. In the first floor:
room devoted to the neolithic, room of the neolithic and of the
bronze age, room of the iron age and beginning of the settlings,
room of the Iberian culture and two rooms devoted to romans. Downstairs:
other room devoted to romans, two rooms with Greek and Roman objects
provided by Empúries mainly., from among those which emphasizes
"the sepulcher of the stations" of the Roman era. Furthermore
the cloister of the monastery, accomplishing a historical bracket,
it is the framework for the permanent exposition of a gravestones
collection of the medieval era. The most interesting and original
are in Hebrew, originating the majority from the Jewish cemetery
of Girona designates the "Bou d'Or" ( Gold Ox). From
1992 form part of the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia.
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