Permanent exhibition

The Parc Montjuïc Venue's permanent exhibition is entitled “Feeling the Heritage” and is dedicated to explaining how an object, whatever it may be, is impregnated with the character of the community that conceived and used it. The exhibition speaks about human communities, a collage of objects of various types that allow a detailed or group reading, by means of the relationships and discourses that are established between the various pieces.

The wall is a kind of frieze formed by objects related to beliefs and ideology, festivals and protest, leisure and games, public space, the world of employment and everyday life. The idea of this space is an objectual approach that invites visitors to observe and understand human groups, based on a heritage that is common to them.

On the wall, the object is important, and so are the senses. A resource that becomes tangible in its prolongation, where, in the area that bears the same title as the exhibition, and following the same classification, the objects are within the reach of all visitors.

Dower chest

1571 Would you like to see it?

Mimeograph

First half of the 20th Century Would you like to see it?

Board Game (Auca game board)

19th Century Would you like to see it?

Balance

20th Century Would you like to see it?

Panel Painting (La donselle virtuosa)

Late sixteenth-early seventeenth Century Would you like to see it?

Els Ambits

The areas occupy the exhibition's central space and are presided over by a large object, with the other objects organised around it. These are sets of pieces related with trades and with the people who performed them. They are the everyday objects of people who worked at sea, or worked iron, or worked as shepherds, people who worked the land, spun cloth or cared for others.

Central objects

The apothecary's cupboard

The boat

The fire fan

The grape press

The loom

The shepherd's hut

Apothecary Cabinet

First half of the 18th Century Would you like to see it?

Handloom

1711 Would you like to see it?

Andiron

17th-18th centuries Would you like to see it?

Rope Press

First half of the 19th Century Would you like to see it?

Shepherd’s Cabin

First half of the 20th Century Would you like to see it?

Interspersed with the windows that open out onto the city, the exhibition has six display cases with objects from older times, such as printed calico, cruppers, distaffs, tin miniatures, together with other items still linked with the present day, such as the diatonic accordion. Therefore, the image of present-day Barcelona makes it possible for visitors to connect a memory of the past with the present, through a dialogue with the selected items.

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Diatonic Accordion

First quarter of the 20th Century Would you like to see it?

Stick to Tie Sheaves

First half of the 20th Century Would you like to see it?

Miniature (Toy)

19th-20th centuries Would you like to see it?

Crupper

First half of the 20th Century Would you like to see it?

Woodblock

First quarter of the 20th Century Would you like to see it?

The two interior courtyards, which connect the various floors of the Centre, house large pieces related to ethnology. A puppet of a Majorcan siurell statuette and two copies of City of Barcelona giants —Queen Violant and King Jaume I— represent popular culture, while the two puppets of Joan Amades and Ramon Violant pay tribute to those two pioneers of ethnographic documentation who are so closely linked to the museum.