Museu dels Sants d'Olot

Om museet

The Museu dels Sants was set up and opened in 2007 in the neo-Gothic building known as “Art Cristià”, which Joaquim Vayreda commissioned from the architect Joaquim Codina i Matalí in 1890. The first workshop of religious imagery in Olot was located in this building, founded in 1880 by Joaquim Vayreda, Josep Berga Boix and Valentí Carrera. Over time more than thirty workshops operated in the town, employing over 1,500 people, and from them came sculptors such as Miquel Blay, Josep Llimona, Joaquim Claret and Celestí Devesa. Festive figures were also made, such as the giants of Olot (1888). The writer Marian Vayreda lived on the first floor of the building and wrote the novel “La punyalada” there.

The museum explains the making of the saints across several rooms: the model room, the moulding and retouching room (in the basement) and the painting and decoration room (on the ground floor). It preserves unfinished models and moulds, painted and decorated saints, nativity figures and festive pieces from the faràndula, such as the Drac del Carme, the Cucut and the Xurruca, as well as works by Ramon Amadeu. Large windows overlook a working workshop, so the whole process can be seen, from making the moulds to hand painting.

The museum is part of the Museus d'Olot, together with the Museu de la Garrotxa and the Casa Museu Can Trincheria, all less than three minutes' walk from one another.

Højdepunkter

• The full process of making saints, from moulds to hand painting
• Working workshop visible through large windows
• Pieces of the faràndula: giants and festive figures of Olot
• Models, moulds and painted saints from the imagery workshops
• Neo-Gothic “Art Cristià” building of 1890, Olot's first imagery workshop

Permanent udstilling

• Exposición permanente: la fabricación de los santos – Tour over three floors explaining the religious imagery of Olot, with models, moulds, painted figures, festive pieces and a working workshop.

Grundlagt

2007

Entrépriser & rabatter

Gratis entré: The first Sunday of each month.

Free admission also for unemployed people and linguistic partners (parelles lingüístiques). Bookings for people at risk of social exclusion are made through Apropa Cultura.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Step-free access with a platform lift to the left of the main entrance (you need to ring the bell, which is more than 140 cm up; you can give notice in advance by telephone or email). Wheelchair on free loan at reception. Three accessible toilets (men's and women's on the ground floor and a unisex one on the first floor). The three floors are linked by stairs and a lift with Braille and raised buttons. Benches along the route, signage with pictograms and a plan at the start. Some original objects can be touched, although there is not yet audio description or Braille. The ground-floor audiovisual is subtitled in Catalan, Spanish, English and French, with sign-language interpreters. Induction loop at reception; ear defenders and stress toys for visitors with autism or sensory sensitivity. Assistance dogs may enter the whole building. A printed content guide in Spanish, French and English is available.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Interaktive stationer

Four fixed interactive activities along the route: the giant of Olot game, a stained-glass game and two “Toca, toca!” activities. Ear defenders and stress toys for children with autism, ADHD or high sensitivity to noise.

Transport & parkering

Service & spisesteder

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Arrangementer & udlejning

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