Museu-Arxiu Doctor Pere Virgili
Municipal museum in Vilallonga del Camp with 18th-century trades and an exhibition on the surgeon Pere Virgili and Spanish surgery of his time.
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About the museum
The Museu-Arxiu Pere Virgili came out of the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Pere Virgili, which took place throughout 1999. Once the events were over, the organising committee proposed to the Vilallonga del Camp Town Council that it create a museum dedicated to the town's illustrious son. In 2000 the council bought a house on Carrer del Doctor Pere Virgili for this purpose, known as Cal Roso.
Pere Virgili (Vilallonga del Camp, 1699 – Barcelona, 1776) was an essential figure in the transformation of surgery in Spain in the 18th century. He founded and directed the first two surgical colleges in the country, in Cadiz and in Barcelona, and Ferdinand VI appointed him court surgeon.
The museum sets out to reflect the 18th century. The ground floor shows the trades and utensils of Virgili's childhood and youth in his native village, among them the water miner (minador de aigua), the espardenyer (rope-soled shoemaker), the shoemaker and the cooper, along with the beginnings of the spirits (aguardiente) and textile industries, with three models. On the first floor, a permanent exhibition follows Virgili's professional career with surgical instruments, documents, books, a re-creation of the sickbay of an 18th-century ship and a model of the Royal College of Surgery of Cadiz. The second floor is devoted to temporary exhibitions and other cultural events. The museum is run by the Associació Centre d'Estudis Pere Virgili.
Highlights
- Permanent exhibition on Pere Virgili and Spanish 18th-century surgery
- Life-size re-creation of the sickbay of an 18th-century ship
- Surgical instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries and wax anatomical models
- Vanished trades and models of Vilallonga in the 18th century on the ground floor
- Model of the Royal College of Surgery of Cadiz
Permanent exhibitions
- Pere Virgili y la cirugía española del siglo XVIII – First-floor exhibition that follows Pere Virgili's professional career with instruments, documents, books and the re-creation of the sickbay of an 18th-century ship.
- Vilallonga y sus oficios en el siglo XVIII – Ground floor with utensils of vanished trades, the beginnings of the spirits and textile industries, and models of the village, of the Granja del Codony and of the hermitage of the Roser.
- Operated by
- Associació Centre d'Estudis Pere Virgili (propiedad del Ajuntament de Vilallonga del Camp)
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| Good to know | Visits by prior appointment. Temporary exhibitions and other cultural events are scheduled on the second floor. |
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