Museu de Ceràmica Popular

Monographic museum of Iberian folk pottery in L’Ametlla de Mar, with around 4,500 pieces on display from more than 300 pottery centres.

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About the museum

The Museu de Ceràmica Popular de L’Ametlla de Mar dates back to 1992, when the Fundación Privada Martí-Castro was established, although it did not open its doors until 5 May 2001. Since 2000 L’Ametlla de Mar town council has been part of its board of trustees.

It is a monographic centre dedicated to the traditional pottery made and used over the last two hundred years in the Iberian Peninsula. Its permanent holdings comprise around 6,500 clay objects from more than 300 pottery centres in 41 provinces of Spain, and its permanent exhibition has some 4,500 pieces, organised into four circuits spread over several floors.

The circuits cover the uses of pottery (water, wine, oil, food), the pottery centres, the botijo (traditional clay water jug) and its 32 families or types, and the processes and techniques of manufacture, with 48 metres of images accompanied by materials. Among the pieces, a quartillo from Miravet stands out: a vessel for measuring liquids in the old system of weights and measures.

Highlights

Around 4,500 pieces on display from a holding of 6,500 clay objects
Pieces from more than 300 pottery centres in Spain, with some from Portugal and Morocco
Circuit on the botijo and its 32 families
Circuit on manufacturing processes and techniques, with 48 metres of images
Quartillo from Miravet for measuring liquids

Permanent exhibition

Cerámica popular ibérica: exposición permanente – Four circuits on the uses of pottery, the pottery centres, the botijo and its families, and the processes and techniques of manufacture.

Founded: 2001
Operated by: Fundació Privada Martí-Castro