Museu de la Garrotxa

Over het museum

The Museu de la Garrotxa, founded in 1982, is on the third floor of the former Hospici in Olot and occupies nearly a thousand square metres. It manages the heritage of the city and the region and forms part of the Museus d'Olot together with the Museu dels Sants and the Casa Museu Can Trincheria, which are less than three minutes' walk away.

Its route centres on the creation of the Olot Drawing School in 1783 and the city's later history. It begins with textiles and indianas (printed cotton fabrics) and with the origins of the museum and the school, and continues with the Olot School, the landscape movement led by Joaquim and Marian Vayreda and Josep Berga i Boix. Modernisme is represented by Miquel Blay, one of the period's most prominent sculptors, by the poster collection of Cigarrillos París and by “La Càrrega” by Ramon Casas, a key work of Catalan art. Josep Clarà and Francesc Vayreda are at the centre of the section on Noucentisme, and the last section covers the Second Republic, the Escola Superior del Paisatge and the post-war period, with artists such as Melcior Domenge, Enric Galwey, Iu Pasqual and Leonci Quera.

In 2016 the museum received thirteen works on deposit from the collection of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. It closed temporarily in January 2017, and on 1 April of that year it opened a new permanent exhibition, with a museography and contents reworked from the artistic history of the city and its art school.

Hoogtepunten

• The Olot School: landscape painting of Joaquim and Marian Vayreda and Josep Berga i Boix
• “La Càrrega” by Ramon Casas and the poster collection of Cigarrillos París
• Modernista sculpture by Miquel Blay and Noucentista sculpture by Josep Clarà
• Works on deposit from the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
• Family games: light table, Miquel Blay puzzle and activity booklet

Vaste collectie

• Exposición permanente: arte y paisaje de los siglos XIX y XX – Tour of Olot's art history, from the Drawing School and the Olot School to Modernisme, Noucentisme and the post-war period, with “La Càrrega” by Ramon Casas as the main piece.

Opgericht

1982

Beheerder

Ayuntamiento de Olot

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Gratis toegang: The first Sunday of each month.

Free entry also for holders of the Carnet Jove, unemployed people and language-learning couples (parelles lingüístiques). Temporary exhibitions are free to enter. Apropa Cultura manages bookings for people at risk of social exclusion.

Toegankelijkheid

• Rolstoeltoegankelijk
• Lift
• Aangepast toilet
• Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats
• Hulphonden welkom
• Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten
• Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
• Informatie in eenvoudige taal: geen informatie
• Audiodescriptie

The main entrance on the ground floor is at street level, and the museum, on the third floor, occupies a single level reached by stairs or lift. The doors to the museum and to the Oberta 1 and 2 rooms are heavy. Free loan of wheelchairs. Two accessible toilets (ground floor and third floor). Four public parking spaces for people with reduced mobility less than five minutes' walk away. Audio description of the painting “La Càrrega” in Catalan, Spanish, English and French, with a written transcript. Induction loop at the reception counter, ear protectors and stress toys for people with autism spectrum disorder or auditory hypersensitivity. Some activities have Catalan Sign Language interpretation. Only assistance dogs are admitted.

Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
• Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour
• Doe- en voelstations

Free activity booklet at reception, in two versions by age. Play corners: a light table for mixing colours and matching fragments of paintings, a Miquel Blay puzzle and a sculpture-building game. The Museu dels Sants also offers popular street-theatre (farándula) activities.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

All three Olot museums are less than 3 minutes' walk from one another.

Service & horeca

• Kluisjes

Lockers with keys next to the information point, two of them reserved for people with reduced mobility. Five rest areas along the route and a reading point in room 10.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd.

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