Location: Province of Girona
Top Things to do in Province of Girona
Top Restaurants in Province of Girona
What to do and see in Province of Girona, Catalonia: The Best Specialty Museums
Girona (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒiˈɾonə], Spanish: Gerona [xeˈɾona]) is a province of Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered on the northwest by the province of Lleida, on the southwest by the province of Barcelona, on the north by France, and on the east by the Mediterranean Sea.
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1. Magic House, Col.leccio XEVI
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5.0 based on 65 reviews
2. Cinema Museum Girona (Museu del Cinema)
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4.5 based on 420 reviews
Experience and view the history of moving images, from shadow theatre to the cinema, with the Tomàs Mallol Collection. An interactive, educational and entertaining exhibition, interesting for all ages.
Reviewed By Michaelmackle
You start on the third floor and work your way down to the ground floor with each floor revealing new secrets about the art of cinematography. It is a seamless experience and one that you will never forget. The next tie I'm in Girona this will be the first place I will visit again.
3. Casa Museu Can Font
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4.5 based on 43 reviews
4. Casa Maso
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4.5 based on 122 reviews
The Foundation is a non-profit-making body set up in 2006, is responsible for the conservation and the visitor management of Masó House, the Foundation also promotes research, conservation, and dissemination of Masó’s works and of Catalan Noucentisme in general. It also organizes exhibitions, publications, and educational activities for all ages in order to build awareness of the importance of architecture and urban planning for people and society at large.
Reviewed By flj3 - Potters Bar, United Kingdom
Most people will be familiar with Modernisme in Catalan art, or as a wider artistic movement in the late 19th century in Europe, but who has ever heard of Noucentisme? This was a fascinating discovery when preparing for a visit to Girona to look at Modernista architecture, and which led us to visit the Casa Masó, the home of the Catalan architect Rafael Masó i Valentí. The guided visit is essentially about the house and the family, not to show you or explain Masó's work, although the introductory video will give you some idea. The house is in reality very small, despite being a merger over time of four separate dwellings, so there does not appear to be any space for displays of designs or photographs of architecture. For that you can follow the 'Masó Route' on foot in Girona, probably best with a guide, or visit places such as Sant Feliu de Guixols or S'Agaro on the coast. In whatever case, if you do have any real interest in the history of architecture and design in the early 20th century, do take the time to research Noucentisme - essentially a return to classical values after what was possibly seen as the excesses of modernity, as the movement does explain some aspects of present day Catalan identity still visible today.
5. Museu Memorial de l'Exili
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4.5 based on 51 reviews
6. Museu Etnografic de Ripoll
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4.5 based on 48 reviews
The Ethnographic Museum of Ripoll has its origins in the Folkloric Archive and Museum of Ripoll. It was the first ethnographic museum in Catalonia and along 70 years it uninterruptedly collected, studied, conserved and taught about the heritage of our region. In March 2011, after 10 years of readaptation and maintenance, the museum opened its gates to carry on preserving and expanding its collection and to show a heritage, that includes the collections about shepherds, farmers, jobs, religiosity and the production of forged iron and hand fire weapons in the Ripollès region. The Museum offers an interesting journey, enjoyable for both children and adults that allows the discovery of a recent past, a different way of living and feeling and the symbols of identity of a territory.
7. Museu de la Pesca
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4.5 based on 140 reviews
8. Museu d'Historia de la Joguina
9. Museu de la Tecnica de l'Emporda
10. Museu Can Mario
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4.5 based on 41 reviews
Can Mario is the Fundació Vila Casas Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Palafrugell (Costa Brava). It was opened in 2004. It has around 220 works on show dating from the 1960’s to the present day by a wide range of artists born or living in Catalonia. Temporary exhibitions are also held every year. Can Mario was a cork factory dating from the early 20th century and was one of the buildings of the Miquel & Vincke cork company. Today it is a place for contemplating art situated in the Plaça de Can Mario, where we can also find a modernista water tower and the Cork Museum. Sice April 2011, 33 sculptures by artists from the Empordà region of Catalonia have been placed in the Jardí de Can Mario, as permanent, open air exhibits. In October of the same year the Sala Empordà was opened in the Museum, for holding temporary exhibitions of artists from the region.
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