News
20/01/12
New honour for Grup Praxis 75 exhibition
The Catalan Art Critics' Association has short-listed Grup Praxis 75 (1975-1990): A Communications Guerrilla curated by Narcís Selles, for the prize as the best Catalan historical research exhibition.
18/01/12
Grup Praxis 75 receives bonart prize
Grup Praxis 75 members Lluís Bosch Martí and Bep Marquès are among the prize-winners at the third edition of the bonart magazine awards.
12/01/12
Girona City History Museum received 1225 Open Day visitors on 14 and 15 January
As part of Girona10 campaign, the museum waived all admission fees over the weekend and opened Jardí de la Infància air-raid shelter to the public. 389 persons visited the museum, 241 persons visited the temporary exhibition, and 595 persons visited the air-raid shelter. 389 persons visited the museum, 241 persons visited the temporary exhibition, and 595 persons visited the air-raid shelter.
21/12/11
Forthcoming première of Aeròdrom 311 documentary
A showing of Aeròdrom 311, a documentary on the former Celrà aerodrome (or “airfield”), will take place at the Ateneu in Celrà on 30 December at 8.30pm. The 40-minute film was made by Quim Paredes, a regular collaborator of Girona City History Museum.
09/12/11
On 18 May 2012, the City History Museum will present the history of the original Angel of Girona Cathedral, restored by the CRBMC in 1997 and currently displayed in our Modern Girona room.
21/11/11
Successful 4th Nature and Culture walk reveals unknown heritage in Les Pedreres district
The walk organised by Les Pedreres - Fora Muralla Residents' Association with the support of Girona City Council on Sunday 20 November revealed hidden corners of great beauty in Les Pedreres district, unfamiliar despite their proximity to the city.
09/11/11
4th Girona History Conference dedicated to the Baroque era
Conference to be held on 24, 25 and 26 November.
19/10/11
Three art exhibitions to be inaugurated in close succession at the MHCG this autumn
Space of Silence in the Contemporary Space, Grup Praxis 75 (1975-1990). A Communications Guerrilla in the exhibition room, and The Sorrow of Souls, in the Coal Cellar and Cistern rooms.
07/09/11
Tapestry by Francine Lambert recently donated by Odile Armand to Municipal Art Collection.
11/07/11
Summer at the Girona City History Museum
The Girona City History Museum invites you to participate in a varied programme of events that includes dramatised visits to discover the building's past, a visit to the Jardí de la Infància air-raid shelter (which has extended opening hours in summer), and four temporary exhibitions in which the city and its inhabitants take centre stage.
08/06/11
The National Museum of Art of Catalonia has yielded in deposit to the Ayuntament of Girona this preparatory painting for the picture Girona's Great Day that incorporates to the permanent room devoted to the Peninsular War.
19/05/11
New painting by Jesús Portas at History Museum
Girona City History Museum has recently added a painting by Jesús Portas (Girona, 1917-1991) to its permanent collection. Girona from Sant Daniel, from the artist's first period, will be on display in the Celler Room this summer, from this week until 11 September.
19/05/11
New display case on Antoni Varés
From this week onwards, Girona City History Museum Room 13 boasts a new display case dedicated to Antoni Varés and his major contributions to photography and the world of image.
19/05/11
Over 80,000 visitors during Flower Show
Over 80,000 persons visited Girona City History Museum during Girona Flower Time (7-15 May). The busiest day was Sunday 8 May, with 17,065 visitors.
17/02/11
Large public attendance at event
On Sunday 6 February, the temporary exhibition Carles Vivó: A Life of Many Paths closed with a family event at which the legends and giants of Girona took centre stage.
31/01/11
An excerpt from an editorial by Joan Ribas published on 23 January of this year in the section La Contra of the newspaper El Punt.
27/01/11
What do you know about Faixó and Llucià?
Espai Volart is presenting this exhibition on Joaquim Llucià and Jaume Faixó, under the curatorship of Glòria Bosch and Susanna Portell, until 25 June of this year.
13/01/11
One presents the bottom of contemporary municipal art
In the firm belief that such a collection only makes sense when known and appreciated by the local community, the City Council is setting up a project by which we hope to further public acquaintance with the works and the artists herein represented.
27/12/10
Travelling exhibition on the Peninsular War
City History Museum to organise travelling exhibition on historical event for Girona community centres.
18/11/10
Carles Vivó's giant and giantess celebrate their 25th anniversary
Charlemagne and Anna Gironella preside over the entrance to the City History Museum exhibition in honour of their creator Carles Vivó.
09/11/10
Girona dignifies mass grave and places information panel at former provincial prison
With the support of the Democratic Memorial, Girona city has dignified the mass grave in the old municipal cemetery and placed an information panel at the former provincial prison in the Diocesan Seminary
03/11/10
Girona City History Museum part of the History Museum Network of Catalonia
The agreement to set up the History Museum and Monument Network of Catalonia was signed on 21 October last.
11/10/10
The sardana now listed in Catalogue of the Festive Heritage of Catalonia
The Catalan Government has declared the sardana to be a heritage festive element of national interest.
23/09/10
A new air-raid shelter has been discovered in the garden of the Girona Municipal School of Music
This latest find is a magnificent and unique example of a purpose-built tunnel-style air-raid shelter in this city, and is very different to the popular cellular-style air-raid shelter located in the Jardí de la Infància.
21/09/10
First Santiago Sobrequés i Vidal History Prize
The prize will be given for research on the history of Catalonia.
17/09/10
A Civil War air-raid shelter discovered in a private house of Girona
Ca la Cecília air-raid shelter was carved out of the mountainside in the shape of a mine gallery. Built in solid brick and measuring 5.33 m in length and 2.20 m at its highest point, the cavity could hold 16 persons. The shelter had an electric light system, and an emergency exit through a vertical flue which also provided ventilation.
03/09/10
The City History Museum displays an Orihuel painting in its permanent collection
the City History Museum has received the posthumous donation by Ms. Enriqueta Camps Martorell.
13/07/10
This book is the result of an investigation carried out by Jaume Prat to shed light on the execution by firing squad of his grandfather, Jordano Pons Tomàs
12/07/10
Experience history in a different way this summer
The City History Museum proposes diverse activities to experience Girona's history this summer
25/05/10
Jardí d'Infància air-raid shelter converted into a new room of the City History Museum
The Jardí d'Infància air-raid shelter was officially inaugurated as a new museum space by Anna Pagans, Mayor of Girona, and Joan Boada, Secretary General of the Catalan Ministry of Home Affairs, Institutional Relations and Participation, on May 20 at 11.30am.
14/05/10
Girona City Council has re-opened the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) air-raid shelter located under the children's playground on Plaça del Poeta Marquina, twenty years after it was briefly opened up for the first time in July 1990.
03/05/10
Civil War passive defence network in Girona arouses much interest
On Sunday 2 May, over thirty persons took part in a guided walk around the passive defence elements (barricades, trenches and shelters) built in Girona during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), as one of the «Walk through History» itineraries organised by the City History Museum.
23/04/10
Girona City History Museum presents Stroll around the Districts
The new programme started off on Sunday 25 April with a very well-attended walk around Santa Eugènia district.
18/03/10
Sopra e sotto la città europea (Above and Underneath the European city) EU project concluded
On 12 and 13 March, Brindisi (Italy) hosted the closing ceremony of the European cultural project promoted by the cities of Girona, Toulouse and Brindisi.
10/02/10
The Museum takes part in Vicens Vives Year
Vicens Vives Year was officially launched on 10th February at the Palau de la Generalitat, seat of the Government of Catalonia. The event celebrates the centenary of the birth of this historian who declared that history liberates and that the new approach to history is and will be the liberation of our spirit.
23/12/09
Virtual visit to the exhibition Girona and France. Times of War and Peace, 1659-1939
The City History Museum is setting up a new online space dedicated to virtual exhibitions in order to provide Internet users with access to the history of Girona through the Museum website. The first virtual visit is an adaptation of the exhibition Girona and France. Times of War and Peace, 1659-1939, available in Catalan, Spanish, English and French.
14/12/09
Technology enables us to follow the seven-month siege of 1809
Extract from an article on Jordi Pericot, who works in collaboration with this Museum, published in Diari de Girona on 10 December 2009.
04/12/09
The excavations of the Church of Sant Feliu will begin in January
The excavations of the Church of Sant Feliu are one of the actions planned within the frame of the European project which lends continuity to the Culture 2000 programme, a project seeking to identify the potentialities of the hidden heritage of three medium-sized cities Brindisi, Toulouse and Girona, and to spread their acquaintance by means of a joint promotion plan.
02/12/09
The Catalonia History Museums Network
The Catalonia History Museums Network is formed by the Cervera County Museum, the Lleida Museum, the Terrassa Museum, the Torre Balldovina Museum of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, and the Museum of the History of Catalonia.
03/11/09
The 3rd Girona History Conference will be dedicated to the bicentenary of the Napoleonic Wars
On 19, 20 and 21 November, the city of Girona will go back in time to analyse the subject "War and Power in Frontier Lands (1729-1823)".
23/10/09
Retrospective exhibition of the architect Josep Claret Rubira at the History Museum
The exhibition Josep Claret (1908-1988), An Architect between the Republic and the Dictatorship, which may be visited until 14 February 2010.
02/10/09
New action on Sopra e sotto la città europea (Above and Underneath the European city) EU project
One action of this project was to organise an amateur video competition designed to promote the historical and heritage values of the city.
06/08/09
New open days at the museum on 26 and 27 September
To celebrate European Heritage Days in Catalonia, the museum will hold open days on the last weekend in September.
10/07/09
Presentation in Girona of the European project
The project, which continues the Culture 2000 programme, springs from a desire to identify the potential of the hidden heritage in three medium-sized cities ¿Brindisi, Toulouse and Girona¿ and to publicise this through a jointly undertaken promotion plan.
10/07/09
Girona is joining in the celebration of TV3's Night 10 with a varied programme of events.
19/06/09
On the night of 8 July, just before the ninth stage of the Tour de France sets off, we are offering a cultural Tour de Girona.
04/06/09
An influx of visitors to the Museum during May
During the exhibition Girona, flower time, the Museum welcomed 96,513 visitors an increase of 6.84% on the previous edition of this show.
06/05/09
Free entrance to city museums on the first Sunday of each month
Girona City Council has set up an attractive free entrance plan for the five museums in the Gironamuseus group, with the aim of facilitating access to our rich cultural heritage during the current period of recession.
05/05/09
Girona Flower Time in the City History Museum
The 54th Girona Flower Time exhibition will be held from 9 to 17 May in courtyards, gardens and other sites around the city.
30/04/09
The City History Museum will remain open until midnight on Museum Night. The curator of Girona and France. Times of War and Peace, 1659-1939 will give a guided visit around the exhibition at 8pm.
15/04/09
Wide range of activities related to Girona during the Peninsular War
Girona and France: Times of War and Peace, 1569-1939 is a temporary exhibition that opens up a new perspective on the Peninsular War within the greater context of the 1792-1823 war cycle. The exhibition is backed up by a programme of guided and dramatised visits, itineraries around the city, and the more light-hearted Peninsular War Game and Lion Cut-Out.
15/04/09
The City History Museum rewards visitor loyalty
We wish to thank all participants in the museum activities.
08/04/09
A novel set during the sieges of Girona
Mort a Girona (Death in Girona) by Miquel Fanyanàs launched at the City History Museum.
30/03/09
The fortifications on Montjuïc Hill
Last Sunday 29 March, Girona City History Museum organised its first tour of the little-known fortifications on Montjuïc Hill: St Joan¿s Tower, St Lluís¿ Tower, St Daniel¿s Tower, St Narcís¿ Tower, Suchet Tower and Montjuïc Castle. The tour is one of the Museum¿s ¿Walk through History¿ itineraries.
10/02/09
Seventy years back, but it seemed almost like yesterday
A tour that opened our eyes to the forces that explain Girona as it is today.Extract from an article by Joaquim Bohigas published in the newspaper Diari de Girona on 9 February.
10/02/09
The Museum's collection grows through new donations and acquisitions
The municipal collection took charge of works by of three local artists who are no longer with us: Josep Perpiñà, Montserrat Llonch and Josep Aguilera.
16/01/09
Seminars: Identity and Exile (1939-2009)
The seminars Identity and Exile (1939-2009) will be held from 5 to 7 February in Girona, Barcelona and La Jonquera. They have backing from the Directorate-General for the Democratic Memory, and have been organised by the University of Barcelona, the University of Girona, the Exile Memorial Museum and the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation.
16/01/09
This volume's presentation ceremony was held last Friday, January 16th, with its authors Jordi Busquets, Jaume Prat and Jordi Pericot. The work traces the historical, social and planning development of this Girona district.
01/12/08
Experience history in a different way in 2009
The schedule of activities run by the City History Museum is arranged in five theme-based blocks,
01/12/08
New tours into the history of Girona
The City History Museum website is presenting a new section offering virtual tours around the city.
23/10/08
Third Girona History Conference
Third Girona History Conference to present in-depth study of Peninsular War (1808-1814).
25/09/08
AEMCAT in the City History Museum
The Music Teachers’ Association of Catalonia (AEMCAT) held in Girona City History Museum.
25/09/08
City History Museum participates in Girona edition of “Nit en Blanc” programme on TV3
17/07/08
Girona City Council is publishing the first in-depth guide to the city's wall and other fortifications, covering the period from the first century BC down to the eighteenth century.
14/07/08
One hundred years of the Museums Board
Various events and programmes will be held this year on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the creation of this institution.
14/07/08
International Congress — “The Battle of the River Ebro 70 years later”, in Móra d’Ebre
This congress will be held from July 24th to 27th, together with various commemorative events, at the “La Llanterna” Municipal Theatre (at C/ Miquel Rojals, 1) in Móra d’Ebre.
29/05/08
The museum will once again be opening into the early hours of the morning.
The City History Museum will be taking part in TV3’s Nit en blanc (‘sleepless night’) project .
26/05/08
Secondary School Institute of Girona
On Wednesday May 28th past, this book by Joan Olòriz was presented in the exhibitions room of the City History Museum.
21/05/08
89,912 people came to Girona's City History Museum for the Girona Flower Time exhibition.
As in other years, the City History Museum was the setting for various floral installations and arrangements for this 53rd exhibition for flowers, monuments, patios and gardens, which welcomed a total of 89,912 visitors over the period 10-18 May. Of those, 59,077 went to the Coal Cellar room, 15,770 to the exhibition room, and 15,065 to the museum's permanent collection.
09/04/08
The Long Night of the Museums is back
The Long Night of the Museums will be coming back for the fourth time at the city's museums on 17 May, with an open day lasting until midnight, plus the museums' programmes of parallel activities.
09/04/08
The TV serial Ventdelplà at the History Museum
One of the new episodes for the TV serial Ventdelplà was filmed at the City History Museum on 9 April.
09/04/08
We are launching a new range of tours around the city under the name "Walk around History".
27/03/08
Painting and photography engage in a dialogue on particular spots in the city, mostly characteristic and distinctive ones.
17/03/08
· The Museum has started renovation work on its permanent exhibition rooms, marked by the reopening of the new room devoted to the sardana dance, which now has the tenora (Catalan tenor shawm) played by Ricard Viladesau on display.
17/03/08
The new website on Girona’s museums, Gironamuseus, is now up and running, www.gironamuseus.cat.
25/09/07
The summer programme has attracted a total of 5,000 people so far
The summer programme at the City History Museum will be coming to a close in the last week in September, in the framework of the European Heritage Days in Catalonia. The programme has attracted a total of 5,000 people so far, of whom nearly a thousand came for the scheduled activities, while the remainder comprised people visiting the temporary exhibition.
25/09/07
The Autumn programme at the City History Museum opens
The Autumn programme at the City History Museum opens at the same time as Girona’s yearly municipal Festivities, at the end of October, and it will be packed with free options such as dramatised tours, some for children and some for all the family, and stories. This season will also bring an exhibition devoted to the figure of Emília Xargay.
06/08/07
New educational materials from the Girona City History Museum
A guide to the contents, and six suggested topics.
06/07/07
Another donation to the Museum’s collection
Ms Anna Donato, acting on behalf of the Proscenium Group, has donated a banner to Girona City Council for the City History Museum.
05/07/07
New projects for the City History Museum
Girona City Council is considering building a lift to make access to the City History Museum easier from Ballesteries street or from Pujada Sant Feliu. According to the Museum’s Director, Pere Freixas, this would solve the problems faced by first-time visitors to the city in finding the entrance on Força street.
24/05/07
The 52nd “Girona Flower Time” exhibition of flowers, monuments, patios and gardens took place this year from 12th-20th May. Flowers were again the main attraction in the museum for the duration of the annual springtime exhibition.
11/04/07
Recent bequests to the City History Museum permanent collection
Girona City History Museum permanent collection has received a bequest from Concepció Costa Torró consisting of a publicity element and an ink drawing, both by Carles Vivó. Montserrat Pararols Sidera has also bequeathed a set of documents on the sardana dance.
04/04/07
The 9th International Seminar on Dissemination of Roman History will be held in the city of Tarragona from May 10 to 20.
26/03/07
We invite you to see The Hermitage Dwellers
Gironamuseus invites you to celebrate International Museum Day with the projection of a documentary in the Cinema Truffaut on Friday 18th May at 8.30 pm.
13/03/07
The event will be scheduled for Sunday 29 April
The tour – an unusual itinerary around the city wall, led by Jaume Prat – has had to be cancelled since he is ill. A new date will be announced shortly.
13/02/07
Lower Palaeolithic tools found in the Turó de la Bateria area
The archaeologists commissioned by Girona City Council to supervise the development work at Turó de la Bateria have uncovered a lower Palaeolithic site.
18/01/07
111,329 persons visited the City History Museum in 2006
The City History Museum received a total of 111,329 persons last year, including visitors to the permanent exhibition rooms and/or the 11 temporary exhibitions, as well as participants in the 41 activities held in the museum throughout 2006.
15/01/07
The new City History Museum website was visited by 74,420 persons in 2006
In the last two months of the year, the average number of visitors increased by over 50%.
12/12/06
The exhibition, staged by the curator Ramon Alberch and produced by Girona City Council, was put on in the Coal Cellar and Cistern rooms from 20 October to 10 December, and 8,865 visitors came to see it.
17/10/06
The use of the ticket M5, a promotional tool for the museums Iin the city of Girona
Once this initiative had begun, we needed to find out how the Tiquet M5 was working and how often it was being used by Girona museum visitors and visitors to the city. The study was carried out by the Institute of Cultural Heritage at the University of Girona.
29/08/06
New publication outlining school activities for the 2006- 2007 school year
This booklet will tell you all about a wide range of activities aimed at children in nursery and primary education, and young people in secondary education and further education, without forgetting the adults of course.
14/08/06
Excerpt from a feature article contributed by the Catalan Government Minister and Spokesman Joaquim Nadal and published in the newspaper Diari de Girona on 11 August .
09/08/06
The museum’s collection grows to 9,600 inventory items through the latest donations
Mrs Maria Assumpció Nadal Padró and Mr Joaquim Alcalde Ballell have given respectively electrical items and photographs of the city’s bullring to the City History Museum’s collection.
28/07/06
The History Museum has a sundial dating from the eighteenth century
A specimen of a sundial dating from the eighteenth century is kept in the city of Girona, on a wall in the old Capuchin monastery of Sant Antoni.
21/07/06
The sculpture La Justícia (Justice) by Emília Xargay
Girona City Hall has the sculpture La Justícia (Justice) by Emília Xargay temporarily out on loan to the Community of Madrid region.
20/07/06
Two rooms will be updating their museographic communication in the near future
The sardana music-dancing theme-gallery and Gallery 12 devoted to the onset of the Republic will be updating their museographic communication in the near future.
19/07/06
Another perspective on the Perpinyà Plan.
The The Perpignan Plan under Construction as viewed from the Market by Jesús Portas (1917- 1991) can be seen in the Museum gallery devoted to Francoism.
10/07/06
This card allows you to visit the five Girona Museums at a very special price. You will only have to pay the total of the entrance at the first museum you will visit, then only 50% of the entrance at the rest of the museums. Valid for 6 months.
17/02/06
Optical Telegraphy in Catalonia – travelling successfully.
This exhibition, which was curated by Jaume Prat and produced by Girona City Council, was shown in the Museum’s Coal Cellar and Cistern Rooms in 2004, and spent 2005 travelling successfully – and it is still on its travels now.