BENEDICTINE MONKS, WINE, CONTEMPORARY TAPESTRY AND MARILYN MONROE,
A GOOD COMBINATION
If you want to explore the life of the Benedictine monks and the history of the Monastery, if you are interested in wine-making and if you would like a unique suggestion for 20th century contemporary tapestry, you must visit the Sant Cugat Museums. And by the way, don’t forget the only museum in Europe dedicated to Marilyn Monroe.
Monastery Museum
The Monastery Museum, with an elegant and educational exhibition that includes models, touch screens and audiovisuals, shows the main characteristics of everyday life of the Benedictine community and the passage from the splendour of the medieval period to its gradual loss of influence.
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Modernist Wine Cellar
The Modernist building, by the architect Cèsar Martinell, a master of the agrarian architecture that fused Gaudí’s Modernism with rationalist Novecentism, presents an exhibition about the history of the cooperative that commissioned its construction, the wine-making process and the work of the master Martinell.
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Cal Gerrer – House Museum. Marilyn Monroe
In plaça del Monestir you will find a small pre-Modernist jewel that houses the only museum in Europe dedicated to Marilyn Monroe. You can explore her life through her personal objects and recreations of her films and discover the most comprehensive library on the actress. But the museum is much more, with a floor dedicated to the artistic work of the Cabanas Alibau family and another where you will find a collection of ceram Save ic pieces of the Arpí family.
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Grau-Garriga contemporary textile art center. Cal Quitèria
It is the first contemporary textile art center in Spain. In the old Cal Quitèria house, the works of the Sant Cugat artist Josep Grau-Garriga and part of the municipal collections of contemporary tapestries are exhibited, as well as works of contemporary textile art that will change with the various exhibition programs. The center organizes activities related to contemporary textile art that can be developed both in the same equipment and in the Casa Aymat – Espai de Creació (c. Villà 68), where a technique learning workshop is held of tapestries and creative residences.
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Museum of Comics and Illustration of Sant Cugat
The Museum of Comics and Illustration is the first to open its doors in our territory, it is located in a building of the mid-nineteenth century. We offer you a tour of the history of comics and their protagonists, the different stages of the medium and the evolution of their language. All this through hundreds of headlines that appeared in the period 1865/2000. With special emphasis on original work. 135 years of graphic narrative that have made “Tebeo” or Comic a major art.
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