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Human beings have, since time immemorial, exchanged goods and services to meet their needs - even those that might seem superfluous to us. It will be, however, as of the 19th century, with the industrialization and growth of urban life, that shops will proliferate and commerce will begin a golden age which is still present. In this exhibition we will see what the shops of Badalona were like during the late 19th and much of the 20th century, when the…

Within the Fabra Year, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pompeu Fabra and the centenary of the publication of the Catalan Grammar, the Museum presents a small exhibition, reminiscent of its Badalona years. You will be able to see photographs, publications and some pieces related to the Master, which are part of the Museum's collection or that have been lent by individuals. Activities Thursday, September 20th, 7 pm Pompeu Fabra and the Court of Political…

The figure of the artist from Badalona Llorenç Brunet i Forroll (Badalona, 1873-Barcelona, 1939) is, despite its unquestionable value, little known to the general public. A prolific cartoonist trained at La Llotja, a pupil of Eusebi Planas and the lithographer Mercier de Paris, he gained wide recognition thanks to his reports on several war conflicts that plagued Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibit features precisely 47 original drawings Brunet dedicated to World War I, completed just…

Cinema arrived in Badalona in 1898 with street projections and by 1904 the city had already its first stable movie theater. Thus began the intense relationship between the seventh art and the people of Badalona. This close link that runs through the exhibition The Great Illusion. The cinema in Badalona 1898-1975, that invites us to discover the history, the advances, the anecdotes, and the countless episodes of shared memory that are hidden in the darkness of a cinema room. The…

Born in Badalona in 1942 and died in Barcelona in 1998. Enric Sió is a recognized author in the world of comics, illustration and advertising. Punished by censorship, his work had an international dimension. To remember and claim his figure, the Museum dedicates a monographic publication to him while the Sala Josep Uclés (CC El Carme) presents an exhibition with a varied sample of his work. Jordi Riera, curator of this exhibition, is also the author of the profusely illustrated…

Collection of works by Enric Ortuño (1938-2010), painter and set designer greatly influenced by Picasso, from whom he received help as a young beginner. He later moved to Italy, where he pursued much of his artistic career, until returning to Badalona, where in 2003 he presented to the Museum the exhibition Ortuño for the Peace. In collaboration with the Rotary Club of Badalona.

Bacchus is the god of wine, theater and fertility. Equivalent to the Greek Dionysus, it also assumes ancient traditions and agglutinates other deities, such as the Liber Pater. Able to entrust rage, passion and frenzy, represents the most irrational aspects of human beings as opposed to the sense of order and of the measure embodied by Apollo. The exhibition reveals the origins of the god - the last to join the Olympus - his exploits, the composition of his parade, his…

Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nature was the great muse and source of inspiration for architects and artists. With this exhibition we want to show how the flora, in particular, became one of the repertoires par excellence of modernist architecture, which came to establish a true dialogue with the world of plants through the decorative arts. Nature, the source of inspiration, is the first of the four areas in which the exhibition is structured. Here we analyzed…

The poet Charles Baudelaire said that the portrait was a modest genre, but it required a great deal of intelligence from the creator, because it was not enough to reproduce what he saw, but also to show what was hidden, behind the face of the model. A portrait, then, is the fruit of a silent dialogue between artist and model that goes far beyond physical similarity. It is the result of precise work that conveys the moment and captures the…