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These two spaces, located on Pujol Street, will allow to discover how the water supply worked in the Roman and modern city, and get to know the oldest pottery of Baetulo (1st century BC), the only one located inside the city.

With this intervention, the visit to the Roman water conduit, which until now was limited by architectural barriers, can be done accordint to all the accessibility criteria

The Museum of Badalona, the City Council and the Archeology Service of the Generalitat de Catalunya are monitoring the excavation and construction of a new building run by the company Esepe & Co at number 20 on Pujol street, on the site traditionally known as l’Hort d’en Fluvià.

Aware of the great archaeological interest of the land and its valuable contribution to the knowledge of the Roman Baetulo, the Museum has been working with the property and the construction company to ensure the heritage elements that are preserved in this space. Thus, it has promoted the signing of an agreement between the City Council and the property, for the session of two spaces located inside the new building. The first space will have a local ground floor of 275 m² where you can visit the pottery excavated in 2006, the oldest known in Baetulo and the only one located in the urban area of ​​the city. The second space, of 350 m², will allow, through a single access, the visit to the aqueduct of the 18th century and the water conduit of the 1st century AD. In this way, the city will gain two new archeological spaces that will be open to the public in the future.

 

 

Works to open the subway that will allow the visit to the water conduit on Pujol street. Photo: MB

 

View of the modern aqueduct where five of the arches that make up this section can be seen. Photo: MB

Aerial view of the 2006 excavation showing the street culvert in the center. Photo: F. Antequera. Codex SL

 

Square-shaped kiln of artisanal pottery discovered in 2006 in the Hort d’en Fluvià. Photo: F. Antequera. Codex SL

 

The exhibition Games and toys in Antiquity, conceived by the Museu de Badalona and produced by the Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, through the Arqueoxarxa, can be seen in the temporary exhibition hall of the sanctuary of the Miracle, in Riner (Solsonès), from 18th July.

In this way, this traveling exhibition, inaugurated on November 29th, 2015 and which has already been visited by thousands of people throughout Catalonia, will open a new exhibition space that will complement the visit to the sanctuary itself, where there’s one of the most important altarpiece from the baroque period of Catalonia.

The original content of the exhibition, which brings together 130 archaeological pieces from different museums of the Arqueoxarxa, has been completed with a new exhibition produced by the Association of Lacetans Studies and a group of volunteers from the village that extends the original discourse to well into the twentieth century.

The two proposals, therefore, complement each other and show the continuity of many of the ancient games and toys and their evolution, showing that the need to play is intrinsic to the evolution of human beings.

The first exhibition was curated by Esther Gurri, archaeologist and curator of the Museum of Badalona, ​​and Joan Mayné, former director of this museum, while the contemporary exhibition was curated by Màrius Codina, a very close person at the Association of Lacetans Studies and game collector. The toys included in this second exhibition proposal have been donated by the curator himself and by several residents of Solsona and Riner, and in most cases are personal memories of his childhood.

The opening ceremony will take place this Sunday, July 18th, at 11 am and will be attended by Margarida Abras, Director of the Museum of Badalona, ​​and Esther Gurri, co-curator of the first exhibition, who will act as representatives of the Archeoxarxa.

 

Opening: 18th July, 11 am

Place: Casa Gran del santuari del Miracle (Riner)

Guided tours and further information:

683 659 050 / larutadelbarroc@gmail.com / www.riner.ddl.net

 

We are sorry to inform you that, in view of the data of the epidemiological evolution in our city, the Summer Nights of the 16th and 23rd of July are canceled.

From the Museum we will contact the people who had purchased tickets for this activity to process the relevant return.

Thanks for your understanding.

For more information, you can call 933 841 750.

 

The relationship between the Roman city of Baetulo and wine is so intense that one cannot be explained without the other. It is for this reason that the Museum of Badalona will organize, in October 2022, with the collaboration of the universities (UAB and UB) and the research centers of classical archeology (ICAC and MAC Empúries), an international congress on the economy, production and trade of wine in the Mediterranean.

It will be the third symposium on wine in antiquity held by the Museum following a tradition that began in 1985, and which reaffirms the Museum as a reference center for research and dissemination of the ancient world.

With the publication of the congress website, we are opening what we hope will be a meeting that will facilitate scientific debate between several research groups in the field of wine in antiquity.

View the web page of the congress

 

Next Wednesday, July 7th, at 7 pm, the book Pedro Rovira, 1921-1978, edited by the Museum and written by Josep Casamartina i Parassols, will be presented at the Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona.

The monograph, profusely illustrated, has been published on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of this internationally renowned Badalona seamstress and completes the anthological exhibition of the same name, which can be visited at the Museum until 17 October. The publication can be purchased during the event, but also directly at the Badalona Museum or through our website.

The presentation will be given by Rosa M. Martín i Ros, historian of Textiles and Clothing, and the author of the book, Josep Casamartina i Parassols, who is also co-curator of the exhibition together with Ismael Núñez Muñoz. Also taking part will be Rosa Bertran, vice-president of the Badalona Museum, and Margarida Abras, director of this institution.

The event is open to everyone and does not require prior registration.

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Passeig d’Isabel II, 1
08003 BARCELONA