The Easter holidays are a great opportunity to discover the Roman city of Baetulo and the exhibition Badalona on wheels!
We remind you that the Museum is open from Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., except Friday, April 2nd, and on Easter Monday.
As for the Historical Archive, will be closed on Easter.
For further information, you can call: 933 841 750.
At the Museum we have heard that a scientific study by the CSIC confirms that Badalona is the city in the world where the best young photographers live. The surprising news comes to light a few days after learning of the results of a bioclimatic investigation that indicates that, during the week of March 29th to April 5th, Badalona will enjoy a particularly magical light to take photos.
To get to know the creative talent of these artists, the Badalona Museum has organized a photography competition that will allow the family to enjoy the discovery of the city through a handful of very unique old photos that are part of the exhibition Badalona on wheels, an exhibition on the history of transport, from the end of the 19th century to 1985, the year in which the metro arrived in the city.
The essential requirements to participate in the contest are: write down the appointment in your Easter agenda, have your camera or mobile devices ready and, of course, a selfie stick and be willing to go rolling around Badalona to shoot 4 great photos.
On Friday, March 26th, everything will be ready to start the great challenge that begins at the Museum of Badalona, visiting the exhibition Badalona on wheels. Once the tests are over, families will have to upload their photos to their Instagram profile with the tags: #bdnsobrerodes #rodantperBadalona and @MuseuBdn. They will not be able to forget the essential requirements that collect the bases of the contest.
The contest will have a jury that will award the best images from all those published from March 27th to April 5th, according to the following categories: the most artistic image, the most fun and familiar image, and the most original image.
See you there!
See the bases of the contest (catalan)
TO AVOID CAPACITY PROBLEMS IN THE EXHIBITION, YOU MUST MAKE A PREVIOUS RESERVATION BY PHONE AT THE MUSEUM: 933 841 750
Last October, Antoni Gual Lloret donated to the Museum a set of artistic works from the collection of his father, the writer Josep Gual Lloberes (Badalona 1920-2005), the majority dedicated by the authors.
Among these works is the assembly Landscape of the Ebro, made from the poem by Josep Gual that was part of his first published work, Salt in the neck, in 1964.
This artistic ensemble, by an unknown author and framed as if it was a painting, has, in the lower right part, a plaque engraved with the poem, on the left a field plate that, as a meal, has remains of bullet magazines or rusty grenades and , in the upper right, the rusted remnant of a soldier’s shoe. These elements were collected by Josep Gual himself in the area of the Battle of the Ebro.
The poem was set to music by Teresa Rebull 1969 and the piece was considered by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán as “one of the most exciting and simple songs of the civil war.”
A work, therefore, very significant that becomes part of the movable assets of the city.
International Women’s Day: Sabinia Tranquilina
Today, on the occasion of the celebration of March 8th, we want to talk about a woman who, despite being the most powerful in the Empire, did not live an easy and peaceful life, as we could imagine for her social status. Sabina Tranquilina (225-244 AD) married Gordian III at the age of 15 and became Empress of Rome from 241 to 244, the year the emperor was assassinated.
We don’t know anything about her life, the year or the place where she was born and died, we don’t know if she had children, or siblings, or who her mother was. The only thing we know of her biography corresponds to the short time she was married to Gordian III and until her tragic death, but her testimony is still alive through the material remains, such as this inscription that dedicated to her the Ordo decuriorum or Senate of Baetulo and that can be seen in the Museum of Badalona. A fragment of history written in stone that has perpetuated the name and life of this woman, in one of the most turbulent times of the Roman Empire.
International Women’s Day. Anonymous women from Badalona that made history
The exhibition Badalona on wheels that can be seen at the Museum until April 25th, is the pretext that allows us to pay a small tribute to all those anonymous women of Badalona who, with their effort, and thanks to the strength of the solidarity networks that established between them, played a key role in our recent history.
In an exhibition in which women have little prominence -the engine was formerly a world of men-, an image allows us to recover the testimony of a whole group, the female one, in one of the periods of greatest urban, economic and social changes that our city has experienced.
International Women’s Day: The Women of Baetulo
Today, in occasion of the celebration of International Women’s Day, we want to remember how women lived in Roman times. We do this from the funerary remains that we have been recovering in Badalona, specifically from a tomb with a tile box, found in 2008 during the construction of the Pompeu Fabra metro station. The skeleton of a 25-year-old girl appeared in this tomb. The funeral paraphernalia and the bony remains that accompanied it allow us to make a sketch of his life and beliefs.
March 8th is International Women’s Day or Working Women’s Day, recognized by the United Nations (UN). This day commemorates the struggle of women for their participation in the workplace and, thus, for economic independence. It is also used to vindicate feminism and to denounce sexism.
The Museum of Badalona joins this celebration and, among other actions, publishes this gallery that includes several photographs from the collections of the Archive of Images of the Museum itself, in which women (especially in the field of the world of work) is the protagonist. The photos show how, although it seems that women has incorporated recently into the world of work, she has always been linked to it, especially since the beginning of industrialization, but also to field work.
The Museum is working on a future exhibition by the artist Santiago Mateu i Pla (Malgrat de Mar 1891-Badalona 1935), who lived in Badalona for much of his life. If anyone has a paint of him, we would apreciate that contact us so that we can get to know it and, if necessary, incorporate it into the exhibition in due course.
You can contact M. Dolors Nieto: 933 841 750
Can Claris (1934). Museu de Badalona. >Núm. registre 2319.
Jardí [1915-1035]. Museu de Badalona.. Núm. de registre 2502The Orfeó Badaloní was founded on February 27th, 1921 and will soon celebrate its centenary. The promoters, five musicians from Badalona – Antoni Botey, Jaume Costa, Ramon Salsas, Salvador Valls and Joan Aymerich – stimulated the creation of an entity similar to the Orfeó Català, founded in Barcelona by Lluís Millet in 1891.
The entity Gent Nova supported from the outset the founding nucleus of the singing organization and welcomed them in its social premises. When, months later, Gent Nova disbanded, the Orfeó inherited the premises, the archives and the modernist flag of this Catalanist center.
The first performance, dedicated to the members, took place at the Zorrilla Theater on June 29th, 1921. A few months later, in March 1922, the opening concert was held in the Victoria theatre.
Taking advantage of this anniversary, we present a gallery that includes many of the oldest photographs of the entity that are preserved in the Museum’s Image Archive, as well as some others from later times.
We take this chance to wish this entity the best.
Here you can download the agenda of activities of the Museum where you will find countless proposals for the coming months.
We hope that the health situation improves and we can all enjoy it to the fullest! In the meantime, from the Museum, we take this opportunity to remind you that we take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of all our visitors.
For further information you can call 933 841 750 or email info@museudebadalona.cat
In the first years of the opening of the Badalona Museum, the institution was also the space for the reception of groups and entities from the Badalona cultural field, which projected their activity towards a population lacking cultural services of all kinds.
One of those entities was the Photographic Section. Created on April 4th, on 1965 by 87 founding members, with a first board of directors headed by two prominent photographers from Badalona, Francesc Josa and Carles Nyssen, as president and vice president. This group of Badalona people passionate about photography had a small office located on the third floor of the Museum. They also had a floor for the function room, a meeting point for the members, and a space for the exhibition and projection of the photographic works.
The Photographic Section had a very important growth not only in the number of members, but also in the scheduled activities, and made a name for itself in the world of photography in Spain. Thus, it convened some state-wide competitions in the black and white category and also in color transparencies, and also hosted exhibitions for the Negtor Awards, the photography biennials, among others.
At the end of its activity in the early eighties, some photographs -very few- remained in the Museum. This gallery presents some of the most significant for the iconic content, but especially for the photographic language and the reading of the image they present, the result of a technical development and a way of working with the image of fifty years ago.
The exceptional situation of pandemic that we have been experiencing for almost a year, has led us to start a series of virtual proposals aimed at keeping alive the connection with our audience, although we have not given up, always which has been possible, to the face-to-face activities (there is nothing like direct contact with culture!).
The proposals are aimed at promoting the creation of a wide range of digital content. Thus, the Museum’s Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube profiles have grown exponentially (from 10% of networks such as Facebook or Twitter, to 200% of Youtube), both in terms of content and the number of followers. and they have become the speakers that have contributed to spreading the history and heritage of our city through games, news, anniversaries and informative videos of all kinds.
If you are not yet a fan of our networks, we invite you to do so in order not to miss any of our proposals!
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