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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.

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The 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.

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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.

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In 2021, a new weekend proposal for our visitors arrives at the Museum. We have started a program of workshops for adults that will allow you to delve into different aspects of daily life in Roman times, and you will discover some curiosities and secrets that have lasted over the centuries and have all ended up being incorporated into the reality of the 21st century.

The workshops, which we will dedicate to aspects as diverse as the calendar, hygiene or magic and superstition, will take place on the last Sunday of the month, with the aim of becoming an essential appointment for all those interested in roman culture. To take part, tickets must be purchased in advance at the Museum reception.

The first workshop to be held on Sunday February 28th will be dedicated to Roman influence on our calendar and the one that will be held of March, which is also scheduled for the 28th, will focus on beauty, hygiene and health in Roman times.

This activity may change because of the arising from the health alert of COVID-19.

In January of last year, the Museum of Badalona received a large-format lithographic poster (210 x 78 cm) from the Coma-Cros Raventós family. It was an advertising the chemical factory and for the Amadeo Cros season ticket. .

The poster, signed by Antoni Utrillo and Agapit Vallmitjana and printed by the lithography workshop of Antoni Utrillo himself, seems to have been made around 1900 since the same drawing is used in a publication / newsletter of the company on whose first issue is from 1900.

Due to the characteristics of the paper, its state of preservation was not good and, so during the year 2020, it has been possible to proceed with the restoration and consolidation of this magnificent and unknown poster.

A piece already incorporated in the Museum’s inventories, where it is kept with the other large-format poster that is preserved, that of Ramon Casas advertising Anís del Mono.