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During the Christmas holidays, the Museum will be closed on Friday 22th (afternoon), Monday 25th, Tuesday 26th, Friday 29th December (afternoon), Monday 1st, Friday 5th in the afternoon and Saturday 6th January, all day.

tancat el divendres 22 (tarda), el dilluns 25, el dimarts 26, el divendres 29 de desembre (tarda), el dilluns 1, el divendres 5 a la tarda i el dissabte 6 de gener, tot el dia.

The Christmas holidays will also affect the opening hours of the City Historical Archive, which will be closed the week of December 25th to 31st.

Last November 24th, the communicologist and designer from Badalona Joan Costa Solà-Segalés (1926-2022) died. Considered one of the world’s leading researchers in communication, signaling, schematics and scientigraphy, alongside personalities such as Gillo Dorfles, Angelo Schwartz, Vilém Flusser, Umberto Eco, Luc Janizevski, Elisabeth Rohmer, Victor Schwach or Abraham Moles, Costa Solà-Segalés also had a brief career as an artist in his youth.

Formed at the Llotja, Costa Solà-Segalés was mainly influenced by Impressionist painting. He exhibited in Barcelona (Saló de Tardor), Badalona and Sant Adrià de Besòs, and was awarded in Sant Adrià and Badalona. He worked mostly in pencil portraiture and painting but, ultimately, it would be in the field of design and communication where he would succeed. He was a professor at the Visual School of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​and is the author of more than twenty books and hundreds of articles on communication, sociology of the image and design.

Two works from that first period in which he became interested in painting and drawing are preserved in the collections of our Museum. The first is the portrait of a cousin of the author, Rosa Motino Solà-Segalés, who was 17 years old at the time. This work, an oil painting, was presented at the local exhibition of Fine Arts in Badalona in 1947 and was awarded the first prize in the category of local authors. In 2020 it was included in the Portraits exhibition that could be seen at the Museum in the spring and summer of that year, right after the months of confinement. The second work, titled Descans, was acquired for 2,000 pesetas by the Badalona City Council, after it was part of the Local Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1951 and was awarded one of the special prizes. Years later, the work would enter the Museum’s Art Fund.

                                                       Portrait of Rosa Motino Solà-Segalés (1947) and Descans (1951)

Today, Thursday, November 24th, the Spanish School of History and Archeology in Rome-CSIC presents the publication Ciudades Romanas de Hispania, published in two volumes by the publishing house Erma di Bretschneider, in its collection of Ancient History, Series archaeological

The work, edited by Trinidad Nogales Basarrate, includes a chapter dedicated to the Roman city of Baetulo.

This publication represents the culmination of the “Ciudades Romanas de Hispania” project which was born with the aim of collecting updated information on 63 Roman cities of the Iberian Peninsula, chosen from the Roman provinces of Tarraconensis, Baetica and Lusitania. As part of the project, a series of international conferences dedicated to these cities have taken place for two years (2020-2022) which have been given by the Research Department of the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida and which can be retrieved at through the youtube channel of this institution.

The Museum periodically incorporates numerous donations from people, entities and institutions linked to Badalona into its collections. The objects and documents are registered, classified and documented according to their nature and characteristics, and are placed in the Museum’s reserve rooms, where they are kept in the appropriate conditions for their conservation. They can also be integrated into the Museum’s permanent exhibitions or temporary exhibitions.

We want to show our gratitude to all the people who have put their trust in us for their invaluable contribution and to help us grow the Museum of all.

Donations of pieces and photographs from the year 2022

Assoc Veïns del Centre, set of photographs of activities of the neighborhood association over several years; Dolors Ballester, several pieces of clothing for men and women made in Badalona; Mercè Clapés Mongay, girl’s dresses and bridesmaid’s dress from the 1968 Floral Games and wedding dress made by Badalona dressmaker Maryse from 1960; Carme Clarós Sanchez, two sets of cocktail dresses and three women’s dresses made by the Badalona dressmaker, Pedro Rovira; Rosa Colomé, two oil paintings by Martí Pujol and Concepcion Caritg; José Francisco Carrasco, set of photographs from the seventies; Gemma Dorado Platero, silver wedding reminder of Ramon Barriga and Dolors Remisa; David Ferrés Campí, digital photographs of the column with the Sagrat Cor de la Vall de Pomar; Josep Maria and Maria Rosa Fulquet Vidal, oil painting by Antoni Ros Güell; Martín Gallego, copies of the book Dragonflies Walk as well as the photographic and production material that make it up; Josep Guinot Mauchan, photographs and documents La Productora de Bòrax SA and different chemical articles; Albert Ibáñez, digital copy of photographs of the theater group S’estira i S’arronsa (seventies); Sebastià Lladó, deposit transfer of two model boats; Francesca Niubó, set of photographs (mainly Institut Albéniz); Josep Pujals Llopart work clothes from Montalifita SA; REBASA, medalist of Deutsch and Cia.; Gerard Remendo, copy of several photographs of city spaces at the end of the 20th century; Teresa Sàbat del Riu, greeting card from Badalona by Pedro Rovira; Josep M. Sabater and Coloma Lleal, donation of several photographs and negatives, and a figure of a wooden Virgin; Edelmir Sancho, copy of several photographs of activities of the Aspirantat de Santa Maria; Jaume Solà Campmany, various photographic material (negatives, photographs on paper, slides), 1980s; Glòria Vicens Hernández, three women’s dresses by Pedro Rovira; Josep Vidal Gombau, handmade crochet bedspread by Madrona Gombau.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 19th, the Museum hosts the III Colloquium of Roman Archeology dedicated to Wine in Antiquity begins and will last until Friday, October 21st.

The meeting, which will bring together a hundred specialists from Spain, France, Italy or Portugal, will allow us to know about the latest developments and exchange methods, experiences and perspectives on the exciting world of wine in the Roman era.

The Congress is organized with the collaboration of the University of Barcelona, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Catalan Institute of Classical Archeology (ICAC), the Museum of Archeology of Catalonia, the Institute of Catalan Studies and Wine tourism DO Alella and is intended for archeology professionals. Once finished, however, we will explained you the main Badalonian contributions that derive from the colloquium in a conference of the cycle Archaeological Novelties.

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