10 Specialty Museums in Province of Barcelona That You Shouldn't Miss

Magic mon del tren is a venue dedicated to the hobby of collecting and model-making. This new facility in our country attempts to introduce the unknown miniature train world to the general public of any age. Josep Arumi Bou has been a Marklin train collector since 1984. During all this time he has been making up an important collection of locomotives and passenger and freight cars in gauge HO (1:87) together with other gauge 1 elements. On the ground floor of his house he had several glass cabinets containing a part of this collection and two gauge HO layouts. The oldest one, built in 1991 using M railway tracks, recreated the stream railway world. The other one, more recently built using K and C railway tracks, recreated the modern electric traction railway. His dearest wish to expand his collection and to go on working with railway models and layouts, together with his aim to show it to both model train enthusiasts and to the general public, led him to design and build a big railway center: Magic mon del tren (The magical world of trains). It hosts his private collection and two big layouts: a gauge HO operating layout and a gauge 1 layout under construction. This exhibition (museum) is placed in a modern three-story building of 1000 m2 . It meets all the safety and access standards and it is well-equipped with the latest technologies.

Through former industrial textile manufacturing spaces and the spectacular architecture of this Modernist building the museum shows the evolution of scientific and technological advances in Catalonia, paying special attention to their industrial application and their effect on society.

El Museo del Ferrocarril de Cataluña que se encuentra en Vilanova i la Geltrú es un valioso equipamiento patrimonial dedicado al mundo ferroviario y al servicio de las personas. Desde prácticamente su constitución en el año 1990 está gestionado por un organismo cultural del sector público, la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, creada para la recuperación, custodia, divulgación y transmisión del patrimonio histórico del ferrocarril. Actualmente en su Patronato están representadas las principales empresas del sector ferroviario del Estado. A su vez también forma parte del Sistema Territorial de museos del Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Técnica de Cataluña y de la red de Museos de Vilanova.

It was built at the beginning of the 19th century as a workshop and home for animportant manufacturer from Terrassa. Original mural paintings have been preserved from this period. Major refurbishment in 1911 converted the building into a model for middle-class housing in Terrassa in an eclectic style within the Modernist movement. Of particular importance are paintings by Alexandre de Riquer which are presently on display in the dining room. In the different rooms of this building, visitors appreciate collections of great interest such as the Salvans collection of Far Eastern art, paintings by Martinez Lozano, drawings by Mateu Avellaneda and the legacies of the writers Agusti Bartra and Ferran Canyameres

Can Papiol is a house-museum that evokes the daily life of a wealthy 19th century family through the ambiance of its rooms, which are decorated with original furniture and ornaments of their period. It was inaugurated as a museum in 1961. The most sumptuous part of the house is the main floor, which rooms preserve the richness of the refined taste of the 19th century; the music room, the billiard room and the large ballroom, are some of the most interesting and luxurious. The tour resumes through the rooms of the servants, the farming area and the garden. *All visits are guided. It is recommended to make a prior reservation on the website.

The Muleteers's Museum - collection Antoni Ros explains the evolution of transport both goods and people using energies of blood and, at the same time, it shows the relationships between different trades that helped the development of the done muleteer in Igualada. The broad representation of tools and utensils that accumulate these offices, together with the presence of different carts, carriages, saddles and fittings made of Antoni Ros collection a veritable Museum of Arts and crafts applied to the world of transport in Modern Catalonia.