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As the ancient collectors of the 19th century, the collection is divided into several subcollections because of
Balaguer's multidisciplinary interest. Although the majority of the collection was given by Balaguer, the museum has incorporated and enriched his collections through the years with several
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Oriental collection is made of three big donations from Eduard Toda, Francesc Abellá and Juan Mencarini. All of them had a good relationship with Víctor Balaguer. This collection stresses the numismatic collection donated by Juan Mencarini. It is made up of his direct purchase in China and they
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It was conceived to make known, through objects and documents of all kinds, the entirety of the knowledge. His founder contributed with books, magazines and other documents. The founder's intention was to open it to any citizen "without any kind of economic or social exclusion" it was the precedent
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Nowadays, there are 50.000 books and almost 2.000 daily publications from between 18th and 19th century. Moreover, there also are around 50.000 letters and several literary and political manuscripts from Víctor
Balaguer. All of this turns it into one of the richest bibliographic collections of the
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Balaguer Library Museum's bulletin (ISSN 0212-6168) is an annual informative publication edited by the Library Museum Víctor Balaguer's Friends' Association. It collects information related with the bibliographic and artistic collection from Balaguer's Institution. It talks about the
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was alive, 2) donations after his death until 1939. In the excavations block there are 3 groups: 1) foundational excavations until 1939, 2) excavations carried out by the
Studies Centre of the Library Víctor Balaguer (1951-1982) and 3) excavations deposited at the Museum Balaguer until now.
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among others. It basically shows the founder's original collection and paintings donated by the own artists. The works are shown in chronological order so as to evoke Roma's school about
Catalan art in the 19th century. In the hall there also is the Monteleon's park defense from
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The collection is made up of objects from daily life, war and religious coming from international expositions such as the
Anthropological Sciences Contest of Paris in 1878 or the Philippine General Exposition of the Palacio de Cristal del Retiro of Madrid in 1887.
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This collection is made up of other smaller collections (glass, ceramics and metal) that give a full image of Víctor
Balaguer's collecting passion. Little but splendid samples that have exceptional objects such as a Mozarabic mortar from the 12th century.
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Alsina i Galofré, Esther. Una gran època artística rau en una col·lecció: el "Llegat 1956". Article publicat al
Butlletí de la Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer. Vilanova i la Geltrú: Associació d'Amics de la Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer, 2010. ISSN
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The museum also has a multisensorial module called "Tactile Look", a tactile interpretation space addressed to everybody but especially adapted and designed for those visitors that have visual difficulties, blindness or to disabled people.
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has deposited several works that are changed periodically. This deposit is often made up of
Castilian, Andalusian and Valencian paintings from between the 16th and the 18th century, there are works from well-known artists such as
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Castilian and Andalusian schools are more represented here than the Flemish and the Italian. The paintings are distributed in four big thematic areas: religious painting, portrait, mythology and nature, including still life.
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Over the years the building has undergone several alterations and changes, but in the last one they choose recovering the original style designed by Granell and therefore recovering the natural light inside the halls.
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donations and acquisitions. As of 2023, the museum's artistic holdings consist of 10,500 different objects, with an emphasis on painting and sculpture of the 19th century. Since the year of its foundation, the
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of a five years old kid called Nesi, one of the five unique mummies that are nowadays preserved in Catalan museums. The museum's Egyptian collection was the first one in Catalonia and was donated in 1886 by
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Rosich Salvó, Mireia. Butlletí de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer. Setena època. El Museu en els seus orígens. Quina col.lecció tenía Balaguer abans d'obrir al Museu?, Octubre 2009, pàg. 39-61. ISSN 0212-6168.
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Jardí i Soler, Eulàlia. Butlletí de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer. Setena època. Els fons de l'Extrem Orien en el Llegat Fundacional de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer, Octubre 2010, pàg. 29-44. ISSN 0212-6168.
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Ginés Blasi, Mònica. Butlletí de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer. Setena època. Estudi preliminar de la col·lecció de moneda xinesa de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer, Octubre 2011, pàg. 115-128. ISSN 0212-6168.
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Miret i Mestre, Magí. Miscel·lània Penedesenca. Joan Bellmunt i Poblet (1915-1990) i la secció arqueològica del Centre d'estudis de la Biblioteca-Museu Balaguer: Un model local d'arqueologia., 1993, pàg.
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Ginés Blasi, Mònica. Butlletí de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer. Setena època. Estudi preliminar de la col·lecció de moneda xinesa de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer, Octubre 2011, pàg. 115-128. ISSN 0212-6168
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C.CID PRIEGO. La colección precolombina de la Biblioteca-Museo Balaguer a <<Butlletí de la Biblioteca-Museu Balaguer>>, 5a.època, III. Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1955. pàg.3-16.
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The archaeological collection is made of two big blocks: the foundational donations coming from different parts of the world; and the ones coming from local excavations especially from
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In December 2010 the Children's Corner was inaugurated. It is a new permanent space in the museum addressed to children, here they can draw and express in an artistic level.
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among others. Most of these paintings are small and they were donated to the Institution in 1956. The year gives the name to the whole collection as Legate of the 56.
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Mormeneo de Najas, Lluís. Els arqueòlegs del museu. Els arqueòlegs precientífics.2001, l'Any Víctor Balaguer, «L'Hora del Garraf», 18 maig 2001, pàg. Cultura.
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Mormeneo de Najas, Lluís. Els arqueòlegs del museu. Els col.leccionistes del XIX.2001, l'Any Víctor Balaguer, «L'Hora del Garraf», 4-maig-2001, pàg. Cultura.
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Mormeneo de Najas, Lluís. Els arqueòlegs del museu. Els arqueòlegs recollidors.2001, l'Any Víctor Balaguer, «L'Hora del Garraf», 11 maig 2001, pàg. Cultura.
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Muñoz d'Imbert, Sílvia. «Surge et Ambula. 125 anys de la Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer». Bonart , num. 122 (Desembre 2009), p. 56. ISSN 1885-4389.
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founded in 1963 so as to prevent the dispersion of this important collection, considered as the most complete informalist arts collection in Catalonia.
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Mormeneo de Najas, Lluís. Els arqueòlegs del museu. Els últims arqueòlegs.2001, l'Any Víctor Balaguer, «L'Hora del Garraf», 25 maig 2001, pàg. Cultura.
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Related with the local history there is a hall with paintings of the old Cafè Foment and a little space with works from the Vilanova School.
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library's search and the activities carried out during the previous year at the Institution. It is available on the website raco.cat.
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among others. The museum also preserves the municipal Catalan painting collection of the 19th century that until 1996 was shown at
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Trullén, Josep Maria (dir). Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer. Guia de les Col·leccions del Museu. Organisme Autònom BMVB, 2001.
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At the second floor halls there are paintings and sculptures of the main artists of the first half of the 20th century such as
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so as to thank the city for its support during his politician career. Since 2000 the museum is part of the
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hall there is one of the best Catalan painting collections of the 19th century, with works from
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and it is located in the centre of Vilanova i la Geltrú, surrounded by the railway station, the
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Toda i Güell, Eduard. Biblioteca-Museo Balaguer. Catálogo de la Colección Egipcia, 1887. ISBN.
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are represented almost all de dynasties of the Chinese imperial past. It was donated in 1888.
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