Fourteen dolls from the Lola Anglada Collection are undergoing a restoration process.

Fourteen dolls from the Lola Anglada collection are undergoing a restoration process, carried out in the Sitges Museums workshop by a specialized team. The work is currently underway and aims to fully restore the entire collection, comprising more than 400 pieces. Other pieces have been restored in recent years.

The main task of the restoration is textile-related, as it involves restoring the clothes worn by the dolls. A process of cleaning, fixing pieces, and restoring supports and polychromy, in some cases lost over the years, is also carried out. The pieces are cleaned using cotton swabs, distilled water, and neutral soap.

The oldest pieces restored date from 1835-1855 and were made in Paris. The most recent dates from between 1920 and 1934 in the German city of Mannheim. Most of the dolls are French, and one was made in Barcelona in 1894 by Roger Pascual.

This Friday the 24th (in the Gothic Room of the Maricel Museum), restorer Cristina Balaguer will explain the process behind the restoration of an antique doll in an exhibition that combines science, history, and artistic sensibility.

The Lola Anglada Doll Collection is made up of garments from a wide variety of styles, manufactures, and periods, spanning the 17th and 19th centuries. For writer, painter, and illustrator Lola Anglada (Barcelona, ​​1892 - Tiana, 1964), this collection represented the sentimental desire to recover childhood and the lost forms of the 19th century. The collection was acquired by the Barcelona Provincial Council in 1961, which bequeathed it to the Romantic Museum, where it is housed today.