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The new app brings collections to users

| 12 April 2018
The new application, which was premiered at the Museums of Sitges last Easter, offers the possibility to travel through Cau Ferrat and the Maricel Museum through the mobile phone, either as a tool for accompanying the physical visit to both museums or at distance from the device. The app was...view ›

The Cau Ferrat and Maricel Museum obtain the status of National Interest

| 23 March 2018
The ensemble of the museums of Cau Ferrat and Maricel acquire the condition of Museums of National Interest, as agreed by the Board of Museums of Catalonia, in a meeting held on March 13. This agreement culminates the process initiated in May last year, when the General Council of the Sitges...view ›

The Centenary of Maricel drives the activities of the Museums of Sitges

| 20 March 2018
The program of the Centenary of Maricel is expanded with new proposals aimed at different audiences, which serve as a prologue to the main acts, which will arrive in autumn, on the occasion of the commemorative exhibition. The next two acts that are added to the program are a children's workshop...view ›

Coastal archeology will be the focus on the third Journey of Archeology in Sitges

| 14 March 2018
The Museums of Sitges once again bring the archaeological debate to the forefront thanks to the third edition of the Archeology Symposium. The biannual appointment, will repeat the stage at the Palau de Maricel, but this time, later than we were accustomed to: instead of taking place at the end of...view ›

The Museums of Sitges present their own virtual application

| 27 February 2018
The Museu Mariceland the Cau Ferrat Museum will be launching, as of Easter, a new free virtual application service with audio guide to complement visits to their halls. The service is already finished and, in recent days, the staff of the Museus of Sitges has completed training sessions. The new...view ›

Sitges celebrates the centenary of the singular Maricel architectural ensemble with a cultural program and the rehabilitation of the Palau

| 7 February 2018
Maricel, the singular architectural complex that Miquel Utrillo designed in one of the most privileged places in Sitges, a hundred years ago. The Sitges Heritage Consortium has programmed a series of activities aimed at vindicating the precious legacy of one of the capital buildings to understand...view ›

Last year, exhibitions attracted to museums about 70.000 visitors

| 5 February 2018
Temporary exhibitions have become a new pole of attraction for visitors. Last year, the various exhibitions organized by Museus de Sitges or convened by other organizations in the facilities managed by the Sitges Heritage Consortium received 68,478 visitors, a significant figure that allowed the...view ›

Two paintings from the early nineteenth century from the Maricel Museum recover their original state

| 5 February 2018
The Restoration Service of the Sitges Heritage Consortium has restored two drawings dating from 1810, made by an Italian anonymous artist and part of the Collection of Dr. Jesús Pérez - Roses of the Museu Maricel. These are two works that needed an urgent action to improve their condition and...view ›

The Museums of Sitges gathered more than 123.000 visitors during 2017

| 17 January 2018
New record of annual visitors to the Museums of Sitges. If by 2015 the reopening of the Cau Ferrat and the Museu de Maricel were received, 106,392 people - more than triple the 30,702 of 2014 - and 2016 was settled with 70,481 visits, 2017 was closed reaching the historic figure of 123,372 visitors...view ›

The Palau de Maricel enters into 2018 with the first heritage refurbishment

| 4 January 2018
The Palau de Maricel started this week the first action to reform the building, one of the different works that will be carried out throughout 2018, the year in which its centenary is commemorated. This is an exceptional action - complementary to the extensive structural reform financed by the City...view ›

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