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The departure media matters today takes us to visit a museum media matters pioneer. It is a museum where visitors are being reflected, it is an ethnographic museum, and because many of the things that we know are exposed and some, even, we have been using. But we can see things and habits maybe not known today. It is a museum that explains the customs of the people of the town and the region where it is located, but also the society and the society of a few decades media matters ago. It is located next to one of the jewels of Catalan Romanesque, media matters is the first ethnographic museum in Catalonia and is Ripollès. Today we visit the Ethnographic Museum in Ripoll.
The current Ethnographic Museum Ripoll was founded in 1929 by Thomas and Raguer Fossas with filename Folk Museum in Ripoll. Raguer was part of the group of folklorists media matters Ripoll, who in 1920 joined several researchers in the area with a common interest in Catalonia and ethnography. Led by Sierra Rossend and Labrador, dedicated to collecting objects and intangible heritage, such as songs, dances, customs, legends, oral expressions ... An important aspect is that the initiators of the museum dedicated not only to collect and collective Select objects, but from the start they put a systematic media matters order, more in line with social science as ethnology. Initially the museum occupied the attic of the old church of St. Peter, which is alongside the Monastery of Santa Maria, where he remained until 2000, when it closed because it qualifies for a public media matters facility. After 10 years of readjustment, March 26, 2011 was inaugurated the new headquarters Budallés Can a stately building that is in the same place Abat Oliva, next to the old.
The Archive of Folk Museum Ripoll was born from the realization that they have that group of people that society was changing media matters rapidly, industrialization brought new ways and new habits and make an important cultural heritage could lose very little time . This prompted them to pick up objects and document the cultural heritage of the environment and, by extension, the country. The group was formed folklorists Ripoll, besides the aforementioned Thomas Raguer, pharmaceutical, archivist, historian and folklorist; Rossend and Sierra, writer, ethnographer, grammarian, teacher and commercial geography; Vilarrasa Salvador, rural landowner and folklorist; John Raguer media matters priest and cousin Thomas; Nuria rocks Vilarrasa wife; Joseph Ribot, draftsman and painter; Agustin Casanova; Zenon Puig pharmacist; Eduald Graell; and Gonzalo Cutrina, hiking and researcher of local and regional history.
The museum building is ground floor and two floors media matters and is divided into twelve areas and collections. Downstairs, in addition to the reception room and multipurpose room Raguer Thomas Augustine temporary Casanova is the area that carries the title of Ripoll Ripollčs. media matters You can find an overview of the history of the town and the region, with some of the archaeological finds that have been made over time. There is also a section devoted to the monastery of Santa Maria and another dedicated to the medieval wall of Ripoll, media matters which is an interactive panel noted the layout of your wall, and photographs that show us how different areas were still there when the walls and as they are today. On the floor there are some sections coated glass that let you see the remains of canvas walls. Among the exhibits is the fragment of a mosaic of the twelfth century monastery nearby.
The thickness of the areas of the museum are divided between the first and second floor. We start by visiting the second floor where the first level we find is that the museum is dedicated to the former. Besides the story, which we have already explained, media matters we can see a beautiful diorama made in 1932 by renowned set designers Alarm Salvador and Joseph Masters, his disciple, who were the authors of many of the Liceu opera sets. The diorama scene reproduces media matters a mountain: action plan puts us Anyella the evening shows and pastors returning to the fold with the flock. It was a way that people could see the valley in an area ferést