INAUGURATION OF THE HOUSE MUSEUM
The Casa Museu will open next November to the public with the aim of showing the first exhibition of the Nuria Pla Collection. It is one of the most important collections, unique in the world, and composed of 850 pieces of furniture, sculpture, goldsmithing, painting and other objects and antiques.
The collection is located in a stately building of neoclassical character with neo-baroque facade adorned with a stone frieze and vases with flowers carved on the roof and three windows with semicircular arches separated by columns.
This building was designed by the architect Adolf Florensa with ‘Noucentista’ influences. The Noucentisme was a cultural and artistic movement very present in Catalonia in the first third of the twentieth century. At the back was the Ravetllat-Pla Institute, which was founded by Dr. Ramon Pla and the veterinarian Joaquim Ravetllat, who were doing pharmaceutical research with horses to find the serum to cure tuberculosis. This building also housed the Basque Government in exile in Barcelona during the Civil War.
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