Museum's temporary exhibitions summary
2006 exhibitions

Beloved Landscapes

From 5th to 29th October
It is an exhibition of oil paintings painted by Jordi Isern, a local artist. "Beloved landscapes" shows us Isern's patience and his accuracy in choosing the places where life is plain and peaceful, where everybody knows each other, places surrounded by mountains, rivers and stagnant water.

The exhibition contains pictures from la Alpujarra of Granada, la vall d'en Bas (Olot), el Priorat and its vineyards, snowed landscapes from la Cerdanya, the Pyrenees, Montblanc and Alcover, and others.

However, almost all the contents of the exhibition are based on themes of his province, Tarragona, and especially Alcover.

Exhibition curated by Jordi Isern and the Municipal Museum of Alcover.

The public libraries in peace and war time

De l'1 al 29 de desembre
Recorregut històric, des dels seus inicis fins a la democràcia, de la trajectòria de les biblioteques populars o públiques a Catalunya, que mostra el compromís de les institucions públiques, els intel·lectuals, els bibliotecaris i altres agents, per fer arribar a la població, en igualtat de condicions, el llibre i la cultura.

Exposició produïda pel Servei de Biblioteques de la Diputació de Barcelona.

"The return of the confiscated documents of Catalonia"

Del 4 al 15 d'octubre
El 31 de gener de 2006 van arribar a l'Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya des del Ministeri de Cultura els documents confiscats a Catalunya durant la Guerra Civil de 1936-39, coneguts com a 'Papers de Salamanca'.

L'exposició itinerant "El retorn dels documents confiscats a Catalunya", és una versió reduïda de l'exposició presentada al Palau Moja de Barcelona del 5 de febrer al 12 de març, amb motiu de la recepció dels documents de la Generalitat de Catalunya que s'han conservat a l'Archivo General de la Guerra Civil Española de Salamanca.

Exposició produïda per l'Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya

"The camí del Molí archaeological site. New evidence of the Romans in Alcover."

From 16th June to 3rd September
This exhibition contains the archaeological remains discovered while building the high speed train railway in the area known as "camí del Molí" (Alcover, Alt Camp).
The archaeological excavation documents the unearthing of two storage structures, a silo and a well to extract water, though to be from a pars fructuaria or a possible Roman settlement.

The importance of this small archaeological site, where we could only document four structures, is its chronology, a very concrete chronology and at the same time quite unknown in the city of Tarragona, especially outside the city walls; the transition from the Republic to the Empire.
Thanks to this intervention we know the new political change affecting the Roman society in different levels, among them the economic and commercial ones. It is the period in which black glazed crockery usage is being substituted by the red glaze -terra sigillata- and also the beginning of the cultivation and consumerism on a large scale of peninsular wine as opposed to the ones of Italic origin.

Exhibition curated by MMAL (Municipal Museum of Alcover).

2005 exhibitions

A glance at an Andorran doctor. An account from 1980-1920. Photographs of Tarragona taken by Joaquim de Riba Camarlot.

From 2nd to 30th November
This exhibition allows us to take a look at the photographic art work of the Andorran doctor Joaquim de Riba Camarlot. the images taken are those from the countryside, people and the activities of five districts of the Tarragona province: l'Alt Camp, el Baix Camp, el Baix Penedès, el Priorat, and el Tarragonès.

Joaquim de Riba studied medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at Universitat de Barcelona from 1879 to 1886. In October 1880 he worked as a nurse at the Hospital de la Santa Creu where after a year he gave up his job for family reasons. In 1890 he moved to Alcover (l'Alt Camp) and two years later Alcover Council elected him as doctor and surgeon of impoverished families. This is why we find lots of images from these districts of Tarragona. In 1903 Alcover's Health Committe elected him health inspector.

Exhibition curated by the Culture Department from the Generalitat de Catalunya and Andorra Government, and coordinated by the Tarragona Historical Archive.

Tarraco

From 18th March to 8th April
Through centuries Tarraco has aroused the interest of historians, archaeologists, and other scientists. Its bibliographical, historiographical and documental wealth left is the basis of the work we are carrying out nowadays. This is the first public work based on the project "Tarraco, virtual reconstruction", a project to recreate with modern technology the Roman Tarraco. The virtual images are based on rigorous data, elaborated with archaeological and pedagogical criteria. According to all the information that has allowed us to carry out this study, the virtual models are accurate to the original ones from the period. In the cases of there being no existing data about the city, hypothetical models have been created based on other models similar to Tarraco. Today Tarragona is visited daily by a large number of visitors of which are attracted to Tarragona due to its selection as a World Heritage site and to its historical legacy created by this open air museum that is Tarragona.

Exhibition curated by Autoritat Portuària de Tarragona and Centre d'Estudis Marítims i d'Activitats de Tarragona.

2004 exhibitions

Victor Horn. A German photographer in the Spanish Civil War

From 12th March to 18th April
Victor's Horn's exhibition begins in the 1920's when he arrives in Reus until 1936, when the Spanish Civil War starts. His exhibition is formed by images from everyday life, local celebrations from Reus and Tarragona, and political and social events from the period.

The second part, the most important one, corresponds to the Spanish Civil War period. After his four-month stay in Germany in 1936 where he photographs Nazi parades and the Berlin Olympic Games, Horn follows the conflict from the front line with the Condor Legion.

The exhibition finishes with a period that coincides with the last years of this photographer who was established in Reus.

Exhibition curated by Fundació Caixa de Tarragona.

The dry stone landscape

From 14th May to 27th of June

Building with dry stones can be defined as a way of raising walls without using mortar (such as sand, water or cement) or whatever material used to join the stones together assuring a solid structure. On one hand, this building technique is used to build exterior walls. Whilst, on the other hand, rural shelters and annexed buildings.

This is a photographic exhibition that captures different dry-stone constructions all around the Mediterranean, from simple refuges to true architectonic structures.


Exhibition curated by European Projects, GIEM (Grup de Recerca del Gènere, la Interculturalitat i els Estudis Culturals de la Mediterrània) and URV (Universitat Rovira i Virgili).

100 years of Patufet

From 5th November to 5th December

The exhibition is part of the Patufet magazine centenary.
This exhibition collects a sample at of this weekly magazine, from both first and second periods, (The different prices, formats, and calendar) including an original copy of the first edition of the collection.
Furthermore, there are also other children's magazines created to compensate in the gradual increase of interest of Patufet as an adolescent magazine, like these of Virolet (1922-1931) and then substituted by Esquitx (1931-1936).
Patufet also offered its readers stickers and games, a broad collection of stories, and the Patufet library (1910-1938), of which some examples are included in this exhibition.

Exhibition curated by Jaume Miralles, Municipal Museum of Alcover, Municipal Library of Alcover.