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| Museu d'Arenys de Mar. Museu Marès de la Punta | |
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| Location | Arenys de Mar, Spain |
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| Coordinates | 41°34′55″N2°32′56″E / 41.58197874°N 2.54884377°E /41.58197874; 2.54884377 |
| Type | museum |
| Website | museu |
  Location of Arenys de Mar Museum | |
Arenys de Mar Museum (Catalan:Museu d'Arenys de Mar) is a museum inArenys de Mar,Spain. It is made up of two different sections: the Marès Lace Museum and the Mollfulleda Mineralogy Museum, and it also conserves and exhibits the collection from the old Arenys de Mar Fidel Fita Municipal Museum.[1]
The Marès Lace Museum (Catalan:Museu Marès de la Punta) is located in a 17th-century building, the former Hospital de Sant Jaume, which was turned into a museum in 1983 to house the Frederic Marèslace collection. Currently it is a monographic museum, dedicated to lace making, which brings together different collections, such as those of Tórtola Valencia, Vives-Nadal and the Castells collection.
One of the rooms in the Marès Lace Museum exhibits a representative sample from the old Fidel Fita Municipal Museum collection, which includes pieces of diverse origin from throughout the history ofArenys de Mar. This space houses remains from the Torre dels EncantatsIberian settlement and a collection of nautical artefacts.
This museum was founded on 9 October 1988 thanks to a donation by Joaquim Mollfulleda i Borrell, who bestowed his mineral collection on the town ofArenys de Mar. It is located in a historic building where, in 1790, Josep Baralt founded the firstnautical school in Spain. The Mollfulleda Mineralogy Museum isscientific in nature and houses a valuable collection ofminerals from around the world, systematically classified.
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