Museu Frederic Marès

The Museu Frederic Marès is located in the heart of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, in part of the former royal palace which was once home to the Counts of Barcelona. The museum includes an extensive and valuable collection of art works and objects which Frederic Marès collected throughout his life.
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The collection is divided into two main sections: the sculpture collection and a collection of everyday objects and collectors’ items, called the Gabinet del Coleccionista.
The sculpture collection features works of art from around Spain spanning the pre-Roman period to the 19th century, and includes important exhibits from the Middle Ages and polychrome religious carvings.

Spanish sculptures from the Renaissance and baroque periods are also widely represented and there are examples of works from the main Spanish schools of sculpture, from the medieval period to modern times.

The Gabinet del Colleccionista showcases a series of handcrafted objects that bear witness to the everyday lives of our ancestors from the 15th to 19th centuries and is divided into three galleries.
 


The Sala Femenina is one of the galleries that best represents the museum Frederic Marès’s collection and bears witness to women’s lives during the romantic era. It contains a collection of fans, combs, jewellery, clothing and other fashion accessories.
The Sala de les Diversions, features toy theatres, automata, toys and retains all the charm and evocative power of the entertainments of yore.
The Sala del Fumador  features a wide variety of pipes, an item that attained great levels of sophistication in terms of the quality of its materials and unusual shapes.

Next : the 16th-century Palau del Lloctinent (12), or Lieutenant’s Palace, which has a beautiful Renaissance courtyard.
Previous :  the Verger del Palau Reial (10), the garden of the former Royal Palace of the Counts of Barcelona.