Ethnology

In the ethnographic field, the museum is notable for having one of the institution’s most emblematic collections, the wine collection, a collection that owes its origin to the founding of the first Wine Museum in Spain in 1943, and which bears witness to centuries of activity in growing vines and producing wine in Catalan wineries. Along with a wide and interesting repertoire of field and winery utensils, there are also collections of ceramic and glass vessels that illustrate the uses and customs that humankind has gone on to impose in relation to the consumption of wine.

For more than fifty years, this collection has been accompanied by one of the elements that have become a sign of the old museum’s identity, the wine dioramas, which narrate, in a unique and aesthetic way, the history of the vineyard and wine through about twenty scenes with figures designed by local artists Pau Boada and Lluís M. Güell, made in the Castells brothers’ workshop in Barcelona.