Ethnology

In the field of ethnography, the museum excels with one of its most emblematic collections: the wine collection. This collection originated with the founding of the first Wine Museum in Spain in 1943 and bears witness to centuries of activity in vine cultivation and wine production in Catalan wineries. Alongside a wide and fascinating array of tools from the vineyard and the winery, the collection also features ceramic and glass containers that illustrate the customs and practices humans have developed around wine consumption. For more than fifty years, this collection has been accompanied by one of the elements that has become a hallmark of the former museum: the wine dioramas, which uniquely and aesthetically narrate the history of the vine and wine through about twenty scenes with figures designed by local artists Pau Boada and Lluís M. Güell and crafted at the Castells brothers’ workshop in Barcelona.