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Documentation Center
The VINSEUM Documentation Center (CDV) is an information resource center open to all citizens to support learning, teaching, and research within the field of vine and wine cultures.
Its mission is to be a documentary and informational reference in the cultures of the vine and wine in the Catalan region. The CDV manages a bibliographic and hemerographic collection specialized in vine and wine cultures, both modern and ancient. It also manages the archive, formed by the museum’s collections, external archives, and documentary collections.
On the other hand, the CDV preserves books, pamphlets, magazines, and archive collections—among which the musical archive stands out—of local scope, heritage of a local collection that began at the time of the museum’s foundation.
Information
Services
- On-site consultation
- Bibliographic information
- Lending service and interlibrary loan
- Reprography
Schedule
Tuesday and Thursday
9:30 am to 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday and Friday
9:30 am to 1:30 pm
Closed
Monday, Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays
Contact
Palma 24, baixos
08720 Vilafranca del Penedès (Barcelona)
Phone 938 923 204
cdv@vinseum.cat
Explore the Archives
Bibliographic catalog
The CDV Library consists of more than 20,000 volumes. Among others, it includes the library of historian Emili Giralt i Raventós and those of the Viticulture and Oenology Stations of Vilafranca del Penedès and Reus.
The catalogued volumes can be consulted in the bibliographic catalog of the URV CRAI, of which the CDV is an affiliated center.
Vine and wine magazines
Check the almost 230 titles of magazines specialized in vine and wine, and the issues you can find at the CDV. If any are digitized, we provide you with the link.
Local magazines
Check the almost 200 titles of magazines published in Vilafranca or the Penedès, and the issues you can find at the CDV. If any are digitized, we provide you with the link.
Archive collection
Archives and collections you can find at the CDV. It includes VINSEUM’s own holdings, as well as corporate holdings such as Gráficas Varias or personal ones such as Àngel Escudé’s label collection.
Musical archive
Currently, works by more than two thousand different authors can be consulted, spanning from the 16th to the 21st century. You can also find a documentary collection, a sound library, and a library focused on the Catalan field that includes works received through donations and published books.
Most Festival documentaries
Record of documentaries screened at the different editions of the Most Festival.
Awards and Grants
The VINSEUM Documentation Center (CDV) is an information resource center open to all citizens to support learning, teaching, and research within the field of vine and wine cultures.
Museum Publications
Privilegis, patents i marques de fàbrica de vins, licors i destil·lats a Catalunya i les Illes Balears (1820-1939)
Cacics i rabassaires
De Re Vinaria
Història de les varietats de vinya autòctones i tradicionals de Catalunya
Vins, aiguardents i caves: la comercialització de la producció vinícola catalana
Viticultura, desigualtat i conflicte agrari
Vitis Catalana
Vitis Catalana is a specialized research tool on grape varieties present in Catalan-speaking and cultural territories throughout the centuries. It offers historical, terminological, and/or descriptive information about these varieties, based on information extracted from bibliographic and archival documents.
The genesis of this tool is the approximately 15,000 handwritten cards prepared by historian Emili Giralt i Raventós—and deposited at the VINSEUM Documentation Center—in which Dr. Giralt collected the names of varieties found in all kinds of documents, which were linked to a specific period and a specific territory. Currently, Vitis Catalana offers about 4,000 references, corresponding to about 260 varieties and extracted from about 200 documents.
The Vitis Catalana project is promoted by the Viticulture and Oenology Section of the Catalan Institution of Agrarian Studies (IEC) and VINSEUM, and led by the VINSEUM Documentation Center. Its objective is the study and dissemination of traditional Catalan grape varieties.
Research Projects
Wine production and consumption: a journey between chemistry and archaeology in the western Mediterranean
Project focused on the analysis to detect the presence of wine in ceramic vessels and stone elements dated between the Bronze Age and the Middle Ages from the sites of Mas d’En Boixos 1 (Pacs del Penedès) and Olèrdola.
The project has the participation of Alessandra Pecci as principal investigator, and as associate researchers: Simona Mileto and Gisela Ripoll (ERAAUB, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona), Núria Molist (Archaeology Museum of Catalonia), Jordi Farré (VINSEUM), and Xavier Esteve (ERAAUB), and is funded by the Palarq foundation, through the University of Barcelona.
The paper “Wine production and consumption in Alt Penedès between the end of Prehistory and the High Middle Ages. Residue analysis in ceramic vessels” is presented within the framework of the III International Colloquium on Wine in Antiquity organized by the Badalona Museum, held on October 19, 20, and 21, 2022.
Archaeological Sites
At VINSEUM, as an official archaeological materials repository designated by the Government of Catalonia, we manage deposits, research work, conservation, and contribute to the dissemination of the immense Catalan archaeological heritage.
Specifically, we preserve archaeological materials from more than 700 sites located mainly in Alt Penedès, but also in Garraf, Anoia, and Baix Penedès. These are materials from both old deposits and archaeological interventions carried out in the region.
Some archaeological objects found in the Penedès were among the first pieces to form part of the founding museum’s collections in the 1930s. Following this historical legacy, archaeology is one of the main axes of conservation, consultation, and research support of this institution.