Do you want to go up to the attic of the Museum? New presentation of the Sala de les diversions
Do you want to go up to the attic of the Museum? New presentation of the Sala de les diversions
On November 28, 2020, it opens again to the public Fun room , a reference space of the ancient world of leisure and fun in Barcelona , which can be visited in its current location since 1981. With this reopening, we are recovering and updating a museum space in the city; a heritage that will surely captivate the public of all ages and evoke the past through the emotions and curiosity that the objects on display arouse.
The Entertainment Room is the last of the Collector's Cabinet, the only one located on the third floor of the building and, therefore, the room with which the visitor ends his tour of the Museum. The title of the new presentation already gives us a glimpse of its situation, at the same time it transports us to that space in old houses and buildings where disused objects were often kept: 'Do you want to go up to the attic of the Museum?' Under this slogan, endearing, abandoned and forgotten objects and andromines that belonged to our ancestors now come to life through our current gaze and from a placement in appropriate scene.
The various interventions and improvements to the exhibition conditions that have been carried out in other rooms of the Collector's Cabinet have been carried out respecting the close link between the pieces and their exhibition framework, that is to say, between the content and the continent, which forms a very personal museography devised by Frederic Marès.
Starting from this premise, it is intended that the Sala de les diversions become part of the imagination of all those who come to visit the Museum, making the visit a unique and different experience that will last in the memory. The room's new museography, designed to enhance an emotional reading of the collections, will reach directly into the hearts of visitors and generate an impact on them based on the memories and feelings they evoke.
So, it invites you to rediscover them such unique collections that make up the Sala de les diversions and so intimately linked to the person who made them possible: Frederic Marès, sculptor and the greatest Catalan collector of the 20th century. And we cannot forget that the main intention on which this new presentation has been projected is to prevail and improve, as far as possible, Marès' original idea of conceiving a 'sentimental museum'.
Mechanical magic is the accompanying audiovisual piece on site the collection of automatons in the room and which allows you to see how they move and listen to their characteristic music.
On the other hand, The mechanic and the dancer , starring Numa Vilató and Valentine Villenet, uses the genre of pantomime to stage the story of an automaton dancer and her mechanic.