{"id":59988,"date":"2015-11-27T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T10:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=59988"},"modified":"2018-07-05T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:34:09","slug":"museum-of-ethnology-of-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/museum-of-ethnology-of-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Ethnology of Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

The history of Barcelona<\/strong>\u2019s Museum of Ethnology<\/strong> date back to the beginning of the twentieth century, when a group of intellectuals and academics in Catalan ethnography<\/strong> started\u00a0 feeling the need of a space where the cultural, social and economic realities of traditional societies could be interpreted and explained.<\/p>\n

\"museum<\/a>Finally, during the 1940\u2019s two museums were created: the Popular Arts and Industries museum (1942) and the Ethnologic and Colonial Museum (1949). The two museums converged in 1962, becoming only one museum, the Museum of Ethnology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The museum focuses mainly on Catalan Ethnology, but it does contain pieces from other areas and countries, which are currently displayed at the Museum of World Cultures<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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