Museu Etnogràfic de Ripoll Ripoll

In 1929, the Ripoll Folk Museum Archive was founded, which was installed in the attic of the old church of Sant Pere and was the first in Catalonia dedicated to ethnography. For seventy years and without interruption, it collected, preserved, studied and disseminated the heritage of our region.

The result is the Ripoll Ethnographic Museum, which, after ten years of re-adaptation, has reopened its doors to continue preserving and enriching its collection and to once again display this legacy, which helps us to understand a society based on a tangible and intangible heritage, of which the most notable collections are those related to shepherds, peasants, trades, popular religion, the Catalan forge and wrought iron, and portable firearms from Ripoll.

The new headquarters, opened in March 2011, invites visitors to take a tour – interesting for both adults and children – that allows them to discover the recent past and the identity of a territory and also to recognise a way of living and feeling.

Through the Ethnographic Museum of Ripoll you can also discover two other spaces, the Scriptorium exhibition and the Farga Palau de Ripoll:

Scriptorium

The writing desk of Santa María de Ripoll left an old legacy of manuscripts from the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries, some of the most important in Europe at a paleographic, textual and artistic level.

The Ripoll Scriptorium is a permanent exhibition which, in an interactive and educational way, offers the opportunity to learn about the cultural past of the town and the importance that the Monastery of Santa María de Ripoll had throughout the 10th and 12th centuries in the production and copying of manuscripts, which became the most important in Europe.

Visitors, whether adults or children, will learn how parchment is made, how a goose quill is made to write, how a medieval codex was bound together, and most importantly, once the visit is over, they will be able to become a copyist monk themselves, putting into practice what they have learned in the exhibition.

Palau Forge

Enter an authentic forge workshop that closed its doors permanently in 1978. You can see two hammers, the horns (which characterise the Catalan forge), the water wheel... and learn about the process by which ore is converted into iron suitable for later work.

La Farga Palau is integrated into the Territorial System of the Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (MNACTEC).

Ripoll Air Raid Shelter

The visit to the "Air raid shelter. Heritage and Historical Memory" allows you to recover a part of the historical memory of the town, and consists of a tour of the town centre to remember the Civil War and ends inside the shelter, where those fateful days of late January and early February 1939 could be relived, when Ripoll experienced four bombings.

Services

• Educational service*.
• Guided tours and workshops.
• Investigation*.
• Restoration and disinfestation*.

*All services mentioned are by appointment only.

Proposals for schools

The Ripoll Ethnographic Museum also aims to reach out to children and schools, to show them the recent past, how people lived a hundred years ago, what customs they had, what toys they played with... All of this is conveyed through guided tours adapted to all types of public and with educational workshops, in which you can put into practice what you have seen during the visit.

In addition, there is also the possibility of discovering the Scriptorium and the Farga Palau de Ripoll, two facilities managed by the Museum itself.

Thus, an educational service is available with different activity proposals that adapt to each school curriculum.

For school and group visits, it is necessary to arrange a visit in advance by calling 972 70 31 44 or sending an email to museuetnografic@ajripoll.cat.

Schedules

• Tuesday to Saturday: From 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
• Sundays and holidays: From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

July, August and Easter

• Tuesday to Saturday: From 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• Sundays and holidays: From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Closed

Mondays, January 1 and 6, and December 25 and 26.