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31-474: The building was built between 1882 and 1884, it is from the architect Jeroni Granell i Mundet and it is located in the centre of Vilanova i la Geltrú, surrounded by the railway station, the superior engineering technical college of Vilanova i la Geltrú of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the library of this college. It was specifically conceived as a library and museum , which

62-580: A Mozarabic mortar from the 12th century. In December 2010 the Children's Corner was inaugurated. It is a new permanent space in the museum addressed to children, here they can draw and express in an artistic level. The museum also has a multisensorial module called "Tactile Look", a tactile interpretation space addressed to everybody but especially adapted and designed for those visitors that have visual difficulties, blindness or to disabled people. The Victor Balaguer Library Museum's bulletin (ISSN 0212-6168)

93-632: Is a member of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network, which allows for student exchanges between leading European engineering schools. It is also a member of several university federations, including the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research ( CESAER ) and UNITECH. UPC is also a parent institution of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). The university

124-931: Is an annual informative publication edited by the Library Museum Víctor Balaguer's Friends' Association. It collects information related with the bibliographic and artistic collection from Balaguer's Institution. It talks about the library's search and the activities carried out during the previous year at the Institution. It is available on the website raco.cat. 41°13′28″N 1°43′33″E  /  41.22444°N 1.72583°E  / 41.22444; 1.72583 Polytechnic University of Catalonia The Technical University of Catalonia ( Catalan : Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , pronounced [uniβəɾsiˈtat puliˈtɛŋnikə ðə kətəˈluɲə] , Spanish: Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña ; UPC ), currently referred to as BarcelonaTech ,

155-508: Is made of three big donations from Eduard Toda, Francesc Abellá and Juan Mencarini. All of them had a good relationship with Víctor Balaguer. This collection stresses the numismatic collection donated by Juan Mencarini. It is made up of his direct purchase in China and they are represented almost all de dynasties of the Chinese imperial past. It was donated in 1888. The archaeological collection

186-446: Is made of two big blocks: the foundational donations coming from different parts of the world; and the ones coming from local excavations especially from Garraf , Alt Penedès and Baix Penedès . The main sites represented are Darró, Solicrup, Masia Nova, Cova Verda and Cova de Can Sadurní. In the foundational donations block there are two groups: 1) donations when Víctor Balaguer was alive, 2) donations after his death until 1939. In

217-598: Is one of the top public universities in Barcelona, Spain. It is ranked #354 in QS World University Rankings 2024.UPC is consistently ranked as one of the leading European universities in the technology and engineering fields. U.S. News & World Report , for instance, ranks it as the world's 36th for Computer Science and 60th for Engineering. The QS World University Rankings also place the UPC among

248-408: Is presented bi-annually. Previous winners include: 41°23′22″N 2°06′57″E  /  41.38944°N 2.11583°E  / 41.38944; 2.11583 Pinacotheca A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from Ancient Greek : πινακοθήκη , romanized :  pinakothēkē = πίναξ , pinax , '(painted) board, tablet' + θήκη , thēkē , 'box, chest')

279-527: Is the largest polytechnic university in Catalonia , Spain. UPC's objectives are based on internationalization , as it is one of Europe's technical universities with the most international PhD students and the university with the largest share of international master's degree students. UPC is a university aiming at achieving the highest degree of engineering/technical excellence and has bilateral agreements with several top-ranked European universities. UPC

310-966: The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan (more often "the Brera" informally), the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli built on the roof of the former Lingotto Fiat factory in Turin, Italy, with others in Bologna and Siena . In Brazil, there is the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo . In Paris, the Pinacothèque de Paris . In Munich the three main galleries are called the Alte Pinakothek ( old masters ), Neue Pinakothek (19th century) and Pinakothek der Moderne . The Pinacotheca, Melbourne ,

341-415: The 19th century that until 1996 was shown at Castell de la Geltrú . In the arts gallery hall there is one of the best Catalan painting collections of the 19th century, with works from Santiago Rusiñol , Ramon Casas i Carbó , Joaquim Vayreda , Ramon Martí Alsina , Pau Carbonell and Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer among others. It basically shows the founder's original collection and paintings donated by

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372-697: The 19th century when sailors and dealers, known as indianos , came back home bringing curiosities from the Americas . The collection is made up of objects from daily life, war and religious coming from international expositions such as the Anthropological Sciences Contest of Paris in 1878 or the Philippine General Exposition of the Palacio de Cristal del Retiro of Madrid in 1887. The Oriental collection

403-507: The 19th century. On top of the main entrance it can be read the headword Surge et Ambula (stand up and walk in Latin). It is also relevant the 19th century garden that surrounds the building. Here we can find the so-called Santa Teresa House, the place where Víctor Balaguer lived during his stays in Vilanova. Over the years the building has undergone several alterations and changes, but in

434-490: The 19th century. Since the year of its foundation, the Museo del Prado has deposited several works that are changed periodically. This deposit is often made up of Castilian, Andalusian and Valencian paintings from between the 16th and the 18th century, there are works from well-known artists such as El Greco , Francisco Goya or Jusepe de Ribera among others. The museum also preserves the municipal Catalan painting collection of

465-618: The Flemish and the Italian. The paintings are distributed in four big thematic areas: religious painting, portrait, mythology and nature, including still life. At the second floor halls there are paintings and sculptures of the main artists of the first half of the 20th century such as Santiago Rusiñol , Ramon Casas i Carbó , Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa , Joaquim Mir , Isidre Nonell , Francesc Domingo or Xavier Nogués among others. Most of these paintings are small and they were donated to

496-642: The Institution in 1956. The year gives the name to the whole collection as Legate of the 56. Related with the local history there is a hall with paintings of the old Cafè Foment and a little space with works from the Vilanova School. At this floor there is also a contemporary arts collection from the 1950s and '60s, with paintings from Albert Ràfols Casamada , Hernández Pijuan , Joan-Josep Tharrats , Josep Guinovart i Bertran , Antonio Saura ... and sculptures from Àngel Ferrant and Andreu Alfaro among others. The majority of this collection works come from

527-408: The collection is divided into several subcollections because of Balaguer's multidisciplinary interest. Although the majority of the collection was given by Balaguer, the museum has incorporated and enriched his collections through the years with several donations and acquisitions. As of 2023, the museum's artistic holdings consist of 10,500 different objects, with an emphasis on painting and sculpture of

558-657: The excavations block there are 3 groups: 1) foundational excavations until 1939, 2) excavations carried out by the Studies Centre of the Library Víctor Balaguer (1951-1982) and 3) excavations deposited at the Museum Balaguer until now. This collection is made up of other smaller collections (glass, ceramics and metal) that give a full image of Víctor Balaguer's collecting passion. Little but splendid samples that have exceptional objects such as

589-549: The first Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art founded in 1963 so as to prevent the dispersion of this important collection, considered as the most complete informalist arts collection in Catalonia. There is a temporary show hall too. There is an Egyptian hall where there can be found authentic objects from the Ancient Egypt . It stresses for its singularity the little mummy of a five years old kid called Nesi, one of

620-633: The five unique mummies that are nowadays preserved in Catalan museums. The museum's Egyptian collection was the first one in Catalonia and was donated in 1886 by Eduard Toda i Güell a diplomatic figure, writer and a close collaborator with Víctor Balaguer in the Renaixença movement. Some of the pieces of the collection come from Sennedjem's tomb in Deir el-Medina (west Thebes) where Eduard Toda collaborated. The pre-Columbian collection groups objects from

651-419: The last one they choose recovering the original style designed by Granell and therefore recovering the natural light inside the halls. It was conceived to make known, through objects and documents of all kinds, the entirety of the knowledge. His founder contributed with books, magazines and other documents. The founder's intention was to open it to any citizen "without any kind of economic or social exclusion" it

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682-521: The most significant zones of Mesoamerica especially from the Mexican plateau, Central America and South America . Most of the pieces of the collection were donated by diplomatic figures and distinguished personalities who travelled to the zone and sometimes took part of archaeological excavations. One of the people who contributed to enlarge the collection was Wilson's Baroness Emilia Serrano (1834-1922). The pre Columbian objects in Catalonia appeared in

713-772: The own artists. The works are shown in chronological order so as to evoke Roma's school about Catalan art in the 19th century. In the hall there also is the Monteleon's park defense from Joaquín Sorolla , known popularly as the Second of May Prado's property. In the Prado hall there is an important collection of baroque painting coming from the Museo del Prado . There are works such as "The Holy Family" from El Greco and other paintings from Luca Giordano , Bartolomé Esteban Murillo , Peter Paul Rubens , Jusepe de Ribera , etc. Castilian and Andalusian schools are more represented here than

744-594: The paintings were easel pictures. The Romans adopted the term for the room in a private house containing pictures, statues, and other works of art. In the modern world the word is often used as a name for a public art gallery concentrating on paintings, mostly in Italy (as "Pinacoteca"), such as the Pinacoteca Vaticana of the Vatican Museums (which is usually meant when the plain word is used),

775-414: The richest bibliographic collections of the 19th century in Catalonia . It also has documents, personal or artistic archives from personalities such as Enric Cristòfor Ricart , Joan Alemany i Moya and Eduard Toldrà , as well as the personal bibliographic found of Joan Rius Vila , José Cruset and the gastronomic figure J.E.Roig Santacana among others. As the ancient collectors of the 19th century,

806-460: The world's 50 best universities in disciplines such as Architecture, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Instruments Science and Technology and Remote Sensing. Affiliated Schools The UPC has a number of research centres. From 1991–2010, the Board of Trustees at the UPC organized and awarded an annual Science Fiction Award. Currently the award

837-514: Was a gallery for avant-garde art from 1967 to 2002. At Hallbergmoos , near Munich Airport, there was the Pinakothek Hallbergmoos (20th and 21st century) between 2010 and 2014. This article related to a type of room in a building is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to an art display, art museum or gallery is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about

868-531: Was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or ancient Rome . The name is specifically used for the building containing pictures which formed the left wing of the Propylaea on the Acropolis at Athens, Greece. Though Pausanias speaks of the pictures "which time had not effaced", which seems to point to fresco painting , the fact that there is no trace of preparation for stucco on the walls implies that

899-729: Was founded in March 1971 as the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona through the merger of engineering and architecture schools founded in the 19th century. As of 2007 it has 25 schools in Catalonia located in the cities of Barcelona , Castelldefels , Manresa , Sant Cugat del Vallès , Terrassa , Igualada , Vilanova i la Geltrú and Mataró . As of the academic year 2017–18, the UPC has over 30,000 students and over 3,000 teaching and research staff, 65 undergraduate programs, 73 graduate programs and 49 doctorate programs. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)

930-690: Was the precedent of Catalan public libraries. The collection's classification and layout are the result of research by the librarian and printer Joan Oliva i Milà , who studied other European libraries so as to see which the best organization for the new centre was. In that moment, it stressed a big table where the readers had at his disposal journals and magazines from different places that allowed them always being informed. Nowadays, there are 50.000 books and almost 2.000 daily publications from between 18th and 19th century. Moreover, there also are around 50.000 letters and several literary and political manuscripts from Víctor Balaguer. All of this turns it into one of

961-473: Was unusual at that time. The building is temple -shaped, and it has neo-Egyptian and neo-Greek ornamental elements, distinctive details of public architecture in Catalonia at the end of the 19th century, just before the Modernisme arrived. On the facade of the building we can find the sculptures of the archbishop Francesc Armanyà and the poet Manuel de Cabanyes , who were relevant figures of Vilanova at

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