Sitges Cau Ferrat house and Maricel Art Gallery

About Sitges Cau Ferrat house and Maricel Art Museum

Cau Ferrat Museum and Maricel Museum are co-joined museums that form part of the Museums of Sitges and are part of the Art Museum of Catalonia collection. Sitges was an important town at the turn of the 19th Century for artists musicians and writers.

About Cau Ferrat Museum

The building dates from 1893 is the former home of artist and writer Santiago Rusiñol Prats (1861-1931), one of the most important figures of the Catalan Modernist movement. The Cau Ferrat Museum is the former home and workshop of Santiago Rusiñol, becoming a museum in 1933.

Cau Ferrat consists of a ground floor living quarters consisting of a kitchen, study, bedroom, reception and hallway. The staircase goes up to the first floor main hall which is a huge open space with high vaulted ceiling supported by wooden beams. It is reminiscent of a church or large council meeting room and contains a vast collection of Art. Between 2010 and 2014 the building and museum space was restored.

The Museum contains collections of art gathered by the artist such as paintings, forged metal, ceramics, glass, sculptures, furniture and modern art. The museum also contains works by:

• Santiago Rusiñol
• Ramón Casas y Carbó: (1866 - 1932) painter
• Pablo Ruiz Picasso: more details in the Picasso Museum Barcelona page.
• Ramon Pichot Gironès: (1871 - 1925) impressionist Artist and early mentor of Salvador Dalí
• Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta: (1870 - 1945) Spanish painter from the basque region
• Darío de Regoyos y Valdés: (1857 - 1913) impresionist painter
• William Degouve de Nuncques: (1867 - 1935) Belgium painter that resided in Catalonia for a brief period
• Manuel Martinez Hugué: (1872 - 1945) sculptor of the noucentisme movement
• Enric Clarasó i Daudí: (1857 - 1841) modernist sculptor
• Pablo Emilio Gargallo Catalán (Pau Gargallo): (1881 - 1831) modernist painter sculptor

About Maricel Museum

The Maricel Museum is a broad collection of art dating from the tenth century to realism and figuration during the first half of the twentieth century.

• Dr Jesús Pérez-Rosales: was a wealthy doctor and art collector who dontated his art collection to the Maricel Museum.

Acquisitions by the Sitges Heritage Association since 2012

• Miquel Utrillo i Morlius: Painter and Engineer/architect who built Maricel Palace for American Millionaire and art collector Chales Deering. Miquel Utrillo would later build the Poble Espanyol for the 1929 workd Exhibition.
• Arcadi Mas i Fondevila: (1852 - 1931) painter and draftsman, founder of the Illuminist School of Sitges (landscape paintings)
• Artur Carbonell i Carbonell: (1906 - 1973) surealist painter and theatre artistic director
• Agustí Ferrer and Pino: (1884 - 1960) painter

The Maricel Museum's own collection was complemented with several works from loans and deposits from art collections of the Government of Catalonia, the Museum of the Provincial Government of Barcelona and the Montserrat Museum, primarily with artists from "Modernisme" and "Noucentisme" linked to Sitges such as:

• Joaquím Sunyer: (1874 - 1956) painter in the style of novecentista
• Lola Anglada i Sarriera: writer, comic artist and painter
• Alfred Sisquella and Oriol: painter of still lifes, landscapes and interior scenes
• Furniture from Can Falç:. Can Falç is the stately family home for 14 generations of one of the Sitges's most powerful families. It is currently being transformed into a history museum and cultural center following the death of the last in the line.

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Visiting Sitges Cau Ferrat house and Maricel Art Museum

The Cau Ferrat Museum and Maricel Museum can be visited as one attraction because both buildings are interlinked with a circular route that starts on the ground floor of Cau Ferrat (the blue rooms) before proceeding upstairs to the collections room with the vaulted ceiling. From here the route crosses into Casa Rocamora with the fireplace surrounded by tiled benches then into the second floor of the Maricel Museum. last on the tour route is the first floor of the Maricel Museum and the noucentista sculptures area with sea views.

The museums of Sitges society offers a range of tours for groups and walks around the modernist and artistic history of Sitges. For more information and bookings you can contact the museum via the details on the webpage.

I visited using an individual combined ticket for the Cau Ferrat Museum and Maricel Museum which cost 10 euros for an adult. Generally you do not need to purchase a ticket in advance but it may be advisable in the summer.

Top tip: There is an android app and apple app which can be found searching for Museos de Sitges. The app works as the audio guide for the museum and gives interesting history of the artefacts and museum space. Take headphones and connect to the free wifi in the museum to use the app.

Cau Ferrat Museum & Maricel Museum Opening Hours

• November, December January & February - Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00h to 17:00h
• March, April, May, June & October - Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00h to 19:00h
• July, August & September - Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00h to 20:00h
• Closed: Monday's

Note: Maricel Museum should not be confused with the Maricel Palace. This is the white building on the other side of Calle de Fonollar and has limited visiting hours on a Sunday.

Getting to Sitges Cau Ferrat house and Maricel Art Museum

Address: Carrer de Fonollar, Sitges. 08870

The museums are located in the historic centre of Sitges behind the church built directly on a small headland. Walking from Sitges train station through the historic town centre to the museum takes about 10 minutes.

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