Arenys de Mar Museum ( ca, Museu d'Arenys de Mar) is a museum in

Arenys de Mar Arenys de Mar (, ''arenys'' being Catalan for "sands (of a seasonal creek)", and ''de mar'' for "by the sea" as opposed to Arenys de Munt, "sands up hill") is one of the main municipalities of the comarca of Maresme, Barcelona Province, Catalonia ...

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. It is made up of two different sections: the Marès Lace Museum and the Mollfulleda Mineralogy Museum, and it also conserves and exhibits the collection from the old Arenys de Mar Fidel Fita Municipal Museum.

Marès Lace Museum

The Marès Lace Museum ( ca, Museu Marès de la Punta) is located in a 17th-century building, the former Hospital de Sant Jaume, which was turned into a museum in 1983 to house the Frederic Marès

lace Lace is a delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open weblike pattern, made by machine or by hand. Generally, lace is divided into two main categories, needlelace and bobbin lace, although there are other types of lace, such as knitted o ...

collection. Currently it is a monographic museum, dedicated to lace making, which brings together different collections, such as those of Tórtola Valencia, Vives-Nadal and the Castells collection. One of the rooms in the Marès Lace Museum exhibits a representative sample from the old Fidel Fita Municipal Museum collection, which includes pieces of diverse origin from throughout the history of

. This space houses remains from the Torre dels Encantats Iberian settlement and a collection of nautical artefacts.

Mollfulleda Mineralogy Museum

This museum was founded on 9 October 1988 thanks to a donation by Joaquim Mollfulleda i Borrell, who bestowed his mineral collection on the town of

. It is located in a historic building where, in 1790, Josep Baralt founded the first

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school in Spain. The Mollfulleda Mineralogy Museum is

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in nature and houses a valuable collection of

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s from around the world, systematically classified.

References

External links

Official site

Circuits de Museus Tèxtils i de Moda de Catalunya
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