Cork Museum

The Cork Museum of Palafrugell, Spain, became created in 1972 with a purpose to accumulate, preserve, interpret and fee the historical past around the cork enterprise in Catalonia. The cork industry has been motivated the panorama, the existence and the identification of this Catalan region. The Cork Museum is part of the Costa Brava Museum Network and the Network of Local Museums of Catalonia inside the demarcation of Girona. The museum is located in a modernist manufacturing unit round a small cork woodland. The exhibition includes an audiovisual, a journey from the wooded area to work at the manufacturing unit to reap plugs, discs, paper and agglomerate, a space to test and a area for participation.

The origins of the Cork Museum must be related to the discern of the archaeologist Miquel Oliva and the neighborhood researchers Joan Badia and Albert Recasens, who based the Palafrugell Museum in 1972. At the beginning of the 1980s the group became divided to create the modern-day Palafrugell archive, starting a exchange to offer the museum with a monographic specialization that might respond to the hobby on the cork enterprise. The Museum is split into three exclusive spaces in the vintage factory of Can Mario. Two of them are historical past buildings diagnosed as Be Cultural d'Interes Local - BCIL, meaning a cultural historical past of nearby hobby: the commercial buildings and Cal Ganxo.