Maricel Museum

The Maricel Museum is a museum placed within the centre of Sitges reopened after a first-rate refurbishment in 2015. The Maricel Museum is a part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network. In 1969, the Barcelona Provincial Corporation bought the building of Maricel de Mar to residence the heterogeneous collection belonging to Doctor Jesus Perez-Rosales Manila, 1896-Barcelona,1989, a widely known gynaecologist and enthusiastic collector. A year later the Museu Maricel changed into inaugurated.

Made up of more than 3000 items of varying origin, the gathering consists of Romanesque work of art like the Christ Pantocrator from Santa Maria de Cap d'Aran, dated in the twelfth century, examples of Gothic portray on timber among them portions from the altarpiece of Sant Pere de Cubells, Renaissance carvings and altarpices, Modernista and Noucentista sculptures by way of Josep Llimona Distress, Enric Claraso head of Child Crying, Joan Rebull Rest, Dawn and Gypsy Child, Josep Clara, Josep Canas and Pablo Gargallo The Reaper, six allegorical canvas panels by Josep M. Sert on the First World War, at the side of several pictures and items of fixtures, valuable metallic, ceramics and porcelain.

Panel of the Nativity, from an altarpiece from the church of Sant Pere de Cubells, c. 1400Since 1995 the Museu Maricel has additionally housed the "Vila de Sitges" Collection of artwork, which occupies several rooms on the second ground. In them may be visible some fifty works by means of Sitges artists of the nineteenth and 20th centuries and by using others who had near links with the city in the course of the identical length.