Garrotxa Museum opening hours (permanent exhibition)
Weekdays: from 10 am to 1 pm and from 3 pm to 6 pm.
Saturdays: from 11 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 7 pm
Sundays and holidays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Closed Monday
First Sunday of the month free admission
Opening hours for temporary exhibition halls:
Weekdays: from 10 am to 1 pm and from 5 pm to 8 pm.
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: from 11 am to 2 pm and from 5 pm to 8 pm
Closed Monday
Visit the website of the Olot Museums for more information on current temporary exhibitions.
The Garrotxa Museum is located in the center of Olot, organized around a large central courtyard, in the historic Hospice building, an 18th-century construction by Ventura Rodríguez.
The Museum has 3 temporary exhibition rooms (Open Room, Open Room 2 and Room 15), located on the ground floor and first floor of the building, are dedicated to the programming of exhibitions and activities related to the discourse and collection of the Olot Museums.
The central axis of the Museum’s collection is the Olot Landscape School, a landscape movement promoted especially by the brothers Joaquim and Marian Vayreda and by Josep Berga i Boix from the second half of the 19th century that became a reference throughout Catalonia and attracted and significantly influenced several generations of painters. The Olot School is not a pictorial style but a way of understanding and representing art through the representation of the landscape based on a particular freedom of style. In this context, and within a very broad representation, the Museum also hosts works by foreign authors such as Enric Galwey, Joan Llimona, Joan Brull or Ramon Casas.
The Museu de la Garrotxa also houses one of the best and most representative collections of Catalan painting and sculpture, with works by artists such as Joan Carles Panyó, Josep Berga i Boada, Francesc Vayreda, Ramon Amadeu, Miquel Blay, Josep Clarà or Leonci Quera, among many others, as well as a magnificent collection of modernist posters.
Following the renovation works at the Museu de la Garrotxa, which were inaugurated in April 2017, different proposals for children’s activities at the Museum aimed at families have been developed, consisting of:
– 5 fixed children’s activities, in 5 different rooms of the Museum: a light table to play with colors and shapes, a puzzle with sculptures by Miquel Blay, an observation game to find the girls hidden in one of the Cigarrillos Paris posters, a toca toca with Clarà and a game of constructing sculptures in the style of Leonci Quera. While touring the Museum, visitors find these activities to do freely.
– A children’s activity booklet that can be requested for free at the Museum reception with activities such as word searches, finding the differences or solving questions as you visit the Museum rooms. This booklet is free and can also be done as a free activity. It is worth noting that it is available in Catalan, Spanish, French and English.
The children’s notebook is accompanied by a notebook for parents with the solutions to the games and other activity suggestions to do with the children during the visit.
The Museum also hosts free temporary exhibitions in the Open Room, Open Room 2 and Room 15.
Accessible facilities. It has an audio description for people with visual impairments of the painting La Càrrega by Ramon Casas.
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