Maricel Museum

The Maricel Museum is a museum located in the centre of Sitges; reopened after a major refurbishment in 2015.The Maricel Museum is part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network.ContentIn 1969, the Barcelona Provincial Corporation bought the building of Maricel de Mar to house the heterogeneous collection belonging to Doctor Jesús Pérez-Rosales, a well known gynaecologist and enthusiastic collector. A year later the Museu Maricel was inaugurated.Made up of more than 3 000 items of varying origin, the collection includes Romanesque murals, examples of Gothic painting on wood, Renaissance carvings and altarpices, Modernista and Noucentista sculptures by Josep Llimona, Enric Clarasó head of Child Crying, Joan Rebull, Josep Clarà, Josep Cañas and Pablo Gargallo, six allegorical canvas panels by Josep M. Sert on the First World War, along with numerous pictures and items of furniture, precious metal, ceramics and porcelain.Since 1995 the Museu Maricel has also housed the "Vila de Sitges" Collection of art, which occupies several rooms on the second floor. In them can be seen some fifty works by Sitges artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and by others who had close links with the town during the same period.