In 1929, the Folklore Museum Archive of Ripoll was founded, which was installed in the attic of the old church of Sant Pere and was the first in Catalonia dedicated to ethnography. Over the course of seventy years, he has collected, preserved, studied and disseminated the heritage of our region. The result is the Ethnographic Museum of Ripoll, which, after 10 years of rehabilitation, opens its doors again to continue preserving and enriching its collection and to show this legacy again, which helps us to understand a society from a material and immaterial marriage, of which we highlight the collections related to the shepherds, the peasantry, the trades, the popular religiosity, the Catalan forge and the wrought iron and the portable firearms of Ripolles. The new headquarters, inaugurated in March 2011, invites you to take a tour -interesting for young and old-, which allows you to discover the recent past and the identity of a territory and also recognize a way of living and feeling.
Visit the first ethnographic museum in Catalonia founded in 1929, in which you will take a trip to our recent past and get to know the traditions and popular culture of the Girona Pyrenees.
He enters an authentic workshop of a forge transformed into a copper forge, which closed its doors definitively in 1978. The visit allows us to observe two jacks, the horns (which characterize the Catalan forge), the hydraulic wheel. .. and know the process by which the ore becomes iron suitable for later processing.
The Scriptorium of Ripoll is a permanent exhibition, which in an interactive and didactic way, offers the possibility to know the cultural past of the population and the importance that the Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll had throughout the X-XII centuries in the production and copying of manuscripts, which became among the most important in Europe. The visitor, whether adult or small, will learn how to make a parchment, how to get a goose feather to write, how to bind a medieval codex, and most importantly, once the visit is over, you can make himself a copyist monk, putting into practice what he has learned in the exhibition.