The things that were Temporary exhibition

Elionor, one of the daughters of the venerable Sarriera lineage, married Arnau Benet de Cartellà at the end of the 15th century, joining their respective families' fortunes, names and legacies. She moved to her husband's town house and, wishing to assert her identity and origin, arranged for ceramic tiles bearing the Sarriera family's coat of arms to be placed in the finest rooms of the house. In the daily life of the Sarriera family, luxury crockery and fine objects were customary in the well-stocked kitchens and atop elegant tables. Some two hundred years earlier, on the other side of the street, in the 'Call', someone, possibly a woman, buried a large green ceramic jar full of earth and small bones in the foundations of a house in this ancient Jewish quarter with its wise inhabitants. Two houses that were home to many generations of Girona families facing each other on opposite sides of that street that housed a thousand lives and comprised an entire world: that of medieval Girona, overflowing with beauty and full of contradictions.

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In the 1980s, during renovation work on the building that would house the Girona History Museum, remains of crockery and pottery were found, as well as some tiles decorated with the Sarriera family's coat of arms. Researchers found out how they came to be there when they started documenting the presence of Elionor, daughter of the Sarriera family and wife of Arnau Benet de Cartellà, in the house on Carrer de la Força at the end of the 15th century. In 2013, during excavations in a house in the Jewish quarter, a large, green, ceramic jar full of earth, bones and perhaps ashes was uncovered. Today, it is one of the most interesting objects in the Museum of Jewish History's collection.