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The City Hall of Girona shares part of the archive Rafael and María Santos Torroella online

19/08/25 The published resource is added to the documents in the Galeries Dalmau collection and includes the photographic collection, the correspondence catalogue and a third of the newspaper archive and the Santos Torroella library.

The History Museum of Girona hosts the presentation of the dossier “Women fighters. The role of women during Civil War' in the Magazine of Girona from July and August

18/07/25 The Deputation of Girona published the issue 351 (July/August 2025) of the Magazine of Girona. This number includes the dossier titled “Women fighters. The role of women during Civil War”, coordinated by Glòria Granell Nogué.

The Girona History Museum participates in 15h edition of Symphonic Festival

09/06/25 The cloister of the Girona History Museum will host musical performances by duets, quartets and guitar ensembles from the students of the Girona Municipal School of Music and the Tutti Music Classroom in La Bisbal d'Empordà.

The MHG spaces will host wine tastings as part of the celebration of the Tocs de Vi de l'Empordà exhibition

09/06/25 You can discover the wines of the Espelt de Vilajuïga and Vinyes dels Aspres de Cantallops wineries on Tuesday, June 10, on the terrace and in the air raid shelter of the Jardín de la Infància, respectively.

Spectacular growth in new visitors to the Museum during "Girona, Temps de Flors"

19/05/25 The Girona History Museum received a total of 38,112 visitors from May 10 to 18.

The exhibition 'Women botanical illustrator' highlights the role of women in the history of the scientific illustration

08/05/25 The History Museum of Girona will host the exhibition 'Women botanical illustrators' from May 10th to September 14th, 2025. It is a fascinating exhibition that displays the role of women in the history of botanical illustration from 17th century to the present day. The opening will be tomorrow, at 6 p.m., at the museum.

Torre Gironella will recover its medieval splendour thanks to an augmented reality project

06/05/25 Torre Gironella will recover its medieval splendour thanks to an innovative pilot project that binds heritage and technology through an immersive experience using augmented reality and 5G technology.

An exhibition to celebrate Sant Jordi at the Girona History Museum

22/04/25 With a small selection of works from the municipal collection.

Itineraries of historical memory are back this month!

15/04/25 With the “Route of the prisoners of the Torras-Hostench factory” on Saturday, April 26th, at 11 a.m.

Easter is a good time to visit the Girona History Museum

11/04/25 These days there will be special opening hours.

In memory of Joan Casanovas i Romaguera

06/02/25 In order to remember him in this fourth anniversary of his passing, the History Museum of Girona has arranged a small display of some of his works at the hall. You can visit it until the beginning of March.

Renovation of the signalling of the Network of Democratic Memory Sites in Girona

05/02/25 The action carried by the City Hall of Girona and the Democratic Memorial, with the coordination of the History Museum of Girona, consisted in the remodelling of the graphic elements of the sites of remembrance of the city, located at the Old Cemetery, the air-raid shelter at Jardí de la Infància and the old prison of the Seminary.

Conference 'From research to the museum: traces of life and recovered histories’

04/02/25 The Network of History Museums and Monuments of Catalonia collaborates with the University of Girona and the Milá Fontanals-CSIC Institution from Barcelona in order to work on the transfer of knowledge, from an academic and scientific scope to the Museum, as well as the improvement in the research, conservation and promotion of the historical and cultural patrimony.

Celebrating the School Day of Non-Violence and Peace

27/01/25 The History Museum of Girona wants to spread the values of democracy and peace, on the School Day of Non-Violence and Peace, with an activity on historical memory for the students of year 4 of the Institute Vicens Vives, from Girona. Thus, on January 30th, the school will participate in the route “Clandestine letters from a man sentenced to death” adapted to secondary education students. This is a tour to the post-war Girona and the setting of the victims of the Franco's repression.

Homage to the houses on the Onyar at Museu d'Història de Girona

21/01/25 The Museu d’Història de Girona is celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the restoration of the houses on the Onyar River by displaying the color chart made by the artist Enric Ansesa at its exhibition room. At the hall, the Museum is also displaying works from its collection depicting these houses before and after the artists Jaume Roca Delpech, Pia Crozet and Josep M. de Pont Pujades worked on their facades.

Girona commemorates the second millennia of the founding of the city with a program of activities around the motto “Girona, year 2100. Girona, 2100 years old”.

21/01/25 A debate with all the majors of Girona since its democratic restoration will raise the curtain on the city’s anniversary on January 25th. An exhibition at the Museu d’Història de Girona, a cycle of conferences, a citizen forum and a congress will complete a proposal with the goal to learn about the city’s origins in order to debate and rethink how the Girona of the next century should be.

Merry Christmas and Happy 2025

20/12/24 Special opening hours of the Girona History Museum.

The most significant part of the Fund Rafael and Maria Teresa Santos Torroella of the City Hall of Girona will be exhibited at the Patio Herreriano of Valladolid

08/11/24 The exhibition “Anudar el tiempo. El Fondo Rafael y Maria Teresa Santos a y sus ecos en la Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo” includes 135 art pieces and 200 documents related to the Fund Rafael and Maria Teresa Santos Torroella from Girona, starting tomorrow Saturday, November 9th 2024. and will be available until April 27th, 2025.

The Girona History Museum restores the figures from the old festive imagery of the city

06/11/24 their pieces and clothing. The work consisted in repainting, repairing and professionally cleaning their pieces and clothing c and was carried out by the artist and expert in imagery of Girona Josep Perpinyà and the dressmaker Núria Berengaret.