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

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

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.

On last Monday February 3rd, the director from the MHG, Sílvia Planas, participated in the conference “From research to the museum: traces of life and recovered histories”, organized by the University of Girona and the Milá i Fontanals-CSIC Institution from Barcelona, with the archivist Anna Gironella. She talked about the role of women in the construction of the medieval Girona, from the analysis of historical documents that can provide an account of their action and participation in processes of transformation of the city in the fields of urbanism, socioeconomics, culture and religion.

The goal of the Museum is to weave new stories to explain the historic and social trajectory of the medieval Girona, with the historiographic conclusions and reflections derived from the historical analysis of these documents as both their centre and starting point. Thus, gender perspective will have a key relevance and will be defining in the elaboration of the new musicological narrative. The basis of all this will be, precisely, the revision and rereading of these documents, and of some objects and elements from the museum, as well as their reinterpretation from a point of view more focused on the sociological aspects and a vision of history from a gender perspective. With this, the Museum proposes a transference of knowledge that arises from the academic and scientific fields and that will become the basis of the discourses elaborated by the Museum in order to spread the history of Girona from new perspectives and methodologies.