The History Museum of Girona opens an exhibition dedicated to four series of engravings by Francisco de Goya

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The exhibition, which is approached from the contemporaneity and is complemented by the intervention of multiple artists, can be visited until April 6, 2026 in the temporary exhibition hall. The public will be able to see, for the first time, Scene of the French War, a work from early 19th century by Juan Carlos Anglès and deeply connected to the history of the city

The History Museum of Girona introduces an exhibition devoted to the four great series of engravings by Francisco de Goya, created between 1797 and 1810: Desastres de la guerra, Caprichos, Tauromaquia and Proberbios o Disparates. The exhibition will be available until April 6 in in the temporary exhibition hall.

Under the title “Volaverunt. The engravings of Goya from contemporaneity”, this exhibition is the result of the collaboration between the History Museum of Girona and the Museum of Mataró, from where the engravings come from and where they were already exhibited in 2021. These engravings were stamped in the workshops of the National Chalcography of Madrid between 1937 and 1938. The exhibition arrives to Girona thanks to the work of the Network of History Museums and Monuments of Catalonia, of which the History Museum of Girona and the Museum of Mataró are members.

The exhibition opens tomorrow at 5.30 p.m., with the participation of the deputy mayor and alderman of Culture of the Girona City Hall, Quim Ayats i Batrina; the director of the History Museum of Girona, Sílvia Planas i Marcé; the director of the Museum of Mataró, Anna Capella, and the curator of the exhibition, Aina Mercader Sbert, among other figures and guest artist.

Several free activities such as lectures, guided visits and workshops for families have been planned around the exhibition and presentation of the unpublished painting Scene of the French war. The capacity is limited so it is recommended to book in advance on the website.