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El Prat Museum

El Prat Museum

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The El Prat Museum, in El Prat de Llobregat (Baix Llobregat), Catalonia, was created in 1962 as part of an initiative of the town council to recover the town’s historic and natural heritage.[1] It is located in Balcells Tower, a building from the mid-19th century that was used for farming and as a summer residence, and is part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network. In the next few years the El Prat Museum will relocate to a new building currently under construction.

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The museum collection is divided into three large blocks: a vast collection of material related to El Prat’s agricultural and industrial past; an ornithological collection, representing the rich fauna of the Llobregat Delta; and a contemporary art collection that currently includes 300 works of art.[2] The central theme of the permanent exhibition, remodelled in 1996, is the process behind the formation and transformation of the Llobregat Delta.[1]

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  1. [1]
    Guia de la Xarxa de Museus Locals (in Catalan). Enciclopèdia Catalana Revistes i Col•leccionables / Oficina de Patrimoni Cultural, Diputació de Barcelona. 2002. pp. 58–59.
  2. [2]
    "Patrimoni Cultural del Prat: la col·lecció". patrimonicultural.elprat.cat. Archived from the original on 7 April 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
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