Can Mario Museum

Can Mario Museum is the Fundació Vila Casas Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Palafrugell[1] (Costa Brava).

It has around 220 works on show dating from the 1960s to the present day by a wide range of artists born or living in Catalonia.

Today it is a place for contemplating art situated in the Plaça de Can Mario, where we can also find a modernista water tower[7] and the Cork Museum.

[8][9][10]Since April 2011, 33 sculptures[11][12] by artists from the Empordà region of Catalonia have been placed in the Gardens of Can Mario, as permanent, open air exhibits.

In October of the same year the Empordà Gallery[13] was opened in the Museum, for holding temporary exhibitions of artists from the region.