Igualada Leather Museum

In the corresponding videos, it presents five interactive modules illustrating some of the properties of the leather: touch, sound, durability, impermeability and the drill.

The "Cal Granotes" 18th century tannery building was restored, and now displays the same tanning processes which were used in the past.

It could also be used for clothing: leather horse harness for animals and horse-drawn carriages; backs and seats of chairs, and some time later for manufacturing belts for steam driven factories.

In the early 18th century, the tanning workers from Igualada decided to leave the enclosure of the medieval walls and established new industries along a water pipe or irrigation ditch named "El Rec", already mentioned in 12th century documents and previously used by mills.

This exhibition opened in 1991 at the Cal Boyer building, and provides an overview of various aspects of water linked to the society.