Palau Solterra Museum

It opened in 2000, and nowadays it houses about three hundred contemporary photographs of the city, artists from various parts of the world, including Chema Madoz, Alberto García Álix, Toni Catany, Otto Lloyd, Xavier Miserachs, Ouka Lele and Frank Horvat, among many others.

[1] The Palau Solterra was declared an artistic historical monument in 1981 and tt opened in 2000, first with a painting fund and later (and up to now) with the photographic collection of the Foundation Vila Casas.

In 1503, a descendant of this family, Antic Sarriera and Margarit, married Anna Beneta de Gurb, from Sant Hilari Sacalm and Mrs. of the Solterra Museum, thus joining the patrimony.

During the Civil War (1936-1939) the palace was empty and uninhabited, although some rooms were used to carry out some activities such as the distribution of letters of rationing to the people of Torroella de Montgrí.

Finally, it was in 1999 when it became part of the Vila Casas Private Foundation to rehabilitate it and make it suitable for converting it into what is currently a contemporary photography museum.

In addition, it is also where the winners and selected of the Vila Casas Foundation photography contest summons to discover, project and promote artists.

Located in the old Can Framis factory complex, the museum displays more than 250 paintings from the sixties up to the present made by artists born or currently living in Catalonia.

In addition to the permanent collection which is divided in three floors, Can Framis Museum also has an area dedicated to temporary exhibitions named Espai Aø.

It is located in the old storerooms of the Modernist building Casa Antonia Puget, on Ausiàs Marc 22, and was declared a site of local cultural heritage by the Barcelona city council.

A space that holds temporary exhibitions by well-known artists whose work falls into one of the three disciplines of the collection: contemporary painting, photography or sculpture.