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Because of the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica the Boys´Choir will sing Saturday, 3rd March, during the Mass at 11 am and the prayer Salve and Virolai at 12 o’clock.   The Choir will not be in Montserrat on Sunday 4th March.    

The Museum of Montserrat opens the autumn season with a retrospective dedicated to the sculptor Josep Salvadó Jassans (Alforja, 1938 - 2006) to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death. The exhibition, which pays homage to the person and the artist, is the fruit of the work of the historians Jorge Egea and Adrián Arnau as curators, with the support of the family Jassans, who has lent a great part of the works which are now shown. Entitled Imagined Greece, it consists of 50 works that illu...

The First Mystery of Glory of Montserrat’s Monumental Rosary, designed at the beginning of the 20th century by Antoni Gaudí, has finally recovered its initial design after the restoration works. The promoters of this work: Montserrat’s Abbey, Diputació de Tarragona (Council of Tarragona), the Direcció General del Patrimoni Cultural (General Management of the Cultural Heritage) and Institut Català del Sòl – INCASÒL (Catalan Institute of the Land – INCASÒL). Restoration works based on a project b...

Montserrat’s Museum has been awarded the ACCA Award to the Best Artistic Initiative 2012 for “its decided support to contemporary art”. The Art Critics’ ACCA Awards are given annually since 1982 by the general assembly of this association, from a free open debate on the exhibitions, initiatives and the most remarkable facts of the artistic season. The awards, of a honorary nature, consist on a certificate with the symbol that Joan Miró designed exclusively for this association. Father Josep de...

Montserrat’s Museum owns one of Ramon Casas’ most important collections in Catalonia, with almost thirty oils and drawings. Most of them are a donation to the monastery by Josep Sala Ardiz in 1980. Casas –like Santiago Rusiñol- is the most representative artist of Catalan Modernisme. The airs they breathed in Paris marked a major turnover in Catalan art at the end of the 19th century. The commemoration of the 150 years of the artist’s birth is a good opportunity...

Enkaoua, settled in Barcelona since 2004, presents a compendium of the decade lived in Catalonia, after spending 20 years in Israel. The fifty works on exhibit show a variety of motives and pretexts, mainly portraits, still natures and landscapes. Enkaoua obtains a great expressive efficiency of his works, up to the point that we can affirm that the artist is revitalising these genres. Some portraits of laying bodies unfold before us like an authentic landscape, and some still natures almost...