From 19 October 2024 to 12 January 2025 at the Museum of Cork of Catalonia in Palafrugell
A travelling exhibition which presents the close relationship between the origins of modern sport, and scientific, technological and industrial development. The displays present the early days of sport in Catalonia, from the last third of the 19th century up to the organisation of the People's Olympiad and the outbreak of the Civil War.
"Sport, industry and modernity" explains the social evolution of sport, a pursuit confined solely to the moneyed classes, which was then democratised to become a mass phenomenon; the progress of women in sporting pursuits; traditional sports, and the emergence of new sports engendered by scientific, technical and industrial advances.
The travelling exhibition illustrates its historiographical narrative with a Sima Violet motorcar (1925), a JFC motorbike (1924), a Villalbí motorbike (1904), a velocipede (last quarter of the 19th century), posters, books, trophies and a range of sporting paraphernalia.
The displays are divided into eight themed sections:
The exhibition could be visited at MNACTEC until December 2023 and has now become a travelling exhibition.
The exhibition could be visited at Can Marfà Gènere de Punt. Museum of Mataró from March 14 to June 2, 2024 and at Manresa Water and Textile Museum from 8 June to 8 September, 2024.
