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The Maricel Museum is a museum located in front of the Maricel Palace, in the Old Town of Sitges, specifically in Fonollar, on the seafront. After spending four years closed for construction, it reopened on December 22, 2014.

In 1969 the Diputació de Barcelona bought the Maricel de Mar building to install Dr Jesús Pérez Rosales's art collection (Manila, 1896-Barcelona, ​​1989). Dr Perez Rosales was a well known gynecologist and philanthropist .A year later, the new Maricel Museum opened officially.

The collection consists of more than three thousand pieces from the most diverse sources. It includes Romanesque murals, such as the Pantocrator of Santa Maria de Cap d'Aran, dating from the 12th century; examples of Gothic painting on wood among them, two pieces from the altarpiece of Sant Pere de Cubells, made by Pere Serra. Renaissance carvings, altarpieces, modernist and noucentist sculptures by Josep Llimona (Desconsol/grief), Enric Clarasó (Bust of a crying child), Joan Rebull (Rest, Dawn or Gipsy girl), Josep Clarà, Josep Cañas or Pablo Gargallo (Harvester). We can also find the six murals by Josep M. Sert alleg World War I and numerous paintings, furniture, pieces of liturgical goldsmithing, ceramics and porcelain. Since 1995, the Maricel Museum has also housed the Art Collection of the town of Sitges, which occupies several rooms on the second floor. You can see about fifty works by artists from Sitges from the 19th and 20th centuries and others that were closely linked to the town in this same period. This art collection allows visitors to take a suggestive tour of the last two centuries of Catalan painting, from Joaquim Espalter (born in Sitges in 1809) to Pere Pruna (who spent many seasons here during the 1940s and 1950s).

The Luminist school from Sitges, which served as a link between Marià Fortuny and the modernists, is well represented, with pieces by Felip Masó (among them, the emblematic Procession of Sant Bartomeu), Joaquim de Miró (The collection de la malvasia), Josep Batlle i Amell,, Arcadi Mas i Fondevila (The Corpus Christi procession in Sitges), Joan Roig i Soler and Antoni Almirall.

There are also several works by Santiago Rusiñol, including Capvespre, painted in Biniaraix (Mallorca), and the portraits of Salvador Robert, Pere Forment and Lluís Magrans from Sitges.

Ramon Casas is the exceptional Portrait of Charles Deering, the person who promoted the construction of the Maricel ensemble at the beginning of the 20th century. The Maternity Hospital of Joaquim Sunyer in Sitges opens the room dedicated to Noucentisme, where you can also see paintings and drawings by Agustí Ferrer Pino, Josep Vidal and Josep M. LLopis de Casades, among others. The exhibition is completed with pieces by Artur Carbonell (Mourning girl), Guillem Bergnes (Roques de Sant Sebastià), Alfred Sisquella and the aforementioned Pere Pruna.

Attached to the Art Collection of the town of Sitges is the Emerencià Roig i Raventós Marine Collection (Sitges, 1881-Barcelona, ​​1935), donated by his brother to the Sitges City Council. Roig was an important specialist in maritime issues and author of books such as La pesca a Catalunya (1926), La marina catalana del vuit-cents (1929) and Sitges dels nostres avis (1934). The collection consists of a varied set of boat models and miniatures, drawings, engravings, maps, nautical instruments (sextants, compasses, etc.) and fishing moorings (handles, longlines, hooks, needles to repair nets, etc. .) which were formerly used by fishermen along the Catalan coast. This collection is not currently on display and will soon be reinstalled in another of the Sitges Museums.

Relevant works

 * Joaquim Sunyer - Maternitat
 * Santiago Rusiñol - Tirano, En Pere Cuca i Malavida
 * Pere Serra - Naixement de Jesús Càndid_Durán_Els_pintamones_1895_Oli_sobre_tela.jpg
 * Josep Llimona - Desconsol
 * Càndid Duran - Els pintamones