Vallhonrat Ethnographic Museum

Conferences and Temporary Exhibitions

Conferences and temporary exhibitions open to the public that offer new perspectives on culture, history and heritage. Proposals that combine dissemination and experience to bring knowledge closer in an accessible and enriching way.

Architecture in public. The hidden gaze.

The University Extension classroom has organized this conference for Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 6:00 pm, by Fransesc Camps Palou, architect – urban planner at the UPC Barcelona Tech and coordinator of the Culture Area of ​​the College of Architects of Catalonia. The activity of architects has always been understood as the task of constructing buildings, planning cities and defining public spaces, although, on many occasions, the commitment of their work goes much further. Location: Auditorium Vallhonrat Plaça Montserrat Roig, s/n Rubí. Free.

Presentation of the Bulletin by GCMR

Thursday 3 July 2025 the Vallhonrat auditorium will host, as usual, the presentation of Bulletin nº 90 organized by the Rubí Museum Collaborators Group (GCMR) where Josep Milà Albà will talk about the transition of Rubí from village to city. Lluís Garcia Majó will mention the Can Balasch farmhouse, Ernesto Asensio Sosa will present a 3D digitization project of the Rubí museum collection, a new way to enjoy the museum. Mr. Guifré Lloses Fontich and Josep Maria Lloses Huguet will talk about Catalan migrations to Rubí in the 1936 census and will monitor and contextualize the migratory phenomenon between 1889 and 1936. Finally, Pere Bel Cano will talk about Ramón Ratés and the Font del Bullidor, the story of an unknown prominent figure in Rubí. The event is open to anyone who is interested. Entrance Plaça Montserrat Roig s/n Rubí.

Pons Cirac centennial inaugural event

The inaugural event organized by the Rubí University Extension Classroom will take place on Thursday, May 19 at 6 p.m., in the Vallhonrat auditorium (Pl. Montserrat Roig, s/n.) with the talk “The crystal that transforms into art” by Joan Serra and will be attended by Miquela Pons, daughter of the artist. The new Pons Cirac room will then be inaugurated, presenting the centenary logo created by Ivana Alonso, a student of EdRa and converted into a sculpture by the artist Rafa Gascón; you can also visit the model of the garden designed by the students of the EdRa design cycle where colors, textures and light are prominent elements. The event will end with a dance and singing of jotes by the Aragonese Center of Rubí.

1st TBO Exhibition

Original Drawings by TBO (1917-1960). This exhibition was inaugurated in November 2003, at the Castell-Ecomuseu Urbà de Rubí, with the presence of the mayor, Mrs. Carme García, and Moisés Rodríguez, Councilor for Culture. The curator of the exhibition was Lluís Giralt.

The great inventions of TBO.DO 1922-61

From November 29, 2007 to January 31, 2008, the exhibition The Great Inventions of TBO. Original Drawings (1922-1961) was presented at the Castell-Ecomuseu Urbà de Rubí. As an exceptional element, you will find, in addition to the drawings, a real TBO Invention, made especially for this exhibition, with all the details and ingenuity of those that were conceived in those years.

The exhibition held at the Castell-Ecomuseu Urbà, where a round table took place with the participation of figures linked to the world of illustration. The moderators were Pere Vallhonrat, director of the Vallhonrat Ethnographic Museum and Lluís Giralt, curator of the exhibition, and the illustrator Pilarín Bayés.

To document the exhibition, a limited edition, numbered catalogue was published of the pieces exhibited and many others, with a very important and previously unpublished study on the subject, which experts will surely appreciate and use as a reference bibliography, and the rest of the public will be able to enjoy its extensive graphic work and curious documentation. This catalogue will be a gift for those attending the inauguration.