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Every February, the Vallhonrat Museum fills with mystery, excitement, and fun through the game “In Search of the Treasure”—a special activity that invites participants to uncover secrets in a unique way.

Using clues, riddles, and small challenges, participants must explore the galleries, observe closely, and put their wits to the test to locate the hidden treasure. It is an experience that blends culture, learning, and play, transforming a museum visit into a true adventure.

This activity was created with the goal of becoming a highly anticipated event for both children and adults, offering a fresh way to explore the museum, share moments with family or friends, and enjoy a one-of-a-kind experience.

The Foundation of the Vallhonrat Ethnographic Museum in Rubí, coinciding with its 70th anniversary, creates in 2024, the Pere Vallhonrat Story Contest, in honor of the director of this local museum, with the main objective of recovering and disseminating, from a childish and original point of view, part of the history of some of the objects and pieces that are exhibited, in any of its areas.

The aim is to encourage students studying 4th grade of primary school in the city’s educational centers to show interest in delving deeper into informational, documentary, photographic and/or oral source research in the educational and cultural field.

The jury will award the most complete story, the one that mentions the museum, the most original imagination and ending. They will take into account the story and plot, the language and vocabulary, the ability to present, the careful presentation, the spelling mistakes, the syntax when writing the story, among other criteria.

The Vallhonrat Museum Foundation has committed to innovating and expanding the history of Rubin with a collection of children’s stories, which on this occasion, deal with the museum space itself, local facts and traditions with the aim that children identify and learn about part of the history and adults enjoy sharing moments of reading, activities and memories, creating a calm and familiar intergenerational space.

With a print run of 500 copies, the collection began in early 2022 with the story Come to the Museum , which presents each of the museum’s rooms in a friendly way.

This same year, and to commemorate the tragic flood, the story 1962, la riérada that was presented at the end of the year, explains this event that took place in the municipality of Rubin and that so many families experienced and suffered.

In subsequent editions, the big boot has been published for the importance of wine in Rubí, The colors of the garden to raise awareness among children about caring for nature and our environment, Grandpa Quim, who is already our grandparents who have known the museum’s objects firsthand, The girl who lives in the museum as recognition of the exclusive jobs that women had in the past, Miquel Vallhonrat collector and many more stories that we will gradually publish.

As has always been the case, the stories are distributed free of charge at the municipal library, day care centers and senior citizens’ residences, all educational lines of Rubí schools and to children between 4 and 10 years old, who stop by Finques Vallhonrat to pick them up, during office hours, while supplies last.

THE VALLHONRAT MUSEUM FOUNDATION AND EDRA, COMMEMORATE THE CENTENARY OF PONS CIRAC

This is the second time that the EdRa School of Art and Design and the Vallhonrat Museum Foundation have joined forces to work together, this time on a local proposal to redesign the entrance area to the museum complex in September 2021.

Through the Creative Talent and Business program and with the aim of creating an original interior design proposal, in the central part of the garden to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the artist Pons Cirac, through light, reflections and color, characteristic features of his work.

The commission is part of a program of events that will have the collaboration of educational centers and some local businesses and entities, with the aim of disseminating and giving the work of this artist known by the nickname The Angel of Glass the importance it deserves.

The museum has the most important collection in the world, made up of a hundred pieces: vases, paintings, work tools and awards that offer surprising and very curious perspectives, the result of meticulous and painstaking work, where the slightest mistake was impossible to rectify.

Pere Vallhonrat, president of the Vallhonrat Museum Foundation in Rubí, together with the Pons Cirac family, determined that this museum space would be ideal for maintaining the internationally prestigious work in perfect condition.

More than six decades of history at the Vallhonrat Ethnographic Museum (1960-2020)

More than six decades have passed since the founder of the Museum, Miquel Vallhonrat Brau, property administrator and lover of antiques, dedicated part of his free time to recovering, restoring and exhibiting in a small room, old family objects and others from antique dealers or donations.

Currently, the Museum is located in a privileged setting in the city center and has been included in the Catalog and Special Plan for the Protection of the Architectural, Archaeological and Natural Heritage of Rubí.

In 1994 and after a period of renovations to accommodate a greater number of pieces, a new museum project was proposed, expanding the space and creating an auditorium to host cultural events.

The eight rooms that make up the museum house more than 9,000 pieces and allow you to take a journey to discover a recent past that allows you to preserve the ethnographic heritage and at the same time, document and study interesting objects and understand how they have evolved over the years.