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Sabadell Celebrates International Museum Day and Museum Night with Extensive Cultural Program

The city of Sabadell joins the international celebration with exhibitions, guided tours, and family activities until June 4.

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The city of Sabadell joins the celebration of International Museum Day and Museum Night with a cultural program that will extend until June 4, offering exhibitions, guided tours, and activities for all audiences.

The Sabadell City Council has prepared a varied agenda that includes open doors, commented visits, family proposals, and temporary exhibitions. This initiative aims to go beyond the official dates of the commemoration, which is celebrated on May 18.
Among the novelties, the Art Museum will inaugurate this Thursday the exhibition Vicenç Altaió. Nomad of Words, dedicated to a prominent figure in contemporary Catalan culture. The exhibition, which can be visited until June 28, presents about sixty pieces that trace Altaió's creative career, including artist's books, poetry collections, photographs, and personal objects. The exhibition, organized with the UAB, highlights Altaió's links with Sabadell and the Vallès, through artists such as Alfons Borrell or Ramiro Fernández Saus.
The two municipal museums, the History Museum (in Casa Casanovas) and the Art Museum (in Casa Turull), will highlight unique pieces from their collections. The Art Museum will exhibit Alphabet of Modern and Contemporary Painting Styles by Joaquim Busquets, a recent donation that illustrates various styles through 26 works with Venice as the setting. For its part, the History Museum will present Tsantsa. Two Fake Shrunken Heads, an exhibition that invites reflection on colonialism and museum ethics based on two forgeries of human shrunken heads from Shuar communities in Ecuador, which arrived at the museum in the seventies.
Museum Night, which will take place on Saturday, May 16, will offer special hours from five in the afternoon until midnight. At the History Museum, at 8 PM, there will be a guided tour of the Tsantsa exhibition, followed by a poetry and music recital with texts by Lorca, Machado, and Miguel Hernández. At the Art Museum, at 10:15 PM, visitors can enjoy When the Drawing Dances, a live artistic experience that will invite the public to draw a live model in motion.
On Sunday, activities will continue with family workshops. The History Museum will host the workshop Let's Be Paleoanthropologists for children aged 8 and over, while the Art Museum will offer a commented visit to the Alphabet of Modern and Contemporary Painting Styles and the workshop Brushstrokes in Family. In addition, the Paleontology Museum will organize a guided tour of spaces usually closed to the public, with prior registration required.
International Museum Day, celebrated on Monday, May 18, aims to raise awareness about the importance of museums in social development. This year, the theme 'Museums Uniting a Divided World' underscores the role of museums as bridges to overcome cultural, social, and geopolitical divisions.

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