Episcopal Museum of Vic

The Episcopal Museum (Museu Episcopal de Vic) holds one of the finest collections of Romanesque art in Europe outside of a cathedral or major capital. The collection of altarpieces, sculptures, frescoes, and liturgical objects spans the tenth to the fifteenth century, with particular strength in the twelfth- and thirteenth-century works from the Catalan Pyrenean churches.

The building itself, opened in 2002, is a contemporary design by architects Enric Sòria and Josep Llinàs that handles the ancient collection with intelligence — natural light falls across the carved capitals and painted panels without competing with them. Allow at least two hours; the collection is genuinely rich. The museum is a short walk from the cathedral.

Open Tuesday to Saturday and Sunday morning. Closed Mondays. Entry fee applies; reduced on Sundays.

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The museum's collection of Romanesque art was assembled largely from rural churches across the Osona comarca during the late nineteenth century, when a group of local scholars recognized that the altarpieces and frescoes in isolated country parishes were at risk of destruction or theft. Their rescue effort gathered over a thousand years of Catalan religious art into a single building.

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