Cal Gerrer: Museu Marilyn Entrada

The Fundació Cabanas is a private, non-profit foundation created to preserve the 'Cal Gerrer' building and publicize the ceramics of the Arpí family, the Marilyn Monroe Archive, and the work of the Cabanas-Alibau brothers. The headquarters of the Fundació Cabanas is located in the old 'Fàbrica de Productes Ceràmics de Arpí', popularly known as 'Cal Gerrer'. This unique pre-modernist building, documented in 1851 and included in the Municipal Catalog of Real Estate, is located in the center of Sant Cugat del Vallés, next to the Monastery, and stands out for integrating pieces made in the same building into the decoration of its façade. factory. Inside we find three permanent exhibitions and a room for temporary exhibitions. Arpí pottery factory The museumization process of the building has been a project devised in order to preserve the memory of what was the most important ceramics factory in Vallés and surroundings, currently being the only ceramics house-factory in the entire Spanish state. Its rehabilitation has allowed the recovery of traditional elements and spaces of the old pottery, where a collection of ceramic works is exhibited. The saga of the Arpí potters, originally from Terrassa, dates back to the 17th century and through their work they uninterruptedly fill three centuries of history dedicated to the art of ceramics. The exhibition aims to highlight the symbiosis that was created around ceramic production between tradition, history and creative spirit. A selection of these works such as balusters, corbels or capitals is shown to the public, as well as a compilation of decorative ceramic pieces, in which the combination of functional and artistic aspects is intertwined. Cabanas-Alibau Brothers The Cabanas-Alibau family, born in Sants (Barcelona) and established in Sant Cugat in 1922, has had one of the most relevant careers in the local artistic field. The different rooms that make up the exhibition are structured into three areas, offering an anthology of the works of the three brothers: Joan, Francesc and Miquel. Archive Marilyn Monroe This exhibition is presented from the particular point of view of its author, Frederic Cabanas, an artist from Sant Cugat who has spent more than 35 years collecting objects and documents, mainly books on the American actress. This is the first museum dedicated to Marilyn Monroe in Europe, which offers the visitor to let himself be seduced both by Marilyn's artistic sensibility and by the warmth that emerges from the atmosphere of collecting. Lookout An important part of the museum is the viewpoint, the small terrace crowned by the sculptural work of Frederic Cabanas that presides over the roof, and the balcony that offers us the most beautiful views of the Monastery and the Collserola mountain range.