VINSEUM, another museum in continuous transformation. From the local collection to the world

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Published: Nov 25, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/diferents.6684
Keywords:
Heritage, History of Wine, Wine Cultures, First Wine Museum, Catalan Museums

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Jordi Ribas Boldú
Vinseum, Museum of the Wine Cultures of Catalonia
Xavier Fornos
Vinseum, Museu de les Cultures del Vi de Catalunya

Abstract

VINSEUM, Museum of the Wine Cultures of Catalonia (an updated version of the old Museum of Vilafranca – The Wine Museum) is fortunate to continue growing and adapting to the cultural changes of society. The museum continues to refine its look at the history of wine and its constant evolution, and it does so as a central pillar as well as a transversal axis that connects a local tradition with a universal culture. The institution has undergone many changes since its origins in 1935, obviously marked by the historical development, but also by the original will to provide the city with a museum institution that guarantees the safeguarding of local cultural heritage. The museum also wishes to become the first reference in the study and dissemination of wine legacy. The article summarizes its history, zooms in on one of its most universal areas of its permanent exhibition, the After dinner, and details examples of current projects that will surely mark its projection and define its cultural action program: the Most International Wine Film Festival and the VilaPensa – Penedès Philosophy Festival. A three-part article that aims to explain why VINSEUM is projected as a public institution that wants to be a reference for the history of Catalan wine.


 

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Ribas Boldú, J., & Fornos, X. (2022). VINSEUM, another museum in continuous transformation. From the local collection to the world. Diferents. Revista De Museus, (7), 8–25. https://doi.org/10.6035/diferents.6684
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Author Biographies

Jordi Ribas Boldú, Vinseum, Museum of the Wine Cultures of Catalonia

Graduate in Art History from the University of Barcelona. As a cultural worker he has worked in different fields of culture and visual arts (creation, education, communication, management, etc.). Among other responsibilities, she has coordinated the Visual Arts Program of the Can Felipa Civic Center in Barcelona (2006-2011), has been responsible for communication and mediation of the CA Tarragona Art Center (2011-2013) and since 2014 works as responsible for activities of the VINSEUM Museum of Wine Cultures of Catalonia and the Mosto International Wine Film Festival. He has collaborated in different cultural projects for the Office of Artistic Diffusion of the Diputación de Barcelona, the Institution of Catalan Letters, the Laboratory of Arts of the Foundation «la Caixa», We experiment with art, the Ramon Llull Institute, etc. He has written La vinya de Joseph Beuys (Barcelona: ViBop, 2021).

Xavier Fornos, Vinseum, Museu de les Cultures del Vi de Catalunya

Graduate in Art History from the University of Barcelona, Master in Museology and Heritage Management from the University of Barcelona. Between 2000 and 2002 he worked as a documentarian and curator at the Víctor Balaguer Museum Library in Vilanova i la Geltrú and the Sitges Museums. At the Vilafranca Museum, he first worked on a grant for documentation and photography of the collections (1998-2003), then as a technician responsible for the cultural program (2003-2006) and as curator in none, responsible for the dismantling and transfer of the collections of the museum’s former exhibition (2006-2009). Since 2010 he is director of the VINSEUM Museum of Wine Cultures of Catalonia. He is also one of the founders and current director of the Mosto International Wine Film Festival (since 2011). He has been a member of the board of directors of the Association of Wine Museums of Spain (2013-2019), a member of the board of directors of the Association of Museologists of Catalonia (2014-2019) and also a member of the Network of Museums of Ethnology of Catalonia (since 2013).

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