Can Mario Museum

Can Mario Museum is the Fundacio Vila Casas Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Palafrugell Costa Brava. It become opened in 2004. It has round 220 works on display dating from the 1960s to the modern-day by using a huge variety of artists born or residing in Catalonia. Temporary exhibitions also are held each year. Temporary exhibitions are organised every year. Can Mario became a cork manufacturing facility courting from the early 20^th century and changed into one of the homes of the Miquel & Vincke cork organisation. Today it's far a place for contemplating artwork situated inside the Placa de Can Mario, where you can also discover a modernista water tower and the Cork Museum.

Since April 2011, 33 sculptures by artists from the Emporda location of Catalonia were placed within the Gardens of Can Mario, as everlasting, outdoor well-knownshows. In October of the equal year the Emporda Gallery was opened inside the Museum, for holding temporary exhibitions of artists from the location. The Fundacio Vila Casas, founded in 1986 by means of the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Antoni Vila Casas, is a private, non-earnings making corporation which has the advertising of current Catalan art as its most important goal. With five exhibition centres, all a part of the Catalan architectural background, the foundation has become a platform for showing the everlasting series and keeping temporary indicates of the artists featured within the collection.