Igualada Muleteers Museum

The Igualada Muleteer's Museum - Antoni Ros collection is a museum placed in Igualada, Catalonia, Spain, that presentations the evolution of delivery the use of mules, horses and other animals, and the special relationships between several trades that paved the manner for the career of muleteer, inclusive of the carter, cooper, saddler, tanner, wicker weaver, farrier, veterinarian, stablehand, woodcutter and timber hauler, harness maker and blacksmith.

The museum presentations 39 carriages and carts and a total of 2.175 gadgets, maximum of them part of the gathering created by way of Antoni Ros i Vilarrubias. The museum is placed near the old metropolis middle, at an vintage farmhouse from the 18^th century, which become bought within the Seventies by means of the Ros circle of relatives, a own family carefully linked to the "Antic Gremi de Traginers d'Igualada" muleteer association.

It is shipped into three fundamental thematic areas. The "Traginer d'Igualada" basis became created in 1994 in Igualada with the goal of creating the Muleteer's Museum. The Ros family, proprietor of the collection created through Antoni Ros I Vilarrubias, was in rate of the inspiration, and contacted a group of experts that prepared the Museum project. The museum became completely open on September 24, 2005, and became part of the museum network controlled by way of the Diputació de Barcelona.