While Sant Feliu de Guíxols’ rich past is preserved in its history and maritime rescue museums the town also has a toy museum. A major art museum is due to open in 2020.
The museums
History museum
Plaça del Monestir
Located on three floors of the monastery, the history museum has an extensive collection of exhibits. These cover archaeology, the history of the monastery and town, the cork industry and the sea. It also includes paintings from local artists, including Josel Albertí.
You can also visit the two mediaeval towers of El Fum and El Corn, which flank the earlier Porta Ferrada facade, and the Abbot’s Palace, which is used for temporary exhibitions.
Maritime Rescue museum
Pujada dels Guíxols
The maritime rescue museum is located in the old lifeboat station, which dates from 1890. Exhibits include a Dawson cable launcher, a Miquel Boera lifeboat and transport carriage and an assortment other items.
The museum includes an audiovisual element to help explain things in more detail and provide some of the drama of maritime rescue.
Toy museum
Rambla Vidal, 48-50
Located in a mansion built in the Catalan moderniste style you’ll find the town’s toy museum with some 3500 mainly Spanish exibits dating between 1870 and 1980.
The museum examines the evolution of toys from tin in the nineteenth century to plastic in the twentieth. Within the museum you’ll find rooms devoted to model trains, horror and dolls.
Espai Carmen Thyssen
Palau de l’Abat
From 2012 to 2018 between June and October you could see exhibitions of carefully curated works from the Carmen Thyssen Collection in the Abbott’s Palace. While the Espai Carmen Thyssen has now closed the expanded Carmen Thyssen Museum is due to open in Sant Feliu de Guíxols in late 2020.
