EMM2 - Espai Memòries

A new space for memory and art is offered to the city. It is located in the warehouse at Plaça de la Reforma, which preserves the Museum of Manresa’s collection of stone elements, mainly originating from the demolition of the city’s Gothic and Baroque churches and convents in 1936 during the Civil War, in the midst of the revolutionary period. Fragments of sculptures, keystones, sarcophagi, capitals, column shafts and bases, among others, make up this collection.

Through the installation “El que diuen les pedres, callen els arbres” (What the Stones Say, the Trees Silence), artist Jesús Galdón opens the lapidary collection of the Museum of Manresa to a transversal and contemporary perspective that invites us to reflect on the origin, continuity, and destruction of local — and at the same time universal — heritage.

It is a distinctive and engaging project aimed at all audiences, highlighting the role and function that museums have historically played in protecting artistic and cultural heritage. Through an aesthetic proposal, it encourages reflection on memory and culture, on what we consider heritage and how it is constructed.

The lapidary forms part of the Museum’s Memory Spaces axis and becomes a reference point for the city’s historical memory sites, as well as a space for citizen engagement in processes of reflection on our recent past, the present, and the future.