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Installed in successive premises and known by various names over its more than one hundred years of history, its origin was that of a small technical library created during the Universal Exposition of 1888 [1].

In 1902, with the Museums Board, a period began that would end in 1906-1907 with its opening to the public in the old Arsenal of the Palau de la Ciutadella and with the creation of a Special Library Commission.

It is worth highlighting the role of Josep Puig i Cadafalch [2], who organised the collection and adopted the model of the major libraries of contemporary European and American Art, a task subsequently continued by Joaquim Folch i Torres [3] (in Spanish), the first director of the Art Museums of Barcelona.

From 2013, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Joaquim Folch i Torres, the library bears his name.

 

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Joaquim Folch i Torres

Links
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1888_Barcelona_Universal_Exposition [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Puig_i_Cadafalch [3] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Folch_y_Torres [4] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/library-history