This Saint George's Day you can enjoy a lot of activities related to books, the museum and dragons.

Saint George's Day with family: Taking advantage that Diada is on the weekend, we have prepared for you a Sunday morning to enjoy with family. You can do the familiar tour, that an user has created in UniqueVisitors app. 

New editorial publishing: Catalogues of the exhibitions William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement in Great Britain and Francesc Torres. The entropic box. You are able to purchase them, with a 10% discount, in the museum's shop and in the Laie bookshops of Barcelona. #llibresart

Montjuïc, an open book: from 16th to 28th April, the libraries of the Montjuïc Park will offer a common material, Japan and Japanese culture. In each library you will be able to consult the related books which will be selected for you and exhibited in the reading rooms (consult the opening times and access conditions on the website of each library). If you are interested in these topics, you can read the article in the blog by Yolanda Ruiz, "Japonism and its presence in the museum library" and visit the new presentation in the graphic art room of #Renaissance and Baroque, where some of the Japanese prints from the museum collection are exhibited. In our library, you will be able to consult and take the book from this list (pdf). #MontjuïcOpenbook

Do you feel curiosity about the world of books? Discover the virtual itinerary and you can see how the meaning of the book has changed throughout history, since the period of the Romanesque, until now, since the book as a sacred object until reaching the reading as a pleasure and source of knoledge. 

Certainly all of you know the legend of Saint George's Day, but if you are curious to know more things of this saint and the reason of diada, this post cand deeply interests you.

New album in Pinterest devoted to the dragons that appear in our collection. Moreover, we encourage you to share books album, ex-libris album and Saint George's Day album that you will find also on the board. 

 Follow Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya's board Dracs / Dragones / Dragons on Pinterest

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