Gavà Museum was founded in 1978 with the aim of preserving, researching and disseminating information on the area´s cultural and natural heritage

The museum is based in Torre Lluch, a stately home built in 1799, which has been municipal property since 1978. After the building was redesigned, the museum was inaugurated in 1991.

The museum has a permanent exhibition, temporary exhibition rooms, a botanical garden, an auditorium, a classroom, a research workshop and offices. From the museum, you can visit the Gavà prehistoric mines, the Ermaprunyà castle, the Mare de Déu de Bruguers hermitage, the Garraf massif and the Llobregat delta.

The museum´s catalogue consists mainly of its archaeological collection, mostly from the prehistoric mines, the Can Sadurní de Begues cave, the Iberian finds from the Calamot de Gavà village, materials found in the Roman and medieval anchorage in the Les Sorres site in the Llobregat Delta, and objects from the Roman period found in excavations in the town centre. The Museum also has a large fossil collection and a documentary and photographic archive of the history of the town. The museum is the Parc Natural del Garraf documentation centre. Also, both the historical and administrative municipal archives are housed here.

The most important of Gavà´s heritage sites is the prehistoric mine, the oldest tunnelled mining complex in Europe, which has been open to visitors since 1993.

In 1994, a year after the mines were opened to the public, the Venus of Gavà was found in one of its shafts. The object is over 5,800 years old and is, to date, the most complete figure dating from that period exhibited in Spanish museums.

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Gavà Museum