A new space in the Olympic and Sports Museum
Highlights of the refurbished area of the Olympic Museum include the yacht Dragon Fortuna and two new spaces; one is interactive and aimed at younger visitors, plus a new cultural space dedicated to art and film with sporting connections.
A great turnout for the Olympic Walk
This year, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Barcelona Olympic Games of ’92, many of those who acted as volunteers turned up in their former uniforms, stored and preserved like a treasure.
Trailwalker Intermon Oxfam 2012
On the occasion of the second edition of the Interworld Oxfam Trailwalker, the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum will host the Trailwalker 2012 exhibition from 6 to 31 March.
Xavier Trias visits the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum for the first time
Xavier Trias, the Mayor of Barcelona, accompanied his in-laws – including Montserrat Amat, the widow of film director and producer Josep Arraut de Ossó – to the screening of the film “II Mediterranean Games. Barcelona, July 1955”.
Presentation of the New Barcelona Baseball Club
Presentation of the Barcelona Baseball Club. This new club has come about because FC Barcelona has dispensed with the legendary baseball team which dated from 1931.
A delegation from Guangzhou (China) visits the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum
The Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum is generating burgeoning interest among various delegations from Asia. The Vocational Sports Institute has joined the list of entities from Asia requesting a tour of the Olympic Museum.
THE LIGHT THAT CAPTURES SPORTS
Hidden behind the title La llum que captura l’esport (The Light that Captures Sports) is the etymological and semantic origin of the term “photograph”, a nineteenth-century discipline formed by two words of Greek origin: φως (light) and γραφη (writing). Thus, we can say that the notion of photography holds within it the concept of writing […]
Lausanne hosted the 6th General Assembly of Olympic Museums Network
The General Assembly of Olympic Museum was held the 29 and 30 September in the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne.
La Fundació Barcelona Olímpica col·labora amb la Qingdao International Sailing Week
A través de les gestions del Sr. Josep Antón Camuñas, exsecretari General d’Esports de la Generalitat de Catalunya, la Fundació Barcelona Olímpica ha cedit diversos pòsters i litografies per a la seva exposició a Quingdao. Entre aquests, es trobaven:
Pòsters oficials, de diferents autors, dels Jocs Olímpics de Barcelona ’92; una litografia original amb motiu de la Petra, de Javier Mariscal; i una col·lecció fotogràfica de la Biennal de Reus Fotosport, de qui la Fundació Barcelona Olímpica n’és col·laboradora.
The swiss production suiza HUGO KOBLET: PÉDALEUR DE CHARME, by DANIEL VON AARBURG vas the winner of Àmfora Ciutat de Barcelona of the BCN Sports Film 2011, given by Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch.
Carme Mas, president of Federació Catalana de Ciclisme, on behalf of the winner film, took the prize from Maite Fandos, councillor at Ajuntament de Barcelona
