Gironas museums – What do the towns museums have to offer?
A lot! The Museu d’Art is housed on the southeastern side of the cathedral in the restored Episcopal Palace. The early rooms deal with Romanesque art, including some impressive Majestats (wooden images of Christ wrapped in a tunic) taken from the province’s churches. Among the manuscripts on display are an eleventh-century copy of Bede’s works and an amazing martyrology from the monastery of Poblet. The collection then progresses chronologically as you climb the floors, passing a room of bright fifteenth-century retables (their intricate scenes almost 3D in effect), some splendid Renaixement works such as a lovely set of sixteenth-century liturgical items and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Catalan art on the top two floors.
