Museum and Study Center of Sport Doctor Melcior Colet
This museum is housed in an Art Nouveau house with a modern purpose layered over an earlier life: the Casa Pere Company, built in 1911 by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, on Buenos Aires Street. The building matters because the story of sport in Catalonia is treated here as something worth preserving in a permanent setting, not just celebrating in fleeting events. In 1982, Dr. Melcior Colet i Torrabadella gave the house to the Generalitat of Catalonia so it could become a museum and study center. That “doctor” title is important—this is a place where sport is framed historically and institutionally, linking exhibitions to research and analysis. One of its landmark moments came when, on 13 December 1991, it introduced the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Official Commemorative Medals—a bridge between Catalonia’s sporting history and the Olympic spotlight that would soon follow.
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