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Girona History Museum

Institute of Secondary Education

Laboratory jars with chemicals of the former Institute of Secondary Education of Girona, 19th and 20th centuries. Photo by Aniol Resclosa.

Laboratory jars with chemicals of the former Institute of Secondary Education of Girona, 19th and 20th centuries. Photo by Aniol Resclosa.

As already mentioned, this Museum is located in a former convent of Capuchin monks that dates to the 18th century, which in 1845 became the first Institute of Secondary Education in Girona, and one of the first in Catalonia. The instruments and tools used by the students (girls also attended the Institute) in the science classes have been preserved in the Museum and are a reminder of that time when Girona was a capital in many respects: educational, cultural, political, economic, administrative, industrial, and communications; the latter precisely thanks to the train that has connected the city with Barcelona and the world since 1862.

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09. Girona, capital. Objects in the science room at the Institut Vell

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