MEV, Museu d'Art Medieval de Vic

The MEV, formerly the Museu Episcopal de Vic, is at Plaça Bisbe Oliba, 3, right next to the cathedral. It was founded by Bishop Josep Morgades in 1891 and since 18 May 2002 has occupied a new building. It holds more than 29,000 pieces: above all Catalan Romanesque and Gothic painting and sculpture, and also archaeology, stonework, textiles, glass, leather, furniture, goldsmithing, ironwork, ceramics and coins.

The Davallament of Erill la Vall and the Ribes baldachin

The museum's "Masterpieces" route brings together the main works, with pieces from the churches of the district and the Pyrenees: the Davallament of Erill la Vall, carvings of the Descent from the Cross from the first half of the 12th century whose originals are split between the MEV and the MNAC, and of which Santa Eulàlia d'Erill la Vall holds a copy; the Ribes baldachin, from 1119 to 1134; the altar frontal from Sant Martí de Puigbò; the apse paintings from Sant Sadurní d'Osormort, or the Majesty of Sant Boi de Lluçanès. Beyond the medieval period, the same route includes an Egyptian mummy with its sarcophagus and an Iberian stele with warriors and a wolf.

If you do not want to go round on your own, the museum also offers the "Essential Itinerary" and "Today, a thousand years ago!", with its mobile website and the Visitmuseum app, and a 360º virtual tour to prepare from home.

Winter and summer hours

From October to March it opens Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 15:00 to 18:00; from April to September, Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 19:00. All year, Saturdays from 10:00 to 19:00 and Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 14:00. It closes on Mondays that are not public holidays, on 1 and 6 January, on Easter Monday and on 25 and 26 December. Tickets are sold until half an hour before closing.

€8.50, or free on the first Thursday

Entry costs €8.50. The reduced rate, €5.50, applies to pensioners, the unemployed, young people aged 10 to 18, students, people with disabilities and their companion and large or single-parent families, among others. It is free for under-10s, on the first Thursday of each month except public holidays, on 18 May and on 5 July. If you will be coming back, the annual pass costs €22. Temporary exhibitions are paid separately, €2.

With children and with a backpack

At reception they give out a free clue game, observation sheets on the Romanesque altar frontals and animals, in Spanish, Catalan, English and French, and sheets to find and colour for the little ones. Each season there is a different family activity; from September to November it is a proposal about art through the senses, from age 5. Workshops cost €6 per child and accompanying adults do not pay.

Bags, backpacks and umbrellas larger than 40 x 40 cm go to the cloakroom, which is free. The building has ramps and lifts, and lends wheelchairs. By car, the historic centre has restricted access: the nearest adapted car park is on Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret.

From the door, the Sant Pere cathedral is a few steps away, and the Main Square a few minutes' walk.