Biblioteca Arus
Benefit: 50 minute Guided Tour
Regular Price: Adult GBP 14.52; Child GBP 0.00
FAVOURITE
Attraction Highlights
- Delve into the collection that serves as a reference research center for the social movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Children under 7 years old free.
Benefit:
50 minute Guided Tour
| Address | Pg. De Sant Joan 26. Barcelona |
| Collection Information | Present your pass at the Ticket Office on arrival for entry |
| Phone | +34 93 256 59 50 |
| Work Hours | From 11 November - Every second Saturday 11:15am (Spanish), 12:30pm (Catalan) From 28 November - Every second Tuesday 11:15am (Spanish), 12:30pm (Catalan) |
| Closed Days | Sunday-Monday & Wednesday-Thursday plus every second Saturday and Tuesday (on alternate weeks) |
| Website | https://casessingulars.com/en/las-casas/biblioteca-arus/ |
What to expect
The visit to the Arús Library allows us to delve into its collection as a reference research center for the social movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Founded in 1895 by the will of Rossend Arús, the Library was installed in the house where Arús lived.
Things to look out for
The Arús Public Library was inaugurated in 1895 with the intention of being a library for the education of the working class.
The Arús Library had some 24,000 volumes when it opened that covered all areas of knowledge of the moment and that remain in the library to this day. This collection includes material as diverse as philosophy, religion, social sciences, law, languages, biology, botany, medicine, art, music, literature, geography and history. As well as other general works such as dictionaries, press, etc.
The fact that the library closed to the public in 1939 and didn’t reopen again until 1967 meant that it avoided the purifying Francoist purges and the collection found today remains mostly intact.
Helpful Tips
Currently, the Public Arús Library is a specialised research centre of history and culture from the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, which has maintained this original collection which is testament to the time in which it was founded, it also has a special collection covering the labour movement, anarchism and freemasonry, which have been completed gradually thanks to donations from entities and individuals.
The current collection has 75,323 volumes.
| Address | Pg. De Sant Joan 26. Barcelona |
| Phone | +34 93 256 59 50 |
| Work Hours | From 11 November - Every second Saturday 11:15am (Spanish), 12:30pm (Catalan) From 28 November - Every second Tuesday 11:15am (Spanish), 12:30pm (Catalan) |
| Closed Days | Sunday-Monday & Wednesday-Thursday plus every second Saturday and Tuesday (on alternate weeks) |
| Website | https://casessingulars.com/en/las-casas/biblioteca-arus/ |
