Recreation of the maths museum in La Sala Gran, El Papiol

El Nus del Papiol

Design for an interactive maths museum

Re-creation of the museum based on our drawings.

Client
El Papiol Town Council
Location
La Sala Gran, El Papiol
Floor area
303 m² on the ground floor
Years
2022 to 2025
Type
Interactive museum

A mathematics museum in La Sala Gran in El Papiol, a 17th-century building, where visitors step into 1680.

The project

The exhibition design for the ground floor, with the route, the twelve areas, the drawings and the budget.

The build

Wooden furniture, metal scales and weights, and fabric. The screens are hidden behind panels that look like stone or wood.

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The twelve areas

The museum's ground floor with the twelve areas and the route

Lobby

Where groups come in.

Introduction

A model of El Papiol and the tunnel to 1680.

Storehouse

Fitting boxes and sharing out volumes.

Engraving of the Papiol market in 1680

Trade

Weighing, changing money and working out prices.

“Wanted” poster for Lo Barqueró, the 1680 bandit

Lo Barqueró's den

Chance and dice, with the bandit who acts as guide.

Mobility

Planning a journey by cart.

Engraving of astronomers with maps and compasses

Astronomy

Telling the time by the shadow.

Navigation

Bearings and nautical charts.

Work and rest

Tables for thinking as a group.

The final problem

The knot that won't come undone.

Catalan mathematics

Films in the old vat room.

Shop

The way out of the museum.

Our axonometric drawing of La Sala Gran
Our axonometric drawing of La Sala Gran
Section of the building with the museum's two floors
Section of the building with the museum's two floors
The museum modules piece by piece, as an engraving
The museum modules piece by piece, as an engraving

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