Museu dels Sants d'Olot Info and Reviews

Fantastic experience: A very interesting visit to get closer to the culture of Olot. The immersive experience is a lot of fun.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting museum and the learning activity is spectacular.
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Positive experience: The truth is that the sculptures scare me, I went there with school, and they have the giants trapped there and turned off the lights. The facilities are fine. They have too many trapped statues and their hands have fallen off. They have put them in a fish sack (or it looks like it). I think it's great to go with people, but it's not my style.
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Positive experience: Recommended and surprising visit to understand the history of the imaginer school of Olot, from which so many religious images came (and continue to come).
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Fantastic experience: Interesting museum in Olot where the Olot tradition of modeling religious figures is explained and displayed. A different museum due to its theme. The visit is self-guided, so you can go at your own pace and stop where you find most interesting. Perhaps it would be good to update it a bit and make it more interactive with a few more screens and "buttons" to press. Especially for younger visitors.
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Fantastic experience: For Christmas, they organize an activity for all ages. Look for the caganers. It gives visibility to the museum.
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Fantastic experience: Very beautiful museum where you are warmly welcomed. You can watch a short film in French about the activity that prevailed in Olot around the statue-making. A somewhat magical side!
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Positive experience: Impressive, very interesting, totally recommended to visit.
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Fantastic experience: Even though I have been to Olot many times, I had not had the chance to visit this museum until yesterday, when taking advantage of the Christmas fair and the nativity scene exhibition, we enjoyed this wonderful museum, highly recommended, especially the workshop and its explanatory videos on how they make the figures. It's worth a visit!
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Fantastic experience: Excellent visit, they guide you through everything and if you have any questions the museum staff are very nice and know a lot. 100% recommended
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting, I loved it, it has a lot of history
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Fantastic experience: It is a very beautiful museum, highly recommended if you like the showbiz and all kinds of virgins and saints, it's your ideal museum.
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Fantastic experience: Very cool 100% OLOT
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Fantastic experience: Essential. Very friendly and very interesting.
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Fantastic experience: It is interesting even for a non-believer like me. The attention from the receptionist is excellent, you could tell there was a real passion for explaining where you were.
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Fantastic experience: Interesting and unique
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Fantastic experience: Different and interactive. Highly recommended. Included for one euro more is the art museum as well.
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Fantastic experience: A very interesting visit, and highly recommended, they have been very attentive
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Fantastic experience: The truth is that it is a wonderful museum. It is perfectly structured and not only narrates the importance of Olot in religious imagery, it is history of its culture. It is an essential museum to understand Olot in the last century. We specifically went from Barcelona to see it... And I hope to return many more times. Recommended 100x100. The girl at the reception who attended us on Saturday morning couldn't have been more charming!! It's a pleasure to meet such pleasant people who, in addition to doing their job, care that visitors are comfortable, enjoy, and make the most of their visit. I loved the museum's infrastructure, the lights perfectly positioned to create atmosphere and highlight the pieces. Interactive details, views of the workshop, etc... I am incapable of sticking to my favorite part of the museum! Every corner deserves to be photographed, explored, and admired. I have been to a number of museums, and understanding the limitations that this one may have, I give it a 10 out of 10. I promise to return to enjoy it. To pick a fault, I missed more merchandising in the shop, perhaps more vintage. I guess that's more commercial topics and I understand that for this I'm somewhat special. In summary, a fantasy that makes Olot even more special! Thank you very much
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Positive experience: Empty museum
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting and totally recommendable visit. Beyond the religious product, it is the craftsman, traditional, and international reference. It's a pity that our society does not know how to appreciate it.
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Fantastic experience: A great discovery in Olot, the attention received upon arrival from the staff was excellent, during the self-guided visit we were able to enjoy every corner, walking through its halls, we liked it a lot, looking forward to returning with my girlfriend and for her to enjoy the museum too. Don't miss the presentation video, it's worth it. There are restrooms, a souvenir shop, elevator.
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Fantastic experience: The visit to the Museum of Saints was very pleasant and interesting. Totally recommendable. Josep's explanations at the reception helped us a lot to understand and appreciate this very special place... Thank you very much!!
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Fantastic experience: “Heaven and hell are here, on earth,” my grandmother used to say. The Bible says that one should not punish one for the other. (Parents should not be punished for their children and children should not be punished for their parents). So, why punish the flesh body, for the spiritual body (soul)? The Saints enter the Pantheon of those who are honored in memory. Apart from this, no one guarantees anything: it is a promise that may or may not be fulfilled. The Museum of Saints, an emblematic museum, special for its nature, is recommended for those living in or just passing through Olot or nearby. To highlight: the Kings of Olot, the eagle, the giants' group, the “foc de terra”, as the Catalans living in Olot and around call, the fireplace. For those who do not like dolls, the first floor is not recommended. I have visited it twice.
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Positive experience: Highly recommended. Whether you are religious or not.
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Positive experience: We did the free activity of looking for hidden caganers throughout the museum. Very fun to do with the kids.
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Positive experience: We took the opportunity to do the caganers activity and we liked it a lot
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Positive experience: It is fine and Olot is beautiful.
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Positive experience: A curious museum, and for people who are really into the theme, as there are a bunch of statues, in the old-fashioned way of museums with accumulation of objects. It tries small nuggets of modernization with an area for virtual glasses, and some small playful element on each floor: doing a puzzle, guessing the statue by touch, etc. We went for Christmas for the activity they have of searching for the 100 hidden caganers among the statues. It was very fun and also free, ideal for children aged 5 to 12. Mariona at the reception was very kind, professional, attentive, and friendly with us!
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Fantastic experience: We went on Sunday during the Puríssima Bridge, they were doing a challenge to find the 100 hidden caganers throughout the museum, it was very fun and we found 97! Besides the caganer activity, they showed us a video about the history of the museum and what it meant for Olot and the work it generated. The figures of saints are spectacular and everything is very well displayed, we loved it! Too bad the workshop where they make the saints was closed (they don't open on holidays) we would have bought Santa Tura. We will have to come back ❤️❤️❤️
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting to learn about a craft that is still very much alive
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting!! We were at the Fair yesterday, and there was a caganers contest all around the museum, perfect for the little ones and not so little. A fun way to visit the museum at this time.
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Positive experience: Visit more interesting than I expected, downstairs there is a workshop and you can see how they still work on the saints and figures. There is a curious showcase, the flat where Marian Vayreda lived. Overall it is very photogenic.
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Positive experience: Instructive visit…
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Positive experience: Entertaining escape room and on the way you visit the museum.
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Fantastic experience: Recommended if you're in the area, whether with children or without. It's a curious and entertaining museum to visit. The kids have games to play. The reception guy (shame we didn't ask for his name) was very professional and nice. Don't hesitate to go.
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Fantastic experience: Very beautiful, exquisite attention to visitors, a very magical place ❤️
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Fantastic experience: A very welcoming and interesting museum! And a very friendly guide! We 100% recommend the visit!
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Fantastic experience: Interesting museum both for the art and for the architecture of the building, the guy who attended us was very nice and did not hesitate to give us explanations about the history and content of the museum for which we are very grateful. Thank you very much
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Positive experience: The explanatory video is very good, too bad that more things cannot be seen.
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Fantastic experience: I was surprised by the treasures and wealth of the museum, and especially by the devotion with which the guide tells us, a 10 for him.
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Positive experience: Stop by the museum, simple but interesting.
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Fantastic experience: Wonderful the museum with so many people, so many saints that seem to breathe... small, medium, large with shining eyes and perfect hands. A generous and educational museum. A great pleasure the visit.
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Fantastic experience: Un museu amb molt d'encant !!
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Fantastic experience: Surprising industrial museum of religious statue manufacturing. Interesting. Worth a detour. Very good welcome.
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Positive experience: I did not expect to find so many Saints together. A workshop to learn the technique of restoration.
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Fantastic experience: Interesting, to know the history of how it started and how they abolish the history of how they create.
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Positive experience: Very interesting place. Religious imagery. You can see the professionals working on the saints.
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Fantastic experience: Very beautiful, especially the nativity scenes
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting, you can see the workshop and several exhibition halls. The man who gave us the explanation was very kind and informed us great. I recommend it. They also have interactive exercises for children.
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Fantastic experience: The gentleman at the entrance was very kind and informed us about how to do the visit and what we would find, to better understand the route. When we finished the visit, he explained some more curiosities to us. It's a pleasure to meet people who convey how much they enjoy their work and have knowledge. Highly recommended visit. A pleasant find.
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Fantastic experience: Impressive! It's spectacular from a religious point of view but even more so for its historical-artistic value. Seeing the workshop working after knowing the history and process is amazing. Very good attention at reception. There is a combined ticket available with other museums in the city.
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Positive experience: Very interesting, it is one of the last factories, a guide that explains the manufacturing very well.
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Fantastic experience: Essential, very interesting, it still keeps some spaces like a craftsman workshop where you can see how they make the figures of saints
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Fantastic experience: We learn a lot about the making of religious statues in our churches! And we see the artisans at work, with fingers of fairies...
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Fantastic experience: Small curious museum about the saint industry. It still operates as a workshop. Highlight the friendliness of the staff, they gave us all kinds of details and other recommendations about Olot and its museums.
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Positive experience: Very interesting.
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Positive experience: Very interesting
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Fantastic experience: Very cool
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Positive experience: Saint fabrication and explanatory film
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Fantastic experience: I really liked the museum and the workshops where they still make the figures by hand. Very nice.
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Fantastic experience: Interesting museum, the guy at reception is super friendly with the explanation. I am not a believer and I have to acknowledge that it is worth seeing. Free
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Positive experience: I, being anti-religious, have to admit that it is very good, very educational with a lot of art, and I don't give it 5 stars because, like good dishes, it left me wanting more.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting historically, artistically, and culturally. Pleasant and understandable visit. I recommend it.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting because it allows you to learn more about the industry of Olot and about the creation of these sculptures.
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Fantastic experience: Amazing this factory of wood paste statues. Lined up against each other, with arms and hands cut off, tied around the neck to take up less space, these statues look at us with their glass eyes, carefully chosen from a drawer in the eye cupboard...
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Fantastic experience: Impressive, it's a shame that there are few things for sale in their store.
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Fantastic experience: Unique in the world. Highly recommended.
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Fantastic experience: Small museum, great history of Olot, thousand people worked creating these statues. Very interesting, and free.

Fantastic experience: Very well maintained museum, very interesting
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting and very suitable for families. Children have a cool booklet to follow the visit.
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Positive experience: Very nice museum. Very interesting. The person who attended us was very kind, explained very well everything we could see. On the ground floor, there is the workshop, during the week you can see how they work. They even make the eyes of the saints themselves! In the past, Vayreda's children lived upstairs, and downstairs they had the workshop... now it is a very well-made museum! I recommend it 100%.
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Fantastic experience: A meeting with the history of #olot. A magical place that combines the exhibition of relics and treasures of the city with the workshop of the Santos that has been functioning since 1880. The technique used for the creation of the Santos has been blessed by the Pope and at one point in history they exported a good number of pieces of all kinds to various cities around the world. The pieces by the sculptor Ramón Amadeu are also displayed, considered the precursor of the realistic technique for nativity pieces.
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Fantastic experience: It's a beauty
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting
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Fantastic experience: Very good service. Thank you very much, he/she loved it.
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Fantastic experience: The attention from the gentleman who received us was exquisite. It had been a while since we were treated so well in a museum. We missed -due to being in vacation time- the real-time work of the workers, but with the videos, we had enough to learn the secrets of wood pulp. An absolutely recommended museum. We loved it.
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Positive experience: To know how the figures that surround us are made, from the saints to the giant heads, passing through the nativity figures, with the workshop in sight.
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Fantastic experience: It is unlikely that many people will visit. But I went to Olot just to go here. A museum that I want to be preserved.

Fantastic experience: Very well explained and illustrated
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Fantastic experience: Authentic and worth visiting. Very curious!
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Fantastic experience: Interesting visit, it's worth getting to know an art so rooted in our territory.
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Fantastic experience: Original and different!
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Fantastic experience: A excellent centre for exploring different elements of Catalan culture and Christian art. Visitors are greeted with numerous giant heads, all used in Catalan festivities and which represent various saints, historical figures, and fantastical beasts from a medieval menagerie. Thereafter, there is plenty of Christian art to admire and enjoy. You can learn about how religious works of art were and are still made here in Olot, and there are various works by Ramon Amadeu. The figures of the Three Marys are breathtaking when you consider the fine detail of the work. Please note that some parts of the museum are not accessible for visitors in wheelchairs.

Fantastic experience: Magnificent!
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Fantastic experience: Interesting, you can see how they work, the collection of models and the technique. Very educational.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting museum
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Fantastic experience: During the Christmas holidays, entry is free. The visit is very interesting, allowing one to see many sculptures of different styles and sizes, as well as the way they are crafted. It was a pleasant surprise; I have been to Olot many times and did not know about this museum. My daughters, aged 14, 12, and 9, loved it.
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Fantastic experience: Those eyes do not deceive you, this museum is next to a functioning factory that mainly produces holy figures (although not only). You can peek at the work of the sculptors, a very nice place worth seeing.
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Positive experience: Friendly and different
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Fantastic experience: Very special museum, I recommend taking the guided tour.
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Fantastic experience: I found it very interesting. A traditional activity of the city of Olot presented in a didactic way. Museum not too big. Well thought out to show this piece of culture, historically and artistically. It is worth noting the possibility of engaging children with simple and well-thought-out activities.
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Positive experience: Beautiful
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Positive experience: It's worth visiting, very curious
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Fantastic experience: Good place to see and understand religious imagery
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Fantastic experience: Museum where work is still being done on new sculptures

Fantastic experience: Calm and educational
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Fantastic experience: A strange good experience.
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Fantastic experience: It is a museum like no others, with religious imagery, unique and beautiful figures from various workshops of saints here in Olot, some of which no longer exist. It also now features various versions of rubber craft figures, it is worth going to visit.
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Fantastic experience: An extraordinary display of the history and evolution of craftsmanship in Olot, which for many years was a benchmark in the creation of religious imagery.
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Fantastic experience: A part of our history.
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Fantastic experience: Very good and original museum, it's worth it
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Positive experience: Curious
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Positive experience: Factory of religious images in Olot. Interesting, monothematic, clear, but pleasing to the eye.
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Fantastic experience: A beautiful place, with history
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Fantastic experience: A museum to understand the history of art and the industry of religious imagery located in the building of the old Christian Art. A must-visit, surprising and original.
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Positive experience: A museum where you can see the process of making religious images and figures from Catalan festive popular culture
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Positive experience: A very complete museum. Besides all the religious iconography, they have a visiting workshop and a good assortment of paintings. They keep hundreds of molds of figures of saints.
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Positive experience: To all the people interested in religious art, there is a great exhibition and there are also workshops where on weekdays you can see their design and setup.
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Positive experience: Very beautiful nativity scene exhibition. Very well cared for.
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Fantastic experience: If you have to go ... !!
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Positive experience: For Christians, it's fine
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Fantastic experience: A very beautiful and interesting place worth visiting.
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Fantastic experience: It is a place you cannot leave Olot without having seen it
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Fantastic experience: A beautiful museum for lovers of wood carving and sculptures. A great reception and explanation.

Fantastic experience: Recommended museum
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Positive experience: Good feelings.. But it lacks information (names of the saints for example)
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Fantastic experience: Historic, family-oriented and notable.
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Fantastic experience: A museum that keeps its history alive
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Positive experience: Very interesting!! Learning how they worked with cardboard to make it resemble marble or other materials has been very instructive. The attention from the staff was exquisite. We will return
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Positive experience: Very interesting to learn about the work behind each creation. Very well set up and easy to interpret. Olot has a large part of its history linked to imagery.
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Positive experience: It's amazing, it's worth going
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Positive experience: A very comprehensive museum. They attended to us very kindly.
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Positive experience: Picturesque place of religious imagery
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Positive experience: A good attention from the reception staff. Adequate information about the history of religious images from a certain era.
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Positive experience: Very interesting and curious.
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Positive experience: Very interesting
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Fantastic experience: Excellent attention from the person in charge, absolutely interesting place of sacred art imagery, educational.
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Fantastic experience: Beautiful museum, where one can see the entire history of Western culture, from the perspective of the construction of religious imagery. Additionally, there are temporary exhibitions dedicated to different themes. From Monday to Friday, you can visit the area where artists work on the construction of imagery, day by day.
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Fantastic experience: Saints or more saints... fantastic if you coincide with the workers of the workshop... for holidays they take holidays.
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Positive experience: Cool
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Positive experience: Original museum, explains the making of the statues that we see in the churches.
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Fantastic experience: Incredible.

Positive experience: A very interesting museum!
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Positive experience: It is curious all the industry that is behind the imagery
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting visit to do with kids. You can see the process of how the figures are made and if you go during the week, you can see the artisans at work.
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Fantastic experience: Museum dedicated to the manufacturing of typical religious images from the city of Olot.
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Fantastic experience: It's a very beautiful special place and you learn things you would never have imagined
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Fantastic experience: Unique museum in Spain, dedicated to imagery. You can see the production process of any religious image, and its history.
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Fantastic experience: History of the saints of Olot
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Fantastic experience: A genuine surprise that we did not expect from the name. There are not just 'saints', in fact, there are none: it is a museum-factory of religious imagery (saints) but also of giants and big heads for the city festivals. Forget about religious topics and learn a bit about the ancient craft of creating carvings.
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Positive experience: A good museum of saints
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Fantastic experience: A great museum to learn how religious imagery is made
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