The Cork Museum

The Cork Museum of Palafrugell, Spain, was created in 1972 in order to acquire, conserve, interpret and value the heritage around the cork industry in Catalonia. The cork industry has been influenced the landscape, the life and the identity of this Catalan area. The Cork Museum is part of the Costa Brava Museum Network and the Network of Local Museums of Catalonia in the demarcation of Girona.
The museum is located in a modernist factory around a small cork forest. The exhibition consists of an audiovisual, a journey from the forest to work at the factory to obtain plugs, discs, paper and agglomerate, a space to experiment and a space for participation.