Nuria Pla House Museum

This Barcelona building was both a laboratory and the home of Nuria Pla, one of the first medical graduates in Catalonia. She was also a collector of Spanish furniture, mirrors, carvings and fabrics from the 16th to 18th centuries. The museum's exceptional permanent exhibition features more than 800 original pieces of furniture, mainly from the Spanish Baroque and Renaissance periods.

Beyond her medical research and dedication to business, Nuria Pla Monseny's other great passion was art, which led her to assemble an enormous collection of furniture over the course of her life that is considered to be unique in the entire world.Art collecting was only one of Pla's many facets. She was the daughter of the prestigious doctor Ramón Pla Armengol, who dedicated his life to researching tuberculosis and opened a joint research laboratory in 1923 with his partner Joaquim Ravetllat in what is now the House Museum. When Ramón Pla was forced into exile, his daughter continued to run the Ravetllat-Pla Institute. The laboratory is still inside the house and can be visited.This space in the heart of Barcelona stands out both for its furniture and the monumental building that houses it, a former 19th-century farmhouse surrounded by three hectares of gardens. All its original architectural and decorative elements remain intact.