'Caring, Innovating, Advancing. 625 Years of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau' Exhibition
15 October 2026 – 17 December 2026 · 11:00
Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya, el Raval, Ciutat Vella
The Biblioteca de Catalunya opens the exhibition "Caring, Innovating, Advancing. 625 Years of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau", curated by historian and archivist Reis Fontanals. The opening takes place on Thursday 15 October 2026 at 12 noon in the library's Sala de la Caritat, with the curator Reis Fontanals, the director of the Biblioteca de Catalunya, Eugènia Serra, and the director of the Hospital de Sant Pau, Dr Adrià Comella. The curator will then lead a guided tour of the exhibition in the library's exhibition hall. The exhibition traces the history of the Hospital through the medical advances applied there and the professionals who worked there, making it the true backbone of healthcare and medical training in Catalonia for more than six centuries. It has been produced with the collaboration of the Hospital de Sant Pau as part of the institution's 625th anniversary. The Hospital de la Santa Creu was founded in 1401 as Barcelona's main healthcare centre, in the Gothic building that now houses the Biblioteca de Catalunya. From then until today, across the various buildings it has occupied, the Hospital's history is one of medicine constantly adapting to the…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 2 November 2026