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Museum of la Tècnica de l'Empordà

Figueres, Alt Empordà, Girona

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Museum of la Tècnica de l'Empordà

Monument · Figueres, Alt Empordà, Girona

Museum born from the private collection of Pere Padrosa, with typewriters, sewing machines and other objects of the industrial revolution, located in Figueres. Padrosa began his collection in 1979 by acquiring a portable Erika typewriter from 1910, to which he went on adding sewing machines, clocks, telephones and stoves. The museum, opened on 27 June 2004, brings together more than sixteen thousand pieces from the second Industrial Revolution, of which about three thousand are on display; among the most valuable are the typewriters and sewing machines, and the Malling-Hansen writing ball stands out, considered the first typewriter in Europe.

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