CATICAT catalogue of musical objects

The National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (MNACTEC) has contributed 285 objects to the CATICAT collective catalogue of musical objects, an online catalogue of musical instruments held at museums and public collections in Catalonia.

The project is supported by the Department of Culture, and provides one single point of access to 4,300 instruments at 31 museums around Catalonia. Begun in 2001 and headed by the Museum of Music, CATICAT has the aim of locating, inventorying and documenting all public collections of musical instruments in the country.

The MNACTEC has contributed 285 objects to the catalogue, most of which are programmed, electrophonic or electrical, membranophones or percussion instruments. The collection also includes various musical accessories, idiophones, aerophones or wind instruments, keyboards, and chordophones or string instruments.

These musical objects mainly come from Catalonia and Spain, but also include instruments from the United States of America, Germany, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Belgium.

The process of setting up CATICAT involved photographing and documenting the MNACTEC objects to standardise their online release in the collective catalogue.

  20 June 2024