Permanent Exhibition
The Roots.
The Birth of a Nation.
Our Sea.
On the Edge of the Empire.
A Steam-powered Nation.
The Electric Years.
Defeat and Recovery
The Long Postwar Period
Economic Growth During the 1960s
Land of Work and Tenacity
Opposition to Franco
Self-Government, The Generalitat, The Statute.
Retrat de la Catalunya contemporània (1980-2007)
Defeat and Recovery
Land of Work and Tenacity
 Self-Government, The Generalitat, The Statute.
Opposition to Franco

From 1959 the anti-Franco opposition movement began to leave the isolation in which it had been placed and became a movement which embraced growing sectors of society. The new generations who had not lived through the civil war and the changes being experienced by the world at large and Catalan society produced a broad-based movement, which included men and women from a variety backgrounds who demanded a return to liberty, democracy and self-government. Resistance to the régime provoked a hardening of political attitudes. In the final years, when the decline of Francoism was clear to all, the régime intensified the repression.

A Time of Waiting, a Time of Hope
Between Resistance and Cultural Normality
Workers, Students and Residents
Clandestine Political Opposition
The Assembly of Catalonia

1959. Campaign against Luís Martínez de Galinsoga, then director of La Vanguardia Española (The Spanish Vanguard daily newspaper).
Approval of the Ley de Orden Público (Public Order Law).
1960. Act of civil disobediance at the Palau de la Música Catalana (Palace of Catalan Music). Jordi Pujol and Francesc Pizón are imprisoned.
Approval of the Ley de Bandidaje y Terrorismo (Law on Banditry and Terrorism).
1961. Founding of the Omnium Cultural (group providing literary awards and grants for teaching in Catalan).
1962. Workers' strikes in various places, where the first Comissions Obreres de Catalunya (CCOO - Workers’ Commissions) become known.
First Nova Canço (New Song) record.
1963. Dom Aureli M. Escarré, abbot of Montserrat, is obliged to go into exile following statements he made to the French newspaper Le Monde.
1966. Beginning of the “Volem bisbes catalans” (We want Catalan bishops) campaign.
Founding of the Sindicat Democratic d'Estudiants de la Universitat de Barcelona (SDEUB - Democratic Students’ Union of the University of Barcelona).
Demonstration by 130 clergymen is broken up harshly.
1969. State of emergency declared.
First Universitat Catalana d'Estiu (Catalan Summer University) at Prada de Conflent.
Founding of the Coordinadora de Forces Polítiques de Catalunya (CFPC - Coordination Committee of Political Forces of Catalonia).
1970. Wave of protest against the Burgos Trial.
1971. Strike at SEAT. One worker dies.
Assemblea de Catalunya (Assembly of Catalonia) is formed.
1973. Strike at the Besòs power station. One worker dies.
1974. Salvador Puig i Antich is executed.
Founding of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC - Democratic Convergence of Catalonia) and the Regrupament Socialista Democràtic de Catalunya (RSDC - Democratic Socialist Group of Catalonia).
Founding of the Unió de Pagesos (UP - Farmer and Farm Workers' Union).
1975. Founding of the Congrés de Cultura Catalana (Catalan Culture Congress).
Franco dies. The end of the dictatorship.


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