CIRCUSLAND, the International Circus Palace

About

250 years of Circus through an archive of reference The Foundation guards one of the world’s largest collections of circus items, in which tens of thousands of items illustrate the 250 years of history of the circus: engravings, costumes, posters, photographs, stamps, postcards, artists’ materials, autographs, books, programes, porcelain, sculptures, and much more. The most notable treasures of the collection include the world’s largest miniature circus (a scale model of the great German Gleich circus), the archive of large-format 20th-century posters of the lithographer Fernández-Ardavín, the largest stamp collection of circus themes, three hundred antique engravings, a library with over 4,000 titles, the costumes of famous performers, the press file of Ramon Cardona and the complete archives of renowned photographers like Álvaro Villar, Josep Vinyes or Alberto Oller.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 1 hour 30 minutes