CaixaForum Girona welcomes more than 71,000 visitors during 2023, 5.1% more than the previous year

2024-01-03 07:30:00

The “la Caixa” Foundation took stock this Tuesday of attendance at its centers and its cultural and scientific exhibitions during 2023. A total of 4,349,926 visitors filled the centers CaixaForum and the CosmoCaixa Science Museumand 3,807,567, the traveling exhibitions promoted by the ”la Caixa” Foundation in 73 cities throughout Spain during this last year, which represents a global increase of 13.19% compared to the previous year.

CaixaForum Girona has welcomed a total of 71,082 visitors during 2023, 5.1% more than in 2022, when the center received 67,632 visitors. The most viewed exhibition has been Talking Brains. Scheduled to talk, with 22,365 visitors who were able to delve into the brain from the point of view of language, in a fascinating journey through the lenses of neuroscience, biology and evolution. The second show with the highest attendance was Homo Ludens Video games to understand the presentwhich will remain valid until February 18 and which already has 11,113 visitors.

Regarding the total of the centers of Catalonia (CaixaForum Barcelona, ​​CosmoCaixa Science Museum, CaixaForum Girona, CaixaForum Lleida, CaixaForum Tarragona and CaixaForum Macaya), in 2023 they have received 2,044,704 visitors.

The first installation of the Talking Brains exhibition. Programmed to speak allowed to see and experience the diversity of the world’s languages “la Caixa” Foundation

2023: The network of centers, in figures

In total, 8,157,493 people have visited the cultural proposals of the “la Caixa” Foundation; in the centres, 4,349,926, and traveling exhibitions, 3,807,567. By centre, the CosmoCaixa Science Museum has received 1,266,989 visitors; CaixaForum Barcelona, ​​483,852; CaixaForum Madrid, 655,422; CaixaForum Valencia, 899,339; CaixaForum Zaragoza, 242,357; CaixaForum Seville, 324,495; CaixaForum Palma, 183,609; CaixaForum Girona, 71,082; CaixaForum Lleida, 93,038; CaixaForum Tarragona, 82,210 and CaixaForum Macaya, 47,533.

The Deputy Director General of the ”la Caixa” Foundation, Elisa Duran, has made a positive assessment of the 2023 data from the network of centers: “We are very satisfied with the audience indicators for this edition. Year after year it is shown that culture and science continue to attract thousands of visitors to our CaixaForum centres, the CosmoCaixa Science Museum and the traveling exhibitions. A 2024 awaits us loaded with new experiences and a great variety of proposals and disciplines whose purpose is to promote integration and social cohesion through culture».

The CaixaForum network has presented for the current year 34 exhibition titles that can be visited at the CaixaForum centers and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum, and that will travel to more than 80 cities in Spain and Portugal. Specifically, there are 10 premieres, among which the exhibitions stand out Revered and feared. Feminine power in art and beliefs, Art and nature. A century of biomorphism, Dinosaurs of Patagonia i Interior Berlanga. The season runs under the motto “We grow in culture” to offer the public windows that allow them to dive into the past, live the present and also address the future.

CaixaForum Girona schedule for 2024

The center will exhibit Print3D. Reprint reality, which delves into the way in which this eminently collaborative technology has begun to be applied in very different fields, from medicine to art or construction, to enable productions with personalized designs and unthinkable scales and sizes up to years ago. (From March 21 to August 25, 2024)

Until February 18, Man playing. Video games to understand the present will continue to turn CaixaForum Girona into a great space to reflect on video games as one of the most significant cultural manifestations of contemporary human beings.