Circusland Besalú

An exhibition for dreaming and learning

Circusland aims to invite its visitors to take a journey through the arts of the circus and its origins, history and evolution. Arranged over three floors, the various halls explain to the visitors the 250-year history of the circus by way of a journey through the various disciplines of the ring: acrobats, balancing acts, magicians, jugglers, trapeze artists… An attractive presentation will welcome visitors and transportthem into a magical world through the halls of the former Benedictinemonastery of Sant Pere, from the thousand-year-old Chinese acrobatics to the Cirque du Soleil, not forgetting the jesters of the Middle Ages, the predecessors of today’s jugglers.

The assembly of the exhibition will follow the principles of specialist stage designers. Far from being a collector’s museum dominated by objects and their quantity, at Circusland the items will articulate a discourse with different levels of reading according to the age, origin or cultural knowledge of each individual visitor.