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One banner in this show reads "No eren 'sus labores', eren agricultores": they weren't doing housework, they were farmers. That sets the tone for a small, free show on women in rural Catalonia, told through Rosa Pruna i Esteve, a farmer from Llerona who spoke for them for nearly four decades and led Asaja Barcelona until 2024.

You walk among cardboard cut-outs of farm women, each carrying a year of the story. In 1986, as Spain joined the European Community, Pruna became Spain's delegate to the women's committee of COPA, the European farmers' body, in Brussels. The thread is that year's EU Directive 86/613, which Spain only applied in 1995. If your grandmother's old DNI lists her job as "sus labores", this room is arguing with it.

Expect to read: the story is told in text on the cut-outs and banners. It was shown in Les Franqueses del Vallès in September. Entry is free until 15 November, and the museum stays open until 20:00 on Wednesdays.