Museum

Ricard Cucurella i Soulié was born on March 1, 1927 in Vilanova i la Geltrú. With a father from Vilanova and a French mother, he always felt attracted to the world of engineering. The strong connection that he has maintained with the School began when he was a student, since he studied a master’s degree (the current professional training) and expertise in mechanics and electricity (what would be the current degrees). From there he went to the Polytechnique Institute of Grenoble, where he earned a degree in engineering at the same center where, years before, he had met his parents when they were studying.

As a teacher, Ricard Cucurella only worked at the School. He did it for almost 50 years, from 1945 to 1992, during which he was characterized by knowing how to transmit his passion for engineering to students. This sensitivity to offering complete and transversal learning to his students was one of the reasons that encouraged him to collect old scientific devices. Most of them were from the old Pirelli cable factory, of which he was also the laboratory head.

These were objects that were disused, damaged or beginning to become obsolete. When the company retired them, he fixed them and took them to the Escola to make his classes more enjoyable and understandable. A quarter of a century later, the hundred devices that he collected during that time have given shape to the current Ricard Cucurella Museum. An unmissable exhibition to learn about the evolution that engineering has experienced in the last 100 years.