Reus owes its Museum primarily to Salvador Vilaseca Anguera (1896-1975), a doctor and prehistorian who assembled a very important collection, consisting of archaeological and ethnographic materials and objects representative of the history and institutions of the city and its region, promoting the creation of the first Municipal Museum, which was created in 1933.Physician and prehistorian. He was born in Reus on April 17, 1896. His paternal family had a shoemaker's workshop in their manor house, number 51 in the Raval de Santa Anna. He was the only child of Josep Vilaseca Padrol (1860-1950) and Teresa Anguera Cochs (1873-1943). He applied himself with great profit to the studies carried out in his native city, at the school of teacher Francesc Cros Roig and at the General and Technical Institute, and, later, at the universities of Madrid and Barcelona. He was excluded, due to illness, from military service (1917 levy).