THE PLACE

La Casita-Museo constitutes a unique and different space in which magic and culture coexist. It speaks to us of an immense value, as Father Coloma wanted to make clear: human brotherhood. And it makes it possible for children and adults to get to know and get closer to this Madrilenian loved by all, generating the illusion of those who visit it.

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The CMRP welcomes all the visitors from multiple origins, national and international, families and school groups who come to meet and meet this unique character, from Madrid and universal.

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_    The Museum: “Small on the outside, big on the inside, like its owner”.

We will be able to see his family home, a large box of Huntley cookies, in which he lives together with his wife Katalina and their children Adelaida, Elvira and Adolfito; the mailbox through which boys and girls communicate with Pérez; a partial reproduction of Mouse's office in human size...

 … We will see scenes that recreate the story told by Coloma: the extraction of Bubi's tooth by the palace doctors; moment in which he, with the help of his mother the queen, writes the letter to Ratón Pérez, scenes of the meeting between the two and when he is transformed into a mouse by, in the words of Coloma, "a wonderful prodigy, that no one until today has been explained."

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We find objects belonging to Bubi such as his milk tooth, his horse Palomo or his collection of clowns and harlequins, the poetry of Gloria Fuertes, the presence of D. Jacinto Benavente and D. Benito Pérez-Galdós, the tribute to a crown...

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We will also be able to learn about other traditions in the collection and analysis of milk teeth. Characters with the same mission in other parts of the world, belonging to the same international network: Tooth Fairy (Anglo-Saxon world),

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HISTORY

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We come from the first written document in which Ratón Pérez appears as a reference and protagonist published in 1902 and written by Luis Coloma Roldán.

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 La Casita-Museo de Ratón Pérez opened its doors in 2008 at the request of the rodent itself and with such honorable permission and recognition  so that all children who want to know more about him can approach.

In 2003, the Madrid City Council, at the hands of its then mayor, Jose María Álvarez del Manzano , placed the first commemorative plaque dedicated to a character of these characteristics on the façade of the building in which, according to Luis Coloma, in his story Ratón Pérez, Ratón lived and lives at C/Arenal number 8 in Madrid.

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Shortly before, representatives of the  "Association of friends of children's and young people's books" did their honors, offering the smallest statue in the world, that of Ratón Pérez, located in the Hall of the building.

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Due to the curiosity of the public and the interest aroused, in 2011 the Casita-Museo was significantly expanded to the size it now has, thus giving space to all the objects and memories that Pérez has and that he so humbly lends to the world.

A tribute to our dear friend well deserved to "enjoy" a Museum House.

It is located on Calle del Arenal 8, in the center of Madrid, where Coloma institutionalized his residence more than 110 years ago, in the Carlos Prast Pastry Shop, inside a box of cookies.

Huntley. It couldn't be anywhere else in the world.

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It is the HEART of a large project recognized by the Madrid City Council, by means of a commemorative plaque on its façade; the only one awarded to a fictional character. “Here I lived…”

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The Prast confectionery, where RP lived, was "Provider of the Royal House" since the time of Elizabeth II. Don Carlos Prast, Jr., became Mayor of Madrid, as well as President of the Chamber of Commerce. He shared fans and tennis matches with Alfonso XIII.

SOURCE

The origin of the Pérez Mouse is found in the magical beliefs of primitive rural societies. The popular tradition goes back at least to the Middle Ages

LUIS COLOMA AND HIS STORY “RATON PÉREZ”

Luis Coloma Roldán (Jerez de la Frontera, January 9, 1851-Madrid, June 10, 1915), known as Father Coloma, was a Spanish writer, journalist and Jesuit.  Student of the Naval school, studied law at the University of Seville. He combined his work as Spiritual Advisor to the Crown and member of the Royal Academy of Language.  As an author of children's literature, he wrote, among other works, “RATÓN PÉREZ”.

At the end of the 19th century, Father Coloma was asked by the court to write a story when King Alfonso XIII fell due to the loss of one of his milk teeth at the age of 8 years. The Jesuit came up with the story of “Ratón Pérez”, starring King Buby, which was what Queen María Cristina called her son. Since then, "the secret" of where the famous rodent lived and lives has been revealed.