Leisure
ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM OF VALENCIA DE ALCÁNTARA
The ethnographic museum is located next to the Tourist Office.
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- Museo Etnográfico de Valencia de Alcántara
Location and Contact:
- Tel.:927582184
- Opening times
Tuesday to Friday 10am-2pm and 4pm-6.30pm (winter) and 5pm-7.30pm (summer, except July, closed).
Monday, Saturday and Sunday 10am-2pm.
- Fee
Free.
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The ethnographic museum is located next to the Tourist Office.
Housed in the upper gallery of the old Poor Clares convent of Santa Ana, which was reformed as a school in 1928 (the cells were turned into classrooms), the Ethnographic Museum and Tourist Office was opened on 31 October 2008.
It has 8 rooms: the first room pays homage to the days when the convent was a school, the Colegio General Navarro y Alonso de Celada, and includes photographs, school material, books and documents from its inauguration or courtesy of the school board.
Another room comprises a local printer’s, Imprenta Ávila, with materials and machines courtesy of the descendants of their owners.
Room 3: Room 1 showcases the traditional festivals held in Valencia de Alcántara: Los Mayos, the May Cross and the Day of Saint Isodore the Labourer, and includes regional costumes and instruments used in such festivities.
Room 4 is devoted to traditional cooking and to a cocina de matanza, where pork was processed after slaughter, with utensils and tools courtesy of locals.
Room 5 celebrates ancient crafts, especially farming, but also a forge and a carpentry workshop. All materials were kindly donated by locals.
Room 6 represents a bedroom and sewing room in a typical early 20th century house.
Room 7 includes a sample of posters from the Town Archive and old photographs of cultural events and festivities in the town in the first half of the 20th century.
Room 8 represent a cinema with the materials of the old Luis Rivera Cinema, courtesy of its owner.
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- Construction:
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- Public building
- Name:
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- Local museum
Accessibility:
- Disabled access
- Accessible elevator
- Toilet with disabled access
Theme:
- Leisure
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