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Ibarraundi Museum

Eskoriatzako Museo Eskola" was created and promoted by "Aitzorrotz Etnografiko Taldea" with the support of the City Council of Eskoriatza. From its commencement in the year 1983, its main objective was the appraisal and protection of our heritage and ethnography.

We begin our journey with the first ethnographic exhibit and achieving our objective, since from then on very few did away with the objects that they had saved for centuries. The majority were restored and they have them in their house as if it were a treasure and a few gave pieces to the Museum. With these and with the purchase made by the City Council of a collection of locksmith and hardware materials, as well as two splendid wood carvings, we begin our journey.

The design of our Museum, perhaps not very orthodox in those times, where instead of "do not touch" and "silence please", we proposed that all their senses be used: not only sight but also touch, smell...even taste, using workshops and audiovisual means to understand and comprehend better our origins, our history. Today we realize that this availability offered by the Museum has been one of its attractions, not only for the youngest, but also for the adults.

In all the subjects exhibited the subject of the environment is present, as an element to which we all belong; knowing it, respecting it and protecting it is one of our goals.

In recent years we have taken a new step with the desire for tourism, taking the museum out of its four walls and extending it throughout Eskoriatza, so that the entire town is a Museum. With the help of the local authorities and other institutions, little by little our most significant heritage is being recovered: such as the palaces, churches, hermitages, mansions, megalithic monuments, forests, bridges, foundries and ethnographic elements such as kilns, sinks... restoring them, creating itineraries with signs in order to be visited.

At this time, after the acquisition by the city council of the Ibarraundi Palace from the sixteenth century, its restoration commenced. Next to it an ethnographical park will be created in which will be present the trades and handicrafts that were the base and reference.

 

Hours open:

From Tuesday to Friday: 9:00 – 14:00
Guided visits are arranged upon request

Ibarraundi Museum
Tel.: 943 71 54 53

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