Antzasti

About the museum

Antzasti is a private cultural project of the Antzasti Cultural Association of Dima, a non-profit organisation that decided to show the public ethnographic collections on the traditional rural life of Arratia and on the urban modernity of Bilbao. For years, restoration, collection, research and cataloguing work was carried out to recreate the atmosphere of the period as faithfully as possible. According to the house itself, the name means “place of blackthorns and apple trees”.

The museum occupies a farmhouse of the typical Arratia type: the ground floor housed the stable and the farm tools, above it was the living quarters, with the hayloft at the back, and on the top floor the ganbara, where the harvest was stored and dried. The house is set up as a family home in which two worlds of the late 19th and early 20th centuries are represented: the rural dwelling, furnished as a place that was lived in, and the modern urban dwelling in Bilbao. Each room of the farmhouse has its counterpart in the city, so that a farmhouse room is set against an urban dining room, and an open-hearth kitchen against one with a sheet-metal cooking range.

The visit, always guided, follows the cultural and social change brought by the Industrial Revolution, with the Arratia tramway as the common thread between the traditional farmhouse and the Belle Époque atmosphere of the Teatro Arriaga. The Artaun neighbourhood, at 350 metres above sea level, borders the Urkiola Natural Park, faces towards the Gorbea one, and has kept its landscape almost intact.

Highlights

• Arratia farmhouse with stable, living quarters and ganbara
• Contrast between a farmhouse room and a Bilbao urban dining room
• Open-hearth kitchen versus sheet-metal cooking range
• Belle Époque atmosphere of Bilbao, with the Teatro Arriaga as the destination of the tour
• Guided tour with tasting of local products (optional)
• Natural surroundings next to the Urkiola and Gorbea parks

Permanent exhibition

• Del caserío arratiano a la casa burguesa bilbaína – Guided tour of the traditional rural house of Arratia and its urban counterpart, a modern house in Bilbao from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with objects from both worlds.

Operated by

Asociación Cultural Antzasti de Dima

Admission & discounts

Guided tour: €8.50 from 12 years and €4.50 from 6 to 11 years; children under 6 enter free.

Accessibility

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Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

From Bilbao, the car journey takes 30 to 40 minutes: motorway A-8 towards Donostia-San Sebastián, exit 105 (Galdakao Hospital), road NA-240 to Dima and then a turn to the left onto the BI-4546, about 4 km to Artaun.

Amenities & dining

Some options include a tasting of local products at the house; meals are served at restaurants in the area (Azurmendi in Artaun or Baltzola in Dima).

Events & venue rental

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