Museo Ángel Orensanz y Artes del Serrablo

About the museum

The museum is in El Puente de Sabiñánigo (Huesca), in the Casa Batanero, a typical dwelling of the 19th-century Aragonese Pyrenees. Sabiñánigo City Council created it at a plenary session in January 1978, and it opened in August 1979. It grew out of two founding collections: that of the sculptor Ángel Orensanz, who donated the house and a set of his works, and that of the association Amigos de Serrablo, with a broad display of popular crafts from the district.

The idea of a “living museum” guides its work. The building itself, of some 680 square metres over three floors, functions almost as an ecomuseum: it is the starting point for trails through the landscape and abandoned villages of the area and for the Serrablo church route, and it even has an ethnobotanical garden. Over the years it has been extended with a second building, joined to the first by an overhang.

Its collections cover farming and pastoral life, textiles, childhood, folk medicine, the traditional music of the Pyrenees, popular religiosity, vernacular architecture and the ethnological drawings of Julio Gavín. There is also a room devoted to the work of Ángel Orensanz, others dedicated to the ethnologists Julio Caro Baroja and Antonio Beltrán, and a specialised library named after Rafael Andolz.

Highlights

• Casa Batanero, a Pyrenean house of the 19th century
• Kitchen, textile room and rooms of the traditional house with their utensils
• Ethnological drawings by Julio Gavín
• Room devoted to the work of the sculptor Ángel Orensanz
• Sections on folk medicine, traditional music and popular religiosity
• Ethnobotanical garden

Permanent exhibitions

• Colección etnológica de Serrablo – Pyrenean house with utensils, tools and furniture of rural life in Serrablo, with sections on farming, pastoralism, textiles, childhood, folk medicine, music and popular religiosity.
• Dibujo etnológico de Julio Gavín y arquitectura popular – Second building of the museum, with the ethnological drawings of Julio Gavín and rooms on popular religiosity and the traditional architecture of the Pyrenees.
• Obra de Ángel Orensanz – Room with sculptures by the artist who donated the house and drove the creation of the museum.

Founded

1978

Operated by

Ayuntamiento de Sabiñánigo

Admission & discounts

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Accessibility

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Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

The museum runs workshops for girls and boys aged 6 to 12, with prior registration by email or telephone, and has a section dedicated to childhood.

Getting there & parking

The museum is in El Puente de Sabiñánigo and is the starting point (kilometre 0) for trails in the area and for the Serrablo church route.

Amenities & dining

• Museum shop

Museum shop.

Events & venue rental

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