Museo de Alfarería de Agost

About the museum

The museum occupies a former ceramics factory that Severino Torregrosa opened in 1902 and that closed in 1975. Ilse Schütz founded the museum in 1981, and her collection of almost 2,000 ceramic pieces, donated in 2016, forms the basis of the current holdings.

The building was refurbished between 2007 and 2014, and the museum reopened in 2016, adapted to the needs of a modern museum. Today it holds more than 4,500 objects, mainly pottery, though it also includes ethnological pieces from Agost and other regions of Spain.

The rooms present the wide collection of everyday objects made in Agost over the last two centuries and the process of making ceramics. The route includes the entrance to a “horno árabe” (Arab kiln), the area of potters’ wheels and the clay settling pools. The museum also has a temporary exhibition room, a specialised library of more than 4,000 volumes, which is still being catalogued and is not freely accessible, and a multi-purpose room.

Highlights

• Entrance to an Arab ceramics kiln
• Potters’ wheels area and clay settling pools
• Schütz collection with almost 2,000 ceramic pieces
• Everyday objects made in Agost over two centuries
• Shop with the traditional pottery collection “Pieza del Año”

Permanent exhibition

• Exposición permanente de alfarería de Agost – Tour of the history of pottery in Agost with everyday objects from the last two centuries, an Arab kiln, potters’ wheels and the clay settling pools.

Founded

1981

Operated by

Ayuntamiento de Agost

Admission & discounts

Pets enter free: the museum admits dogs.

Accessibility

• Partially wheelchair accessible
• Elevator
• Accessible restroom
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials
• Audio description: no information

The museum is in a rehabilitated historic building and not all spaces are accessible. Street-level entrance, a route recommended for people with reduced mobility, ramps on the first floor and at the exit to the terrace and the educational workshop, lifts to the first and second floors, and accessible toilets on the ground floor and second floor. There are easy-read texts in the temporary exhibitions and at the clay settling pools, audiovisuals subtitled in several languages, and interpretation in Spanish Sign Language via QR codes.

Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

Educational workshops for schoolchildren, adapted to the needs of each group.

Getting there & parking

By car on the A-31 motorway: from Novelda, take the CV-820 for 11 km; from Alicante, take the A-7 to the turn-off for Agost and then the CV-820 for 8 km. Once in Agost, follow Avenida del Consell Valencià to the junction with Calle Monforte; the museum is on the Plaça de les Peones.

Amenities & dining

• Museum shop

The shop sells the Traditional Pottery Collection (the Pieces of the Year) by craftspeople from Agost, and pieces from other craft workshops.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

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