Museo de la Miel y las Abejas Rancho Cortesano

About the museum

The Museo de la Miel y las Abejas is part of Rancho Cortesano, a family beekeeping business in the countryside around Jerez that has been working with bees for some thirty years. The company looks after around 2,000 hives spread across some forty apiaries in the lowlands, the sierra and the hills of the province of Cádiz, and produces organic honey bearing the quality mark of the Parques Naturales de Andalucía and organic certification. It has won five first prizes in the Andalusian honey competition.

The museum explains the whole honey-making process, the therapeutic uses of hive products and how bees organise their colony. A guide leads the visit in the group's language and adapts the content to visitors. The route allows visitors to see a hive without bees, to watch how wax, pollen and royal jelly are made, and to taste honeys and other hive products.

The estate completes the visit with apiaries that can be toured dressed as a beekeeper, workshops on wax, pottery and seasonal fruit, a shop selling honeys, meloja (honeydew honey), pollen, propolis, soaps and natural cosmetics, and an organic restaurant. There are outdoor activities every weekend.

Highlights

• Guided visit in the group's language
• Hive without bees and explanation of wax, pollen and royal jelly
• Tasting of honeys and hive products
• Tour of the apiaries dressed as a beekeeper
• Workshops for children and families at weekends

Permanent exhibition

• Museo de la miel y las abejas – Exhibition on honey production, the uses of hive products and how the bee colony is organised.

Operated by

Rancho Cortesano (apicultura ecológica familiar)

Admission & discounts

The ranch's website does not publish the price of the museum visit; please ask by telephone.

Accessibility

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations
• Kids’ birthday parties

Workshops for children and families at weekends (for example pottery and wax), visits for schools and birthday celebrations.

Getting there & parking

The ranch is about 15 km from Jerez, on the Cortes road (A-2003), at the turn-off to El Torno (CA-3111), kilometre 2.

Amenities & dining

• Restaurant
• Museum shop

Organic restaurant with online booking and a shop selling honeys, meloja, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, soaps and natural cosmetics.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

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