Museo del Carro y Aperos de Labranza
Ethnographic museum in Tomelloso with farm implements, traditional settings and a large dry-stone bombo.
Have only individual sections read aloud
About the museum
The Museo del Carro y Aperos de Labranza arose from a municipal initiative of the 1960s to gather the most representative items of the farming tasks and everyday life of Tomelloso's ancestors. In 1968 the town council commissioned the dry-stone master Pablo Moreno to build a bombo (a dry-stone dome), which was inaugurated on 20 October 1970 and built with more than two million stones laid without mortar.
The Asociación de Amigos del Museo del Carro (Friends of the Cart Museum Association) has enriched the collections with disinterested donations. Since 1996 a school-workshop project has operated on the same site, which has expanded the facilities and built, among other things, a cocinilla manchega (a traditional La Mancha kitchen).
The exhibition is arranged in settings that recreate the agricultural and wine-making past of the comarca: the forge, the carpentry workshop, the farm implements, the threshing floor (era), the cellar (bodega), the cave and the jaraíz, the cocinilla and the bombo. Carts, tools, machinery, graphic documents and photographs help show how the land was worked and how wine was made in La Mancha.
Highlights
- Dry-stone bombo built with more than 2,000,000 stones
- Recreated settings: forge, carpentry workshop, threshing floor, cellar, cave and jaraíz
- Carts, farm implements and traditional agricultural machinery
- Cocinilla manchega and other spaces of rural life
- Free admission
Permanent exhibition
- Ambientes de la vida rural y bombo de piedra seca – A tour through the forge, carpentry workshop, farm implements, threshing floor, cellar, cave and jaraíz, the cocinilla and the Manchego bombo.
- Operated by
- Ayuntamiento de Tomelloso
- Visitors per year
- approx. 9,069 (2025)
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
Free admission.
Accessibility
The museum hasn’t published any information on this.
Kids & families
The museum hasn’t published any information on this.
Getting there & parking
The museum hasn’t published any information on this.
Amenities & dining
The museum has an audio guide at the torno de sacar tierra (earth-lifting winch).
Events & venue rental
The museum hasn’t published any information on this.
Plan your visit
| Audio guide | yes |
|---|---|
| Good to know | Local tour operators include the museum in their guided tours of Tomelloso. |
