Museo Etnográfico «El hombre y el campo»

About the museum

The museum is in San Vicente de Toranzo, in the Toranzo valley (municipality of Corvera de Toranzo), and shows the relationship between people and the land through the trades and everyday customs of rural life. It covers about 700 m² across two floors and holds more than 10,000 items, including utensils, farm implements and tools, together with models, photographs and drawings.

The route is organised into thematic areas. Some are devoted to farm and livestock work (carts, yokes, ploughs and farming implements, mowers, ironwork and forge, beekeeping), others to trades and materials (timber processing, carpentry and bowls, wool, linen and hemp, weights and measures), and others to everyday life and popular culture (musical instruments, children's games, ice cream and wafers, cheese and butter, Pasiega cooking, mythology and Pasiega cabins, regional costumes).

Among the collections are 19 carts from Cantabria, the Pasiega valleys and other regions of Spain, and 156 yokes from the region and from countries such as France, Cuba, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Portugal, which the museum presents as the largest collection of its kind in the world. Another of its treasures is a Pasiega kitchen, moved complete from a cabin, with its bed, chimney and utensils. In 2008 the museum received the Club de los Museos award for keeping alive the memory of the relationship between people and the land, especially among children and young people.

Highlights

• More than 10,000 items across 700 m² and two floors
• 156 yokes, which the museum presents as the largest collection in the world
• 19 carts from Cantabria, the Pasiega valleys and other regions
• Pasiega kitchen moved complete from a cabin
• Areas on ironwork, beekeeping, wool and linen, cheese and butter, children's games and regional costumes

Permanent exhibition

• Colección permanente – More than 10,000 items arranged in thematic areas on farm and livestock work, traditional trades and everyday rural life.

Founded

1997

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Getting there & parking

The museum is in San Vicente de Toranzo, beside the N-623 road. Coming from Santander, past the centre of the village in the direction of Burgos, turn right at the restaurant-apartments El Cazador, take the first street after the restaurant and continue for about 150 metres; the building, with the word “MUSEO” on its facade, is on the right. Coming from Burgos, turn left at the same restaurant.

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