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Museo Ibarraundi

Municipal museum in a 15th-century palace with rooms on the history, ethnography and fossils of the Leintz valley.

Opening hoursAdmission €3

About the museum

The Eskoriatza museum was founded around 1986 as the Museo Escuela, a room set up in the town hall to complement the teaching of history at the Luis Ezeiza school. Later the town council acquired the Ibarraundi palace and, in 2005, the Museo Escuela became the Museo Ibarraundi, which keeps the name of the historic building.

The building is thought to date from the mid-15th century and to have belonged to the Galartza family. The oldest documents describe it as a palace or tower house, although archaeological studies indicate that it was mostly built in the 16th century. Between the 18th and 21st centuries it was used as a caserío (farmhouse) and, for part of that time, as a palace.

The exhibition is divided into four areas: an audiovisual room on the Leintz valley and the origins of its villages in the Middle Ages; a history display from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age, with the emblematic pieces from Axtroki and the Atxorrotx castle; an ethnography exhibition arranged in thematic corners (flax, iron, school, kitchen and beliefs); and, since 2016, an ammonite exhibition with some seventy specimens found in Mutriku.

Highlights

Mid-15th-century palace converted into a museum
Audiovisual room on the Leintz valley in the Middle Ages
Pieces from Axtroki, from the Iron Age, and the Atxorrotx castle
Local ethnography: flax, iron, school, kitchen and beliefs
Exhibition of some 70 ammonites found in Mutriku

Permanent exhibitions

Sala Leintz – Audiovisual presentation on the Leintz valley, the origin of its villages in the Middle Ages, and the coexistence and conflicts between the valley's families.
Exposición de historia – Tour of prehistory from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age with attention to the local setting, with the pieces from Axtroki and the Atxorrotx castle as emblematic elements.
Exposición de etnografía y de amonites – Local objects in thematic corners on flax, iron, school, kitchen and beliefs, and an exhibition of some 70 ammonites from Mutriku, opened in 2016.

Founded: 1986
Operated by: Ayuntamiento de Eskoriatza

Admission & discounts

Adults	€3
Reduced	€1.50People aged 65 or over and young people aged 7 to 18 (50% discount)
Children & teens	€1.50free up to age 6 · Ages 7 to 18, 50% discount.
Seniors	€1.5050% discount from age 65.
Groups (6+ people)	€2.40 per person20% discount for groups of 6 or more people.

The €3 ticket is combined for the Museo Ibarraundi and the Zubiate lime kiln. Free admission for children under 7, school groups of under-16s, local groups and visits under the Agenda 21 programme; other school groups pay half.