Museu de la Pauma

About the museum

The Centre de Desenvolupament Rural – Museu de la Pauma in Mas de Barberans opened in May 2010 as a space to promote actions that favour and diversify local and regional economic development, and to highlight a part of its own ethnological heritage: palm work (pauma, the dwarf palm or palmito).

The museum has two permanent exhibition rooms. One explains the process of working palm from the plant to the finished piece; the other widens the territorial scope to all the villages of the Parque Natural dels Ports and reports on the social aspects of this activity. An audiovisual, “La Bruixa Palmira”, completes the visit, and the “Racó de les Fibres” is an educational space devoted to the vegetable fibres that humanity has used for various purposes, such as dye plants or basketry.

The centre includes the group of practising craftswomen that emerged from the training courses: they teach the workshops, give craft demonstrations and sell pieces in the museum shop. In addition to its own and temporary exhibitions, the museum offers plaiting workshops adapted to different ages, consultation services, loans of pieces and of the photographic archive, and it organises the monographic fibre fair on the first weekend of August.

Highlights

• Two permanent rooms on palm work, from the plant to the finished piece
• “La Bruixa Palmira” audiovisual
• “Racó de les Fibres”, an educational space on vegetable fibres
• Plaiting workshops and craft demonstrations by craftswomen
• Shop with palm craft pieces

Permanent exhibitions

• Del palmito a la pieza terminada – Permanent room explaining the process of working palm, from the plant to the finished object.
• La palma en los pueblos de los Ports – Room widening the scope to all the villages of the Parque Natural dels Ports and reporting on the social aspects of the activity.
• Racó de les Fibres – Educational space on the vegetable fibres used by humanity for various purposes, with palm as the star.

Founded

2010

Operated by

Centre de Desenvolupament Rural Museu de la Pauma

Admission & discounts

Free admission for children under 5, people registered in Mas de Barberans and people with disabilities.

Accessibility

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

According to the Generalitat's Visitmuseum listing, all areas are suitable for wheelchair users. The texts are translated into Spanish and English.

Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

Plaiting workshops adapted to different ages and levels; the audiovisual “La Bruixa Palmira” and the Racó de les Fibres are educational resources.

Getting there & parking

Mas de Barberans is in the Montsià region (Tarragona), about 25 km from Teruel and Castellón. From the north, take the C-12 to Tortosa and then the T-3421; from Tarragona or Barcelona, leave the motorway at Tortosa/L’Aldea or Amposta; from the south, approach via Ulldecona, Sant Rafel del Riu and La Sénia.

Amenities & dining

• Museum shop

Museum shop with palm craft pieces and custom orders.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

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