Sección de Etnología del Museo de Zaragoza

About the museum

The Ethnology Section of the Museo de Zaragoza occupies the Casa Ansotana, in the Parque Grande José Antonio Labordeta. In 1956 a project was launched to build five buildings representing Aragonese vernacular architecture, but only two were built: the Casa Ansotana, devoted to ethnology, and the Casa de Albarracín, which houses ceramics. The current building dates from 1955 and was designed by the architect Alejandro Allanegui. An earlier Casa Ansotana had been opened in 1924 in the former Museo Comercial, and the Cativiela family played a prominent role in its creation.

The section brings together objects of domestic life from the Aragonese Pyrenean valleys, especially the valleys of Hecho and Ansó. Traditional costume, jewellery, tools and everyday utensils are on display, and the ground floor recreates the rooms of a Pyrenean house from the late 19th century.

After a refurbishment, the section reopened to the public in 2010. Some years later it was closed for a time for conservation work on the building and the collections, including the treatment of wooden objects, and it reopened in 2021 with an exhibition devoted to Pedro Cativiela López and his family's legacy.

Highlights

• Traditional costume from the Hecho and Ansó valleys
• Domestic settings of a late 19th-century Pyrenean house
• Collection of traditional jewellery
• Tools and utensils of everyday life
• Cativiela legacy

Permanent exhibition

• Exposición permanente de etnología – Traditional costume, jewellery and utensils from the Hecho and Ansó valleys in the Pyrenees, with re-created domestic spaces of a Pyrenean house.

Operated by

Gobierno de Aragón (titularidad del Ministerio de Cultura)

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Admission is free.

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