This Museum has become the most important Ethnographic Museum de Las Vegas del Guadiana, for the variety of its pieces and the good and didactic distribution of them. The visitor's attention is drawn to the excellent adaptation that has been made to the building and its premises to organize a tour of them, perfectly separating the trades and achieving an attractive view of what were once common jobs and tasks among the Extremaduran population.
The Museum headquarters building was acquired by the City Council and belonged to Los Counts of Campos de Orellana, dates from the early twentieth century, its stately architecture with eclectic elements is a magnificent support to contain a collection of some 2000 pieces representative of the uses, customs and traditions of Don Benito and his region, since the end of the nineteenth century.
Through its two floors the Museum shows the living and working environments of a rural society that coexist with other small artisans and merchants and with those of an incipient bourgeoisie.
On the ground floor there are 28 rooms and offices and on the upper floor 6 showrooms and various rooms for storage and restoration of pieces. On the ground floor there is a drugstore, barbershop, kitchen, printing press, shoe store, tailor shop, cardboard horse construction workshop, school, Matanzas portal, cellar, bedroom, living room, medical consultations, office, grocery store, sacred art and the rooms dedicated to housing the Torre Isunza sculptures and clothing.
And on the upper floor there are spaces dedicated to agricultural tools, livestock, fishing, pastoral culture, home agricultural industries (beekeeping, cheese factory), and the various trades (blacksmith, cutter, carpentry, loom, rope, stonemason, surveyor, tinsmith) , also part of constructions and buildings, such as a mud wall and a roll floor as the old pipes of the houses in our area were paved, as well as a room where the offices of the old Agrarian Chambers are reconstructed, and other intended for music and photography.
The variety of its pieces and their excellent conservation stand out, as well as the organization that has been made of them, perfectly separating the different trades, recreating their original environment as much as possible.
It is intended to combine the different facets in the characteristic work system of the traditional Extremadura, simple, comprehensive, creative and artisan, trying to form coherent sets of pieces, both for their balance and for their conservation and research and study. An attempt has been made to follow a didactic criterion, so that each room or set of some of them contains a specific and determined facet of Don Benito's daily life.
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