Ethnographic Museum

The municipal museum of Santa Eulalia de Tábara keeps the memory of work: the tools and the domestic settings people lived with in this area until only a few generations ago. Since 2024 it bears the name of its founder, Museo Etnográfico Antonio Ferrero Guerra.

Opens on request, no fixed hours · the opening is arranged in advance

Main hall of the museum, with yokes and farming tools hanging from the ceiling, display cases, chairs and a gramophone

What is there to see?

The museum was created and opened in 2001, and it brings together farming tools and domestic settings of the rural world: the house, work in the fields and the trades of the Tábara area. Yokes, collars and wooden implements hang from the ceiling of the main hall; around them are the crockery and pottery, the tools of each trade and the objects of the house, labelled by theme — kitchen, period clothing, bakery, pig slaughter, general store. Its interest is different from that of the churches: here you are not looking at stone but at the everyday life of recent generations, something that works especially well on visits with families and older people.

Shelves with decorated plates, clay jugs and kitchen vessels in the museum

Crockery and clay

Tableware, jugs and kitchen vessels from the house, set out on shelves.

Wooden yokes, pitchforks and winnowing forks hanging on a wall of the museum

Work in the fields

Yokes, pitchforks, winnowing forks and rakes, marked by use.

Bedroom recreated in the museum, with a wrought-iron bed and religious prints on the wall

The house

A bedroom with a wrought-iron bed, a bedside table and the prints on the wall.

How is a visit arranged?

There is no visiting timetable: the museum opens on request. The opening is arranged in advance on the town council information line, +34 686 70 21 03. There is no published protocol: when you call, ask how much notice is needed, who opens the museum and whether the building is accessible.

Documented chronology

11 May 2001 Foundation. According to the commemorative plaque in the museum itself, it was founded on the initiative of Antonio Ferrero Guerra and the A.M.E.C.S.E.TA. ethnographic association, with the collaboration of the villages of the area and of ADATA, and the sponsorship of the town council of Moreruela de Tábara.
13 October 2001 Opening. The museum opens its doors in Santa Eulalia de Tábara.
28 July 2024 A new name. The town council agrees to give the museum the name of its founder: it becomes the Museo Etnográfico Antonio Ferrero Guerra.
July 2025 The memory of wool. The museum forecourt hosted a day devoted to the cycle «from sheep to skein»: washing, carding and spinning with spindles and distaffs, with storytelling and the role of women in passing on this knowledge. It was a one-off event, not a permanent activity.

The museum opens on request: arrange the opening in advance before you come.

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