Museum of the Asturian People

Museum of the Asturian People

Muséu del Pueblu d'Asturies
Established	1968
Location	Paseo del Doctor Fleming, 877 (La Güelga), Gijón, Asturias, Spain

The Museum of the Asturian People (Spanish: Museo del Pueblo de Asturias; Asturian: Muséu del Pueblu d'Asturies) is a museum in Gijón, Principality of Asturias, Spain.^[1] It is an open-air artspace containing Asturian popular art installations, large ethnographic items, and three buildings:

• Casa de los Valdes: temporary exhibition space
• Casa de los González de la Vega: site of the International Bagpipe Museum, including a collection of traditional Asturian musical instruments.^[2]
• The Asturian Pavilion from the 1992 Universal Exposition of Seville, installed at the museum in 1994.

The museum is also known as Asturian Village (Spanish: Pueblo de Asturias;^[3][4] Asturian: Pueblu d'Asturies), since pueblo (in Asturian language, pueblu) means both village and people, and the museum documents the culture of Asturian people, while being in a setting that contains rural buildings and houses, resembling a traditional Asturian village. ^[5]

References

1. "The Museum of the People of Asturias: history and memory". Barceló Experiences. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
2. Oseid, John. "Gijón: An Art Nouveau Surprise On Spain's Cantabrian Coast". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
3. ""El llamado Pueblo de Asturias"". La Nueva España (in Spanish). 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
4. García, Sergio (2023-04-30). "El LEV Festival abarrota el Pueblo de Asturias". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-10.
5. "Muséu del Pueblu d' Asturies". Turismo Asturias (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-10.

External links

• The museum at Gijón City Hall website

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