Ethnographic Museum

All the contents present in this collection have their synthesis in the recreation of a typical village of these mountains with the exhibition of the models that were decorated in the Galician animated film “O Apóstolo”, by Artefacto Producciones; where stone, wood, iron, etc., find their place to facilitate the life of the people of […]

Chestnut trees are still raised in their gloomy forests giving splendor to our landscape. This space is dedicated to something as ours as the process of driying the chestnut and its evolution until it is clean and ready to consume throughout the year Castiñeiros do val, meus castiñeiros orfos, vellos, calados e retortos, co toro […]

Oil is a unique product of the lands of the river Sil that, due to their special climate, where the authentic native oil of Galicia has been made for millenniums. One of the great challenges for the Ethnographic Museum of Quiroga was to have in its facilities the machinery of a traditional oil mill, where […]

This product, which has always been very attached to the lands of the Geopark, did not stop evolving; production systems varied from the ancient cork oak barks to the modern multi-storeyed hives. They are presented in a very particular recreation of the unique circular beehives of stone which hundreds of them decorate our mountains.

The wine culture is historically related to the lowlands of the Courel Mountains , in the Sil river basin. In the room dedicated to this product, we can see the representation of a traditional winery with materials and utensils related to the whole wine cycle, from the care in the vineyard to the preparation of […]

The school was one of the latest additions to the exhibition of the Quiroga´s Ethnographic Museum. The recovery of several types of desks used in the old unitary schools of the territory, led to research in the villages  searching the rest of the elements of the charming classrooms oin the early years of the twentieth […]

The kitchen below the bedroom is the heart of the traditional house, cooking place,the most important meeting point and the bedroom place of rest. We collect here a sample of the essential elements in these rooms.

The Museum collects the two main steps of  woodworking: removing it from the forest and further processing by the carpenters. Boards were removed from the forest after harvesting with a sawing machine and cut out with a “machado”, the prepared tree trunk (squared and without branches or roots) was raised on top of the donkey, […]

Textile industry also has an important tradition in the Geopark, especially in the mountain parishes. Wool and linen were worked on numerous looms such as the one exhibited at the Quiroga Museum, where the tradition of traditional weavers is kept alive since its opening.

The El Derroche store´s old printing: Fabrics, clothing, footwear and stationery were its strong points, but El Derroche had the first funeral home, the first tobacco shop, providing electrical equipment and sale of phytosanitary products, modern toys and, of course, the first and only printing press of the Region.

Multifunctional room dedicated about all to gastronomic products, located in the space that in these lands is known as “antebodega”. Many of the Valle del Sil wineries have a room in front of them that gives access to the interior; This space, which seeks to create a more stable temperature, independent of the outside temperature, […]