Regional Ethnological Museum (Benissoda)
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Parc Francisco Ferri, 1 Tel: 96 290 11 12 Timetable: arrange visit in advance |
Around the 70s, a group of inhabitants from the town of Benissoda were interested in the industrialization and mechanization process, which did not use traditional tools any more. Thus, they decided to set up the “Casa del Llaurador” (“Farmer’s Home”) and go all over the region to pick up all kinds of agricultural tools. This project means the first museum in the Valencian Community.
Nowadays, this collection is made up of almost six hundred pieces and is located in a new three-storey building. Each floor offers a complementary overview of the ethnographic heritage and the relations that different societies have had with it.
On the first floor we can see an audiovisual show of 320 slides with a good background music that offers us a historic, geographic and ethnographic trip throughout the Vall d’Albaida region. On the ground floor, there is a thematic exhibition that shows us a trip throughout all the important stages in the life of an emblematic tool: the thresher. This trip make us think about relationships between society and material culture.
There is a tidy warehouse on the basement that gives the nostalgic people the opportunity to visit and meet again the tools they used in the past. It also gives the youngest people the opportunity to use and become familiar with the tools of the collection through educational activities.
