Category: Museum
Location: Alcantarilla
Ethnological Museum of the Huerta de Murcia (Museo Etnológico de la Huerta de Murcia) in Alcantarilla was opened in 1968.
The museum has two main sections: - An indoor area and: There are exhibited collections of instruments and tools traditionally used
in the Murcian Huerta (the traditional orchards around the town of Murcia) in
past centuries and up to the first half of the 20-th century. The
collections include pottery, handcrafted furniture, farming implements, metal-ware, local musical instruments, etc.
- An outdoor area: there is displayed a Barraca - the typical house in the orchards of Murcia, and outside of
it: a Moorish oven or a water wheel or Noria, a monument formed by the hydraulic
remains belonging to a traditional control system which irrigated the orchards
of Murcia.
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