Juan Pérez Villamil Ethnographic Museum

The museum contains a careful recreation of the traditional way of life of our villages, with the presence of the traditional house, the craft trades, and of what the canning industry was and meant for this and other fishing villages, with the evocative recreation of the engine room of this old factory that was called "La Arenesca".

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS:

The Museum is located in the east wing of the recovered cannery. Access is through a door located in the pavilion attached to the main building, where the restored machines of the old cannery and the historical panel of this trade in the town are installed. Inside, the Ethnographic Museum is divided into a ground floor and a mezzanine, with two adjoining rooms, the archive and the meeting room. On the ground floor you can visit: the recreation of the traditional house with the "char" and the bedroom; the tools that characterised the work of peasants and sailors, as well as eight traditional trades linked to the rural world; an excellent collection of riverside carpentry and two old noble coats of arms. In the mezzanine, in addition to the tribute to emigration and leisure, we find an allegory of the merchant navy, with significant tools, as well as an important collection of models linked to the physical and spiritual world of the seafarer and a rich collection of the peculiar zoology of this Cantabrian coast.

Access is via the turn-off on the N-634 in the direction of Puerto de Vega. The museum is located at the entrance to the village.