Popular Arts & Customs Museum in Malaga

Very interesting museum showing the customs and popular arts in Malaga, it is distributed in 2 floors. There are 19 halls showing us how it was living in Malaga many years ago.

Hall 1: Stable

This hall with a typical floor used for the horses transit in old times as well as related items like ironworks and carpintery.

Hall 2: Forge

This hall shows the old forgery, forge tools and ironworks made.

Hall 3: Bakery

Reproduction of a bakery used in old times in Malaga. There is a flour mill, a bakery oven and tools used in bakery.

Hall 4: Fishing

The sea and fishing has been a very important activity in Malaga. In the past some people used to work exclusively delivering fresh fish, they were called ‘Cenachero’.

This hall shows typical tools used for fishing in the past in Malaga, fishing boats, related paints and sculptures.

Hall 5: Kitchen and tools

Want to find how they cook in old times? There was no electricity and they had to cook using a fire. In this hall you will find the basic tools used in a typical kitchen.

Hall 6: Dinning room

Usually the dinning room, the kitchen or home fire and the bedrooms were in the same place. Other rooms were for the animals or the grain.

Some villas with better economic resources could have a dinning room separately as well as rooms exclusively for sleeping.

Hall 7: Winery, cellar and tavern

Learn how was the process of making wine and vine growing.

Hall 8: Oil press

Oil industry is very important in Andalucia, here you will learn how it was done and the tools they used in the past.

Second floor

Hall 9: Bourgeois life

Mannequins with dresses and suits of nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, children’s clothings and toys. Very interesting to visit for learning about the higher class in the old times.

Hall 10: Arturo Reyes office

Offices were very typical into the bourgeois homes, this one is the original office from the Spanish writter Arturo Reyes (1864-1913)

Hall 11: The den or drawing room

It was very common in those old bourgeois homes to have a drawing room next to the living room, it was used to receive visits.

Hall 12: Printing

Discover how it was the printing in the eighteenth century with this workshop museum

Hall 13: Rural bedroom

Typical iron beds, furniture and tools used in the past into a bourgeoise bedroom from the eighteenth century.

Hall 14: Agricultural works

Agricultural works were very important in the eighteenth century, this hall shows the clothes, typical shoes and tools used.

Hall 15: Pottery tradition

Architectural ornaments, pottery and pieces from the nineteenth century exposed in this hall.

Hall 16: Folcklore and festivities

Different showcases featuring typical folcklore dress, musical instruments, representations of typical festivities…

Hall 17: Representative figures and busts

This hall focus on busts and the old lifestyle representative figures collected by Peter Winckworth: Christmas figures, bullring, typical dancers or people representations among others.

Hall 18: Religion

Collection of religious objects from the 18th and 19th centuries.