Muséu del Pueblu d'Asturies | |
Established | 1968 |
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Location | Paseo del Doctor Fleming, 877 (La Güelga), Gijón, Asturias, Spain |
Website | The museum at Gijón City Hall website |
The Museum of the Asturian People (Spanish: Museo del Pueblo de Asturias; Asturian: Muséu del Pueblu d'Asturies) is a museum in Gijón, Principality of Asturias, Spain.[1] It is an open-air artspace containing Asturian popular art installations, large ethnographic items, and three buildings:
The museum is also known as Asturian Village (Spanish: Pueblo de Asturias;[3][4] Asturian: Pueblu d'Asturies), since pueblo (in Asturian language, pueblu) means both village and people, and the museum documents the culture of Asturian people, while being in a setting that contains rural buildings and houses, resembling a traditional Asturian village. [5]