Museo del Tamborilero

Ethnographic and musical museum dedicated to the figure of the Salamanca drummer, opened in Ciudad Rodrigo in the premises of the San Cayetano Diocesan Seminary. It was created as an initiative to disseminate the musical and folkloric tradition linked to the tamboril and the bagpipe, and collects materials and utensils of the local folklorist José Ramón Cid. According to the consulted sources, the museum opened in Easter of 2024, inheriting the informative line of the previous exhibition "Tamboril por Gaita" of the Palacio de los Águila. Its content focuses on the traditional charra culture and the memory of the drummers, essential figures in festivals, dances and popular ceremonies in the province of Salamanca. The space is located in Ciudad Rodrigo, a historic municipality of Salamanca and Castilla y León, in a city declared a historic-artistic site for its important monumental heritage. The exhibition approach also includes audiovisual resources and interpretative pieces to explain traditional music and its social context. In terms of typology, it is a museum of ethnographic and musical themes; the sources consulted do not show a specific construction chronology for the resource, as it is installed in a pre-existing building of the Seminary.