Museo Etnográfico Casa de las Artesanías

The Ethnographic Museum Casa de las Artesanías is an ethnographic museum located in the Plaza Mayor of Mogarraz, in the province of Salamanca, Castilla y León, with coordinates 40.49183, -6.05258. It is a heritage resource focused on the material culture and traditions of the Sierra de Francia, with an exhibition discourse dedicated to everyday life and traditional crafts of the area. The visit is organized in a traditional Mogarreño building of various heights, which various sources describe as an old inn or traditional house reused as a museum space. Its content is aimed at explaining local crafts, especially traditional jewelry, the shoemaker's trade and embroidery serrano, in addition to pieces related to clothing and household utensils. It also incorporates recreated rooms or environments to contextualize the highland way of life. The sources consulted do not give an exact date of foundation of the museum, so it should not be attributed a century of construction to the resource as an institution. It can be affirmed that the center is located in a traditional building in the historic center of Mogarraz, a town with a strong patrimonial personality and preserved popular mountain architecture. Its tourist interest lies in offering a didactic reading of the intangible heritage of Mogarraz and the Sierra de Francia, connecting the memory of the trades with the local identity and the historical environment of the Plaza Mayor.