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Museo de Artes Populares
Museo de Artes Populares

Museum of Popular Andalusian Traditions

3, Plaza de América
Pabellón Mudéjar
Sevilla, Sevilla
41013

Nearest Train: Bus: 6, 34, 53

Phone: +34 95 471 2391
Fax: +34 954 712 398
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This museum is housed in the Mudejar Pavilion created for the 1929 Latin-American Expo. Its full name is the Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares (Museum of Popular Art and Customs), and it was created in 1972. You can find rooms dedicated to 19th Century courtly dress, typical Andalusian dress, musical instruments, farming tools used before mechanisation, silver and gold work, materials, lace and embroidery, the most notable being a tapestry made in 1730 in the Seville tapestry factory, which is a copy of the painting of children eating grapes by Murillo.You can also see exact copies of rooms from two types of typical houses: the traditional country house and a town house both from the 19th century. The ground floor has exhibits of traditional professions, with an oil press, a forge, a baker's oven, a potter's wheel and a tanner's workshop. But, the most interesting rooms and corridors on this floor are those dedicated to ceramics, including all the different techniques from glazed earthenware in relief to painted ceramics. The Plaza de América is closed to motorised traffic, but you can get here on one of the typical horse and carriages, and enjoy nearby the Parque de María Luisa with its beautiful gardens and squares with their Pavilions built for the 1929 Expo.

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