EL CARMEN LOCAL MUSEUM
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Originally, this museum was an old rural school built in 1900, and it stands as a paradigmatic example of what the hygiene movement gave to public buildings at that time: from that moment, big windows and high ceilings dominate the basic structure of the new built schools.
Today this building works as a local museum, and two permanent collections are exhibited inside.
Downstairs you can see an interesting Ordovician period collection of fossils, with original ones found in Ribadesella’s district a few years ago. Trilobite arthropods are the stars in here, just as they went 450 million years before, when current continents were still forming, and life was exclusively a question of oceanic water and submarine environment.
On the other hand, a local history exhibition is showed upstairs. The works of Jesus Delgado, a pioneer of documental photography, reveal ordinary people routines and traditional works from the beginning of 20th century.
Further, some detailed mock-ups by Ángel Delgado, a brilliant model maker, represent lost symbolic buildings of the local past (If you are a lover of scale reproductions and navigation, ask for the navy models collection kept there).
To finish, some pictures of mansions and some original drawings by Miguel García-Lomas, the Indianos’ favourite architect, are displayed on this area.
To get to El Carmen museum you have to head up the first turn to the left on the N-632 road and then drive 4 km to the west along El Carmen road.
Restored rural school with and interesting fossils' collection from the Ordovician period. Exhibition of pictures, models, and drawings that explain Ribadesella’s history.
Originally, this museum was an old rural school built in 1900, and it stands as a paradigmatic example of what the hygiene movement gave to public buildings at that time: from that moment, big windows and high ceilings dominate the basic structure of the new built schools.
Today this building works as a local museum, and two permanent collections are exhibited inside.
Downstairs you can see an interesting Ordovician period collection of fossils, with original ones found in Ribadesella’s district a few years ago. Trilobite arthropods are the stars in here, just as they went 450 million years before, when current continents were still forming, and life was exclusively a question of oceanic water and submarine environment.
On the other hand, a local history exhibition is showed upstairs. The works of Jesus Delgado, a pioneer of documental photography, reveal ordinary people routines and traditional works from the beginning of 20th century.
Further, some detailed mock-ups by Ángel Delgado, a brilliant model maker, represent lost symbolic buildings of the local past (If you are a lover of scale reproductions and navigation, ask for the navy models collection kept there).
To finish, some pictures of mansions and some original drawings by Miguel García-Lomas, the Indianos’ favourite architect, are displayed on this area.
To get to El Carmen museum you have to head up the first turn to the left on the N-632 road and then drive 4 km to the west along El Carmen road.
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