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The most curious museums of Spain
by Francisco Javier Palaz�n
They are not the largest, the most popular or the most frequented museums of Spain, but they are certainly the most peculiar and unusual. Visiting them we can discover fascinating new worlds, learn the traditional way to make chocolate and take a peek at the Inquisition's grisliest instruments of torture.

Andalusia
- Aroche (Huelva)
Museo del Santo Rosario
Paulino D�az, the organist of the parish of Aroche in Huelva, was an obsessive collector of rosaries. He spent his entire life writing to the celebrities of his time and asking them to donate a rosary to his collection. A continually growing collection of some 1,300 rosaries hang from the walls, including those belonging to Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II and the Kings of Spain, among others.
- Ronda (Malaga)
Museum of the Bandit (history and legend)
This museum aims to preserve and spread the legend of banditry, a phenomenon that is still fresh in the memories of Andalusians. It combines a collection of original documents such as written sources (birth and death certificates, royal letters and edicts, search and arrest warrants), oral testimonies, individual histories, material remains, the graphic and literary visions of the travellers of the time - Richard Ford, George Borrow and Prosper M�rim�e, among others - with the modern and idealised images of cinema and TV.
- Rute (Cordoba)
Nougat (Turr�n) Museum�
A unique museum devoted to demonstrating the traditional techniques and utensils used to make this popular festive sweet. Age-old production processes are explained and the tools and machinery that were once used in the bakery and the confectioner's, such as mortars, weighing machines or windmill pieces, are displayed.

Aragon
- Campo (Huesca)�
Traditional Toy Museum
An historical reconstruction of certain periods in Spanish history via the importance of entertainment: this museum shows the toys with which the men, women and children of rural Spain spent their free time. The museum centres around a collection of 2,000 pieces belonging to 150 games, a collection that is continually expanding thanks to donations sent from both Spain ant Europe as a whole.
- Pe�arroya de Tastavins (Teruel)
Porcine Museum
This museum's various rooms offer a comprehensive journey through all the different ways to breed and kill pigs, make the perfect tripe and learn the tricks of a pork butcher. This is backed by an exhibition of the tools of the trade, life-size displays and informative panels explaining the processes step by step.

Asturias
- Grandas de Salime
Museum of Ethnography
This is one of Spain's most fascinating museums of ethnography. The lifelong obsession of Pepe El Ferreiro for collecting the utensils of daily life has made for a museum where ancient trades and ways of life are displayed and explained in detail.

Cantabria
- Santillana del Mar
Museum of the Inquisition
A morbid but well documented and detailed lesson in human cruelty. The instruments of torture that cost the lives of thousands of people in one of the blackest and cruellest periods of Spanish history are displayed.

Castilla and Le�n
�- Astorga (Le�n)
Chocolate Museum
Astorga became famous for producing chocolates thanks to being the capital of a large and highly populated diocese, full of priests and monasteries, where the supply and consumption of this sweet was ample. This museum runs through the history of chocolate and the traditional production methods that have been used since time immemorial. One of the museum's most impressive displays is the section devoted to the history of chocolate advertising.

Catalonia
- Camprod�n (Girona)
Automaton Museum
The only museum in Europe where 600 figures and 200 moving automatons allow the visitor to step back in time. The exquisite detail, in the furniture, clothing and architecture, and the faithful reproduction of old photos depicting life in the city, in the countryside or in school are the attractions of this museum.

Valencia region
- Elda (Alicante)
Shoe Museum
This town in the Alicante region has been making shoes since the 18th century, a trade that became its main economic activity in the 19th century. This museum has four rooms arranged on two floors displaying machinery, tools, books and shoe collections. Everything that has been used over the centuries to cover feet can be found in this museum. The most curious room houses a collection of shoes ranging from the typical pair of local rope-soled sandals to the shoes of such celebrities as Jos� Hierro or Luis del Olmo.

Extremadura
- Malpartida de Caceres (Caceres)
Vostell Museum
Founded in 1976 by Wolf Vostell (1932-1998), an Hispano-German artist who was a key figure in post-war contemporary art, inventor of the D�coll/age technique, father of the European happening and video art and co-founder of the international artistic movement known Fluxus. In addition to an ample and varied journey through the most representative moments of Vostell's work, the museum contains the Fluxus-Donation Gino di Maggio, with which it has enticed the most significant artists of the 1960s and 1970s to set up displays.

Galicia
- Museum of Laughter
Fene (La Coru�a)
A homage to laughter in all its different guises, this centre not only displays the creations of Spanish and international comedians, it also aims to be a living museum. So-called Days of Laughter are organised the whole year round, and a magazine called Sapoconcho, that promotes the value of laughter, is also published.

Madrid
- Madrid
Telephone Museum
The emblematic Telef�nica Building in Madrid's Gran V�a contains the history of telecommunications in Spain. The exhibition begins with a detailed chronology of telecommunications, backed by a varied range of ancient telephones. The visitor can learn about the origin of different technologies, from manual dialling (including operators' panels) to automatic dialling.
Erotic Museum
An unusual museum that attempts to summarise man's different attitudes towards erotica and sex since the dawn of time. Its five rooms include artefacts of all shapes and sizes, sculptures, images, web pages, graphic and audiovisual material. Reproductions of pieces from Ancient Greece and Rome, Pompei, the Spanish Romanesque and etchings, drawings and graphic material from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. A special space is also set aside for classic authors of erotica such as the Marquis de Sade and prestigious investigators such as Gregorio Mara��n.
- Torrej�n de Ardoz
Icon Museum
The so-called Casa Grande houses the collection of Sergio Otzoup, former bodyguard to the tsars, who gathered icons from Russia, Bulgaria, Greece and Romania. There are a total of 1,200 pieces displayed according to style and chronology.

Murcia
- Alcantarilla
Museum of Traditions and Popular Art
A giant water wheel, a copy of a 15th century original, welcomes you to this particular museum where such objects as farmers' implements and other utensils of rural life in the Murcian countryside are displayed.

Basque Country
- Bermeo (Vizcaya)
Museum of the Fisherman
The historic tower of Ercilla overlooking the old port of Bermeo houses a museum of devoted exclusively to the life, work and surroundings of the arrantzaleak
�- the Basque fishermen. The rooms related to the life of the fishermen on the ground are located on the ground floor. The other two floors explain other aspects such as the fishermen's trade associations, fishing technique and activity up to the present day, and display the fishing boats, instruments and detection systems employed by the arrantzaleak.
- Vitoria (�lava)
Museo Fournier del naipe
Over 15,000 playing cards make up the Fournier collection housed in the old Benda�a Jauregia palace in Vitoria. Considered one of the most important collections of its type in the world, the museum offers an interesting journey through the history of playing cards, across 11 rooms.

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