I would like to dedicate this Blog to the fantastic museum of Cristina, a friend from Bilbao, and her sister Elena who have converted it from a family farm house. This emotional decision has made it one of the few ethnographic and private museums in Spain that leaves no one indifferent.
The museum offers an unique experience which is focused on the concept of the house. During a trip by tram from Arratia (Vizcaya Valley), you will visit two contemporary but very different worlds.One is belonging to traditional life and the other to modernity. A journey that allows you to discover all the rooms of the house of the late XIXth and early XXth centuries. The ancestry of the Basque farm house and the modernity of the industrial Bilbao.
A travel through time that shows surroundings decorated with exquisite taste and contextualises the way of living in this period of our history
The modern bourgeois house of the industrial Bilbao, transports you to the era of the Belle Époque. There you will find walls covered with a fantastic orange paper by the English architect and designer William Morris, wmorrisanco.com/uk alongside with a large amount of Alfonsino-style furniture, ostentatious, sober pieces, with a straight line and turned dark wood. Dining chairs with high back, upholstered with velvet or leather that were so fashionable at that time. Delicate porcelain, tableware, mirrors with pompous golden frames, linen table cloths, wonderful dresses, hats and head dresses from the Bilbao designer Lola Moures, will take you to the bourgeois, elegant and industrial Bilbao of the 1920s. All of it synonymously in quality and preserved under the best conditions after so many years.
Determination, perseverance and much hard work are the words which I would use to describe the character of these two Bilbao sisters. I would like to invite everyone to visit this unique museum in the idyllic setting of the Urkiola Natural Park. And finally, I would
