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Folkloric Museum Pelagio
B. Luna 811 This museum operates in the 'Casa de los Moreira' (home of the Moreira family), the construction of which began towards the end of the 17th century. The house underwent several reforms and enlargements until it was acquired in 1870 by Ramón Moreira, a prosperous landowner and business man who reformed it, finished the gallery and entrance, laid the limestone floor and erected the Italian style front. The museum began to operate here in 1969. One of its halls is devoted to Mythology and is dedicated to the art of ceramics, giving life to different figures representing native divinities such as the 'Pachamama' (mother earth), 'Yacumama' (goddess of water), or 'Huayra' (god or myth of the wind). In the Chapel Hall there are altars, images and mangers representing the typical Christmas customs in La Rioja. The Kitchen Hall offers insight into a provincial home with its typical cooking stove, wooden plates and baked clay pots. The Bedroom Hall honors an art that embellished family life in La Rioja. Here one can appreciate woven articles of great artistic value, since weaving is one of the most popular and widespread crafts in the province. In the Storehouse Hall exhibits include all the practical implements used daily by farmers in addition to the artifacts employed in the production of brandy of different qualities and wines. Finally, in the Silverwork Hall one can appreciate a collection of mates, promises or former vows, large knives, vessels, trays, spurs and artistically decorated bits.
La Rioja
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