History of sewing, needle and thread. In the middle of the 19th century, there were already tailoring services in Orduña (a tailor named Narciso Alonso Pinedo). During the 20th century 6 tailors and dressmakers coexisted. In our room you can see patterns, designs, utensils… The most unique piece is a wedding dress from the family of María Magdalena Penas, made by Adela de la Torre in 1913.
Guild of great importance for more than two centuries until today. It is in the year 1808 that we have the first accurate record of a confectionery in Orduña with the beginning of the Díaz de Lezana saga.
In the 19th century, the guild boomed with the openings of Confitería Larrea, Mantecadas Badillo, Luengas and Betolaza.
In Orduña, music is emotion, passion and profession. There have been directors, composers, txistularis and municipal drummers since 1561. Organs were built in Orduña the 16th and 17th centuries and municipal music bands have existed since the beginning of the 19th century.
In this room you can admire ancient musical instruments, musical scores and murals with history. You can also listen to the sound of each of them.
Orduña, city of candles. The Historical Archive of Bizkaia documents the foundation of the 19th century artisan candle factories by masters Díaz de Lezana in 1808 and Luis Larrea in 1830.
In this room, you can see all kinds of candles and manufacturing utensils as well as enjoy the smell of virgin wax.
We enter in one of the oldest apothecaries in the Basque Country, inaugurated on September 29, 1791. This apothecary supplied Orduña and the towns within a radius of 50 kilometers. It was sponsored by Orduña’s historian, politician and mayor Cayetano de Palacio y Salazar.
No less unique is the fact that two and a half centuries late, many of those bottles still have their chemical products intact: medicines, essences and colognes.
In this room we can see two old high-warp looms come from the old Company of María College in Orduña, which are unique in Bizkaia and are similar to those of the Royal Tapestry Factory in La Granja, Segovia.
In addition, they have left us another great treasure: all the original designs made by the nuns who lived in Orduña, which are full of creativity, hand-drawn and painted with watercolors.
In the bicycle workshop we can see a great collection of old bicycles. We can admire too, an amazing collection of bicycle, carriage and car license plates which is very unique due to its quantity and variety of shapes and colours.
There is also a tribute exhibition to a legendary Orduña cyclist: Mari Carmen Díaz de Lezana.
From its foundation to being a town and then a city, Orduña had a first-rate guild in wood, both native and imported: sawyers, confectioners, cabinetmakers, turners and chair-makers are documented since the Middle Ages.
In this room you will admire tools, sketches and chair-maker templates registered since the 16th century and whose expansion was reflected in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Guild of maximum importance in Orduña, where up to 17 shoe manufacturing workshops converged. We will admire all kinds of utensils and machines from past centuries as well as footwear from the time.
The Lumiere brothers started cinematography in Paris in 1895 and, in Orduña, we see cinema for the first time in 1910. In this room you can admire a 1942 projection machine that worked with electrodes and two others from 1974 in cinemascope.
You can also see more than 100 original movie posters, reels, old tickets and a number of old cinematographic objects.
In this room and, with the help of the great artisans of the Gancedo family, we can observe the differences of the txistus, txirulas, whistles and drums which are instruments of Basque popular music. They are made of wood, ABS (polymers) or ebonite (rubber), and have different tunings.
Here, we can also see the history of the Landaluce Elejalde family from Orduña who were a referent in the developmentment of instruments and the spreading of txistularism in Euskal Herria during the 20th century.
