Museum of the Asturian People
Introduction The '''Museum of the Asturian People''' (Spanish: '''Museo del Pueblo de Asturias'''; Asturian: '''Muséu del Pueblu d'Asturies''') is a museum in Gijón, Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is an open-air artspace containing Asturian popular art installations, large ethnographic items, and three buildings:*''Casa de los Valdes'': temporary exhibition space*''Casa de los González de la Vega'': site of the International Bagpipe Museum, including a collection of traditional Asturian musical instruments. *The ''Asturian Pavilion'' from the 1992 Universal Exposition of Seville, installed at the museum in 1994.The museum is also known as ''Asturian Village'' (Spanish: ''Pueblo de Asturias''; Asturian: ''Pueblu d'Asturies''), since ''pueblo'' (in Asturian language, ''pueblu'') means both village and people, and the museum documents the culture of Asturian people, while being in a setting that contains rural buildings and houses, resembling a traditional Asturian village.
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