Extensive display of Asturian culture.
The Museum of the Asturian People 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.
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A working-class housing block, named for the fellow who built it in 1877, and inhabited until 1960. It's now a museum, with one house furnished in period. Folk here lived in cramped conditions, with a single window to each house.
Basílica-Santuario del Sagrado Corazón de Jesus
Ornate OTT church built 1918-22 in a mix of Neo-Gothic and Modernist.
Exhibiting the work of post-impressionist painter Nicanor Piñole (1878-1978). The building of 1902 was originally a school for under-privileged children.
Extensive display of Atlantic plants.
Steam, diesel and electric locomotives and shunters and other rolling stock, mostly from Asturias' industrial heyday of coal and steel. The steam locos are occasionally fired up and haul rides, but it's just for 100 m up and down the siding. Plus a library and resource on Spanish railways, and model railways.
The aquarium has 60 different habitats of fresh and salt water.