Ethnical Music Museum by Carlos Blanco Fadol

This museum is located in the town of Barranda, about 14 kilometers distance from Caravaca. It is a thematic museum. Its main aim is to offer to all kind of people the forms, sounds and general information about instruments and music around the world so that we can learn, through them, more about our own traditional and ancestral music; it is considered that it exists a narrow relationship between the instruments and music of different cultures that has not been contemplated deeply.

This museum belongs to the net of regional museums and was located in Barranda due to the fact this town is the most relevant reference regarding traditional music or root music. Besides, it is also relevant the recovering and maintenance of Las Cuadrillas Festivity. It is a XXI century museum in which you can notice the incorporation of new technologies through the use of graphic panels, tactile screens and individual interactive systems of video and audio.

The display offers an important organologic and didactic value by means of musical instruments’ performances created by Leonaro Da Vinci, Master Rene Gamboa’s innovations and Carlos Fadol’s, whose creations are displayed in here. In the different rooms of the museum, jointly to the whole number of instruments from the five continents, you can see interactive screens with phones through which the visitor has access to the information, the sound and the visual image of those instrument displayed. With this type of exhibitions, we try to preserve a great cultural tradition. It is well-known that we can learn a lot about lifestyle, environment, influences, ancestral rituals, religion, etc., through the study of musical instruments.