Exhibitions and activities of the Museo da Limia

Besides its permanent exhibition, the Museo Etnográfico da Limia, in Vilar de Santos, keeps up a constant programme of temporary exhibitions, talks, meetings and tributes, often with materials from the local community itself. The specific programme changes every year and is published on the Museum’s website (https://museodalimia.com/novas-do-museo/); this page gives examples from its record, which begins with the Museum’s twentieth anniversary in 2016, to show the kind of content it hosts ^[1].

Temporary exhibitions

The temporary exhibition room bears the name of the ethnographer Xaquín Lorenzo, Xocas. Among the shows that have passed through it:

• Porcelain dolls (2016): seventy figures donated by Pachi Fontarigo and Sara Dacal, which took the place of the exhibition of musical instruments from around the world donated by Antonio Nogueiras.
• Os ríos que nos unen (2016), by the association Cultura que Une, on the rivers of Galicia and northern Portugal.
• Unha vida de ra (2017): more than 200 frog figures from Antonio Blanco’s collection, with texts from Rafael Laso Lorenzo’s book of the same name and photos of the frog catchers of the former Lagoa de Antela. Laso recalled that a native of A Limia was born "almost an expert in three things: frogs, potatoes and the Entroido".
• Viaxe polo Mundo das Máscaras (2018), by the ethnographer Mercedes Vázquez Saavedra (Sarria, 1949), opened with pupils of CEIP Carlos Cid Arregui, from Rairiz de Veiga.
• Percepcións and portraits by Manuel Traveso (2022): photographs and illustrations by new creators of the Biblioteca da Limia (fortresses, Entroido pantallas, bread, flowers) and fifteen pen portraits of residents of Vilar de Santos.
• Antela. A memoria asolagada (late 2022): photographs from the book coordinated by Xosé Luís Martínez Carneiro, which raised awareness of the loss of the lagoon and of land consolidation.

Meetings, talks and screenings

• Barriga Verde (2016): the journalist Comba Campoy spoke about her thesis on popular puppet theatre in post-war Galicia (1939–1960).
• Christmas cards (2019): an exhibition from the collection of more than 600 Christmas postcards, from 1964, of a member of the Advisory Council, with cards from several countries ^[41].
• 1st Encontro na Raia (2016), with the cultural tavern "A Arca da Noe" and the IGESIP (talks by Artur Alonso Novelhe and Rhicardo Ribeiro on the Tripla Libertação and synarchy, the exhibition "Ríos da Galiza e Norte de Portugal" and the presentation of Concha Rousía’s book) ^[42], on the shared culture of Galicia and Portugal.
• 1st Encontro de Mulleres da Lusofonía (2017), organised by the Academia Galega da Língua Portuguesa and the Pró-AGLP.
• "Negro Púrpura" (2021): preview of the documentary on rye and ergot, with a protagonist from Piñeira de Arcos.
• Meetings on linen (2022), with Rir&Co and the Arracada Rural Women’s Association.
• Debate day on the draining (29 September 2018), as part of the events for the 60th anniversary of the start of works on the Lagoa de Antela (8 September 1958, under the law of 27 December 1956): the debate "Agrogandeiría e biodiversidade na Limia" and examples of sustainable use ^[37].
• "O Dentón" (2019): presentation of the documentary project and its crowdfunding on rye ergot, which the Museum gave institutional support because of the weight of the cereal in A Limia, regarded as the "Granary of Galicia" ^[38].
• Linen: the Museum has a whole room devoted to the linen process; the women of Parada de Outeiro recorded an audiovisual piece on that work in 1995 ^[39].
• The "Ajuria" (2016): at the open day that closed the 20th anniversary, this threshing machine was added to the crops room; it had been since 1948 in the house of a family in Lampaza (Rairiz de Veiga) before being donated by the Vilar de Santos resident José Antonio Gándara ^[40].

Tributes and music

• Mini e Mero and "Cesteando" (2016), as part of the 20th anniversary and the Virxe das Neves festivities: a performance by Mini e Mero (of the group A Quenlla, formerly Fuxan os Ventos, who had played in Vilar de Santos in 1977) and a screening of Plácido Romero’s documentary.
• 30 years of Xocas (2019): the Museum joined the events for the thirtieth anniversary of the ethnographer’s death, with the plaque on his birth house in Facós (Lobeira).
• Pedra Alta Prize (2023), presented to Amalia Gómez Manso. See Pedra Alta Prize.
• Traditional music meeting (2024), with Delfín Caseiro, Mero, Paco Rodríguez, Quintas Canella, Cástor Castro, Miro Casabella and Concha Losada, president of the Museo do Pobo Galego.

See also the Antón Tovar Literary Competition, the Gasosas Berardo Méndez and, for current events, the tribute to Otero Pedrayo in 2026.

Links

• Museums of A Limia
• Rooms, board and library of the Museum
• Museo Etnográfico da Limia
• Vilar de Santos

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