Salamanca Museum of Commerce and Industry

Exhibitions

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The Salamanca Museum of Commerce and Industry aims to research, preserve, and disseminate everything related to the city's commerce and industry. To achieve this, we have five areas of work.

Permanent Exhibitions: We have two permanent exhibitions, History of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca and The Sounds of Yesterday. Agustín de Castro Collection.
Temporary Exhibitions: At least four exhibitions of this type are held annually. Some relevant ones have been; "Magic and Gold. An exhibition on traditional and author jewelry in Salamanca and its province", "Circumsolar Faces of La Armuña", "Enter. The video game revolution", "Rafael Basulí and commercial decoration in Salamanca (1945-1970)", etc.

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Publications: The Proceedings of the Heritage Conferences are published in collaboration with the USAL Master's in Heritage. In addition, two Notebooks of the Museum of Commerce are usually published annually. In 2025 these were; no. 27. "Antonio Lorenzo -el Gallo- and his commercial establishments" and "Cafe-Bar Plus Ultra. Living history of Salamanca's hospitality industry".

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Education: To facilitate the understanding of both permanent exhibitions, educational materials adapted to each educational stage have been developed; Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, Baccalaureate, and Vocational Training.
Activities: Workshops, conferences, showcooking, neighborhood cinema, fairs, parades, etc.

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Temporary exhibitions, cultural activities, educational...

2025-10-10

THE CUARESMERA 2019

On Sunday, March 1st, a popular celebration was held in the Museum of Commerce square, marking the arrival of the Lenten period. The event, organized by La Hermandad del Perdón, the Prodesi neighborhood association, and the Museum of Commerce, was attended by the Councillor for Tourism, Fernando Cas...

2025-10-10

La Cuaresmera 2020

Lent – a forty-day period of fasting and abstinence from meat, preceding Easter and beginning on Ash Wednesday – is already documented in 13th-century French literature and in 14th-century Castile by Archpriest of Hita in El Libro del Buen Amor.

In the 17th century, the popular representation of...

2025-09-29

CUARESMERA 2021

The Museum of Commerce offers visitors who come to its halls, starting Wednesday, February 17, a cut-out drawing of a Cuaresmera, a symbolic representation that was hung in shops and homes to count the passing of the seven weeks of the Lenten period.

The Cuaresmera was traditionally hung in a house...

Permanent exhibition

Model of the Monument to the Businessman. Year 1986

Piece made by Gabriel Sánchez Calzada and donated by his son Julio Sánchez Holgado. Materials: Plaster and wood. Dimensions: 120cm high by 50cm wide.

With this model, the sculptor Gabriel Sánchez Calzada won the competition in 1986 to create the Monument to the Entrepreneur that we can see today in Salamanca's Gran Vía. The commission was made by the Chamber of Commerce to commemorate the institution's centenary. On the pedestal appear reliefs of various business activities such as bills of exchange, coins, acronyms of commercial companies, a compass rose, etc. All this under the representation of the Roman god Mercury, the protector of merchants and travelers, among other attributes. The cleaning, consolidation, volumetric reintegration, and final surface protection were carried out by the restorer Isabel Pantaleón Rodríguez.

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Notebooks, catalogues, monographs...

2025-09-24

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 4TH CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY IN SALAMANCA

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José Ignacio Díez Elcuaz: "The Enrique Estevan Bridge and the end of iron architecture."

Ángel Vaca Lorenzo: "Buying and selling in medieval Salamanca: the Thursday weekly market."

Miguel García-Figuerola: "The notion of prestige in traditional trade in Salamanca (1850-1950)."

Pedro Javier...

2025-09-24

Rafael Basulí and Commercial Decoration in Salamanca

Catalogue for the exhibition of the same title, featuring a significant selection of photographs donated by the decorator's family to the Museo del Comercio in 2015. 21 x 21 cm, 96 pages. Price: 3 euros

2025-09-24

TEXTILE TRADE. Catalog of the VII Photography Competition, 2015

This catalog compiles fifty-eight photographs selected from those submitted to the seventh photographic competition organized by the Museum of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca, whose results were made public in early September.

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The Museum of Commerce dedicates a significant part of its activities to educational endeavors, focused on the education of its youngest visitors. With them in mind, it has programmed various ways to engage with the museum's narrative, which varies depending on the age of the groups visiting us.