Activities

Introduction to Chess Course

The Museum of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca has organized a free beginner chess course for children and young people, which will take place during July.

MUSEUM DAY

To celebrate International Museum Day 2025, we have prepared the game SAGAS. On May 17th and 18th, you can participate by following the instructions we will provide at the entrance. Additionally, on both days at 11:30 AM, we will offer free guided tours for groups -approximately 20 people- who wish...

LA LUPA GAME. INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY.

This year, visitors were offered a new game we called La Lupa. The game involved locating specific themed images inside the Museum of Commerce. The initiative was a success. 254 people visited the museum, drawn by the game's advertising. The Museum of Commerce ranks as the fifth most visited site, a...

International Museum Day

Today, May 18th, International Museum Day is celebrated worldwide. Although this Monday finds the Museum of Commerce with its doors closed, it did not want to miss this occasion, which it has been celebrating for fourteen years. Traditionally, magicians, comedians, and actors have been responsible f...

CULTURE IN VOGUE. SERRANO EMBROIDERY HANDICRAFTS.

The Museo del Comercio is exhibiting, until July 3, a provincial handicraft exhibition that has, as its common thread, the typical iconographic motifs of the popular embroidery produced in the Sierra de Francia.

Clay, wood, metal, glass, plastic… are the mediums onto which each artisan has incorpor...

Conference Series: "Museums for Castilla y León: Current Issues and Perspectives"

In collaboration with the Master's Program in Cultural Heritage Evaluation and Management (University of Salamanca).

The series began on Wednesday, October 27, with a presentation titled "Museums, the Portrait of Dorian Gray. The Case of Castilla y León," delivered by Luis Grau Lobo, director of th...

VIII Conference Series on the History of Commerce and Industry in Salamanca and Province

TUESDAY 29TH MARKS THE START OF THE VIII CONFERENCE SERIES ON THE HISTORY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN SALAMANCA

The VIII series of conferences on the History of Commerce and Industry in Salamanca, organized by the Museum of Commerce and the Interuniversity Program of Experience (Pontifical Universi...

Introductory Chess Course

The Museum of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca has organized a free introductory chess course for children and young people, which will take place during the month of July. The initiative is part of the museum's summer activities and aims to introduce this mental sport to youngsters during their s...

Garment Making Workshops for Children and Young People

The Salamanca Museum of Commerce and Industry scheduled sewing workshops for children and young people, supervised by Elegante Conciencia. Children made a felt pin in the shape of a distinctive element of David Bowie's aesthetic. Young people, meanwhile, decorated a bag with David Bowie's face.

Summer Workshops at the Museum of Commerce. Discover the Nature Around You

As every summer, the Museum of Commerce organized children's workshops during July and August. This year, students were able to discover the nature around them in an enjoyable and fun way, creating a series of crafts, such as an animal footprint in plastic material or a tree made from recycled mater...

The 2025 Cuaresmera

The Museum of Commerce presents visitors who come to its rooms with the 2025 Cuaresmera. This year, the design is created by artist Chema Alonso.
The Cuaresmera, also known as Patarrona, is a traditional calendar that used to be hung in the windows of traditional grocery stores to announce the sale...

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...

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...