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The exhibition surface exceeds 500 m2 distributed in several rooms that travel more than 2.000 Years of Livestock History.
“The value of the cattle culture of Fuerteventura associated with the goat and cheese; and its promotion as tourist attraction and entrance door for cheeses from all over the island ”are, In words that of the Minister of Museums of the Cabildo de Fuerteventura, Candelaria Umpiérrez, The great objectives of the Majorero Cheese Museum, that formally opens this Thursday, 24 of July, starting at 20.00 In ancient.
The facilities of the Majorero Cheese Museum are located in the Visitors Center of the Old Mill, that has been remodeled for this purpose. “The result is an important presentation card for our primary sector, especially for goat and cheese ", Rita explained Diaz. The Mayor of Antigua also valued “the importance of this project for our municipality, that will contribute to energize and attract visitors ".
The design of the Majorero Cheese Museum has been prepared in a very didactic way throughout some 515 m2 of distributed surface in several thematic areas and functional spaces, that travel more than 2.000 Years of Livestock in Fuerteventura.
Explanatory panels in several languages, Reproduction of natural spaces, A tour of elements associated with the culture that is, etc., They integrate the exhibition "which has also been prepared thanks to the collaboration and contributions of professionals in the farmer of Fuerteventura", The President of the Cabildo highlighted, Mario Cabrera.
Museum development has been divided into four thematic blocks:
1. Fuerteventura: The island, orography, weather, geology, Fauna and flora.
2. The goat and the Majorero cheese: The majorera goat, Relationship with the natural environment, grazing, The milking, morphology, Caprina Majorera breed, etc.
3. History and culture. Gastronomy: Traditional elaboration, Traditional trade, Characteristics of Majorero Cheese, The Canarian cheeses, Denomination of Origin of the Majorero Cheese, Aspexctos nursing, Pairing, recipes, etc.
4. Tasting room and cheese store of Fuerteventura.
The approach that departed is that the result was not an area of classical exhibitions. It was intended to offer a variety of services and cheese -related information, From tastings, to detailed information on the process of elaboration and even facilities to house offices of the entities and associations related to the Majorero cheese.
It is about the around two million visitors we receive annually can also have facilities in which to know our main dairy product, explained the Minister of the Museum Network.
A part of the current old mill like the grinding building is preserved (The Mill itself, declared of cultural interest in the monument category in 1994) and the restaurant, that will soon go to tender.
The museum's outer space has also been rehabilitated (including the integral signaling of the center), The authorization of a terrace overlooking the rural landscape of ancient, The facilities for use by people with reduced mobility have been adequate, THE REFORM THE PARKING, etc.
The museum and space management project has been prepared by ‘Proasur SL’, With a budget of 675.154 EUR.