The Galician Wine Museum, owned by the Xunta de Galicia, was created in the year 2019 with the purpose of recovering, documentary, preserve and disseminate the wine cultural heritage of Galicia for knowledge, learning and enjoyment of citizens in general and the use and consultation of researchers and scholars of the wine universe, in particular.
It presents the history of the creation of wine landscapes from a historical and ethno-anthropological perspective linked to the wine-growing people of Galicia..
The permanent exhibition is organized in eight rooms that allow to know the history of viticulture in Galicia, the five denominations of origin and the five protected geographical indications of Galician wines and the history of its building created in the 18th century as a priory house for viticultural exploitation dependent on the Mosteiro de San Martiño Pinario de Santiago de Compostela. With an architecture that, out of the ordinary, is at the service of the elaboration, wine storage and distribution, It has five presses on the ground floor in line with an entrance for cars with the grapes, below is the cellar and is completed with an intermediate floor, a residential plant with fireplace, a space for internal use and other exempt dependencies.
Talks with specialists take place monthly, courses, concerts and other activities that help spark conversations, disseminate and enjoy the different aspects of the wine world.
