From April 15th to October 15th: Tue - Sat: 10am - 2pm and 4pm - 7pm.
Sunday and bank holidays: 10am - 2pm.
From October 16th to April 14th: Tue - Sun: 10am - 2pm.
Closed on Monday.
Guided tours by appointment.
The entire hydraulic infrastructure -channel, ditch and bulkheads- is included in this site and located in a beautiful natural setting on the banks of the river Barbadú. Visits are allowed. There are also several buildings, such as the Palace House where the foundry men lived that now houses the museum reception and an exhibition on mills. A small bakery; a flour mill with two pairs of millstones for grinding wheat and maize; and the foundry, which includes two exhibition halls, the bunkers, a forge and the foundry workshop, where we can find the forge hammer and the smelting furnace, fed by singular "stone bellows".
Permanent exhibitions: Exhibition on mills and ironworks.
Schedules: Grinding of corn and wheat every day; demonstration of how the ironworks mill works every Saturday at 12pm and guided tours every day in Basque, Spanish and English. Four tours throughout the morning at 10am, 11am, 12pm and 1pm respectively. Three in the afternoon at 4pm, 5pm and 6pm respectively.
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HOW TO GET THERE?
By road
El Pobal Ironworks is located at a bend of the river Barbadún on its way along Muskiz and by the road to Sopuerta (BI-2701).
Public Transport
By bus: Company Bizkaibus provides lines A3337 (Muskiz - Bilbao along the N-634) and A3338 (Muskiz - Barakaldo - Las Arenas).