The permanent exhibition
The museum occupies one of the three bays of the old cannery with its elongated rectangular floor plan and gable roof. The exhibition in the museum combines a historical thread through the audiovisual – which takes viewers on a chronological journey from the end of the Bronze and Iron Ages to the Romanisation of the territory– with more global and timeless cross-cutting themes (settlement, habitat, society, technology, economy, trade, crafts, beliefs and funerary rituals, etc.).
The communicative discourse of the Museum follows a linear path consisting of 12 thematic areas which explain the economic, social, cultural and archaeological aspects of the village of Las Eretas and its time: the Iron Age (first millennium BC). Each thematic area has an explanatory panel with a brief text with illustrations – maps, photographs and drawings –, and a display case showing original archaeological pieces, both from the Las Eretas site and other Navarrese Iron Age villages which have been investigated, to help transmit the information it offers (Alto de la Cruz in Cortes, Castejón necropolis, La Custodia in Viana).
In addition to the giant screen visible and audible throughout the room, the museographic support resources used include informative graphic panels (explicitly numbered and titled with labels, explanatory texts in Spanish and illustrations of different types), display stands for original pieces, large-format wall drawings depicting funeral scenes, two scale models of Navarrese archaeological sites (a fortified village and the adjoining houses in a village), a replica of an archaeological site under excavation, a television monitor permanently looping an audiovisual on Berbinzana and Las Eretas and, finally, a kamishibai which introduces children to the features of a village 2,500 years ago – Las Eretas – and the ways of life back then by narrating and illustrating a story.
