The Ethnological Museum of Salvatierra de Esca owes its existence to the initiative of local people. The entrance is via the old Forge, and inside there is a simple collection of implements and tools that the inhabitants of Salvatierra have gradually accumulated and which bear witness to a bygone way of life from the not-so-distant past. The majority of the objects on show (harvesters, yokes, pack saddles etc.) are related to manual agricultural work and to those tasks that required the use of pack or draught animals. On the other hand, there are also many domestic objects like candlesticks, cooking pot chains, braziers, wooden spoons, earthenware jars, wicker baskets, tallow holders etc.

Traditionally the local economy of Salvatierra de Esca was based on agriculture, the raising of livestock and forestry, and was very closely linked to neighbouring villages of the Navarran Roncal Valley, upstream along the Esca. All these villages were united by the unique and now disappeared tradition of transporting logs downriver by building rafts known as “almadías”.

The building that houses the museum was possibly the original crypt of the San Salvador parish church, to which access is gained via an inner door. The 16th century church ,with a single nave divided in three parts with cross vaulting, also has a very interesting adjacent 17th century tower that lends the whole a certain fortified air.