Facade of the Museum of Fairs

Facade Museum of the Fairs. The Museum of the Fairs is located in Medina del Campo. The only museum of its kind in the country, it illustrates the history of the usual merchandise and financial fairs in the 15th and 16th centuries, which placed Medina del Campo in a prominent position at the time.

The museum was inaugurated in the year 2000 in the old Church of San Martín, from the 16th century. The current permanent collection was renewed in 2016. In this way, the thematic chapters in which the collection is presented are now reduced to three: the first dedicated to the classic merchandise fairs, the second to the exclusive" fairs of payments and financial transactions, and the third to Simón Ruiz, a character in which both facets are embodied, that of a merchant and that of a great businessman, in the context of the international fairs of Medina del Campo."