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The current museum has been installed on three floors within a thematic museography that explains the tradition, preparation and consumption of this food, giving special interest to the entire process in which it is involved. immersed, from its collection until it reaches our tables to be tasted. The phases of the exhibition are as follows: cleaning - the system in which the rice is removed from its impurities is shown -, husking - the place where it is removed the husk to the grain-, whitening -moment in which the rice grains are polished until they are white-, classification by size -here the whole grains are separated from the broken ones -, nutrition - place where oil is added to the grains to promote preservation - and bagging - the The product is placed in bags and is ready for marketing. We must keep in mind that this industrial processing of rice is the one that was carried out last century; today, much of the machinery and steps shown in the museum are no longer in use.

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Monday and January 1, 6, May 1 and December 25.

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The Rice Museum of Valencia is located inside the Molí. de Serra, built at the beginning of the 20th century in the Cabañal neighborhood. This mill had spectacular modern machinery for its time that was restored by the Polytechnic University of Valencia to show visitors how the task of processing rice was carried out in the last century. > Since 2003, and thanks to the City Council, this space has been dedicated to this centuries-old tradition so deeply rooted in the city.

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