Cocina

Old Cocina or kitchens are connected to the house by a causeway or bridge because these are considered as a fire hazard during the time. Patterned after a 19^th century house in Bucay, Abra, the cocina of the Museo features sawali walls and ceilings, a traditional igloo-shaped pugon or hurno (oven), several firewood-operated dapogan (open-pit stoves), as well as a restored authentic banggerahan. A banggerahan or traditional dish-dryer, contains porcelain plates and drinking glasses.

Aside from being a traditional place for cooking, grain pounding, and dishwashing, the kitchen also serves as a service area for other household chores like sewing and clothes pressing. Thus, a hand-operated Singer sewing machine, a wooden prensa de piye which uses the feet in pressing the clothes, a prensa de mano (hand press), as welll as brass and iron presses are featured in this section.