Asturias has its own bagpipe tradition — the gaita asturiana is the region's defining instrument — and the International Bagpipe Museum (Museo Internacional de la Gaita) in the Somió park collects instruments from bagpipe cultures across Europe and beyond. The collection is more substantial than you'd expect from a regional museum: gaitas from Galicia and Asturias in their various forms, Highland Scottish pipes, Uilleann pipes from Ireland, the Breton biniou, Moroccan instruments that share structural similarities, and representations from eastern European and Balkan bagpipe traditions that most visitors will have never encountered.
The museum makes a convincing case that the bagpipe, far from being a specifically Celtic instrument, is among the most geographically widespread woodwind instruments in the world — found from Ireland to India, with different constructions and different sounds in each tradition. Even for visitors with no prior interest in the instrument, the breadth of the collection is genuinely surprising. The museum sits within the same park as the Museo del Pueblo de Asturias and can be visited on the same ticket; the combined visit takes about two hours. In summer, the park sometimes hosts live gaita performances.