The writer Federico Garcia Lorca was born in Fuente Vaqueras near Granada in 1898. A farmer`s son, he studied in Granada, Madrid and New York. His great passion being Andalucian life and culture, he wrote ballads and powerful works for the stage. One of his well-known plays was `Yerma, Blood Wedding`. During the Spanish Civil War he was assassinated. The museum was his former home and you can see the family rooms, his school photographs as well as videos.