The La Corrala Cultural Center, headquarters of the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, has been installed since 2012 in a corrala on Carlos Arniches Street, numbers 3 and 5, next to the Rastro de Madrid, in the Spanish capital.[1]​ As an original project of the Autonomous University of Madrid, its objectives are to promote the creativity and scientific innovation capacity of said university institution throughout Madrid. It is directed by the collective La Corrala with a long tradition of cultural management in Madrid, which previously managed facilities such as the Sala Cadarso and reopened the Sala Olimpia as a theater space in September 1979.[2]​.

Open: Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Closed: Sundays and holidays, and the month of August.

Designed as a citizen workshop for social and cultural coexistence, the Center includes among its services the programming of courses, among which can be mentioned: book presentations, children's workshops, monthly monographs on one of the Museum's ethnographic pieces, annual promotion of the Unamuno Prize awarded to a person or entity for their tasks in favor of "religious pluralism in general, and the normality of Protestantism in particular."[1] Cycles of exhibitions are also mounted on suggestive themes such as The festive cycle of the year or The labyrinth as an archetypal image of the human journey.[1]​ Among its facilities it has an assembly hall, a multipurpose room and three seminar rooms, in addition to the temporary exhibition hall. Free admission to the museum, groups of less than 7 people without prior reservation, and groups of 8 to 20 people, visits by appointment by email or by phone.

The Center occupies an old Madrid corrala known as El Corralón (in Cerrillo del Rastro), built around 1860 and which originally could have functioned as a shopping gallery and car stop on the ground floor, in addition to the homes and inns on its first floor and the attics. Since its construction around 1860 and until the 1990s, the building that houses the center was inhabited despite its lamentable state of conservation. The joint action of the Madrid City Council and the "La Corrala" Association prevented its demolition and the building was rehabilitated, following a project by architect Jaime Lorenzo, who, respecting the complex, also created "a basement through the micropivotage of the old wooden pillars around the central patio", common to constructions of this type with an 'O'-shaped plan.[1] The works were completed in 2008, although the Center was not opened to the public until 2012.[3]​.