The "Fournier" Playing Card Museum of Alava was set up in 1986, when the Provincial Council of Alava purchased The "Fournier" collection. At that time, the collection consisted of 3150 decks of playing cards. The size of the museum has increased over the years thanks to a large number of donations and new acquisitions. Today, the Museum contains 20,200 decks, some of them the only ones of their kind in the world.