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Calatrava architectural icon by the sea in Santa Cruz.
Seafront Marian sanctuary, patron saint of the Canaries.
César Manrique museum and foundation in his former Tahíche home.
History museum in the Vegueta old town, Las Palmas.
Archaeology museum on the pre-Hispanic culture of La Gomera.
Archaeology museum on the Benahoarita culture in Los Llanos de Aridane.
Nature and archaeology museum in central Santa Cruz.
Museum dedicated to Majorero cheese in Antigua, Fuerteventura.
A 16th-century fortified compound in Adeje's old town, built by the Ponte family to guard their sugar mill. A fire left it in ruins in 1902, but the tower, the gateway and much of the enclosure are still standing. The south-eastern section has been restored and can be visited free of charge on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings.
Military history museum in the 18th-century Fuerte de Almeyda in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with rooms of flags, weapons, uniforms and dioramas.
Birthplace of novelist Benito Pérez Galdós in the Triana district of Las Palmas, now a house-museum with guided visits and free entry.
Archaeological museum in Vegueta with the largest collection on the pre-Hispanic Guanche culture of the Canaries.
The Museo de la Casa Roja occupies an early twentieth century manor house in Villa de Mazo, on La Palma, and is laid out over two floors. One holds the Centro Divulgatorio del Corpus, the only state museum devoted to the festival, with reproductions, documents, illustrations and photographs of the arches, carpets and walkways that dress the streets of the municipality. The upper floor houses the embroidery museum.
The Museo LM Arte Colección occupies a traditional Canarian house from the second half of the eighteenth century, on calle Obispo Rey Redondo in the historic centre of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. It opened on 23 December 2021 and shows the body of Canarian and international art assembled by Luz Marina Lorenzo, a collector born in La Palma, which runs to close on six hundred pieces.
The Museo del Pescador occupies the premises of the Cofradía de Pescadores Gran Poder de Dios, on calle Las Lonjas in Puerto de la Cruz, beside the fishing quay. Its Casa Museo brings together a large collection of ship models, ranging from traditional Canarian rowing boats and faluas, tuna vessels and purse seiners to schooners, sail training ships, steamers and the old island mail boats, alongside working objects such as an old scale.
A museum devoted to the aviation history of Lanzarote, inside the grounds of César Manrique airport, in the municipality of San Bartolomé. Because it sits within the airport precinct itself, a visit fits naturally around an arrival on or a departure from the island. It is worth confirming access conditions by telephone before going, especially if the visit has to fit between one flight and another.
The Centro de Arte La Regenta is the exhibition space of the Government of the Canary Islands in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Founded in 1987, it is a public institution devoted to the dissemination of contemporary art. Alongside its exhibition programme it runs a Visual Arts Production Space, a documentation centre, lecture cycles and workshops for education and cultural action.
The Museo de La Zafra, a museum of tomato growing and rural life in Vecindario, gathers the most important aspects of the recent history of Santa Lucía de Tirajana: the cultivation and packing of tomatoes in the lower part of the municipality. The museum covers more than 4,000 square metres arranged in twelve rooms that take the visitor through production, packing, transport and export.
The Centro de Interpretación del Aloe Vera in Yaiza is one of three such centres that Aloe Plus Lanzarote runs on Lanzarote, alongside those in Punta Mujeres and Arrieta. Staff accompany visitors along the route and explain why the island's climate and volcanic soils favour a high quality aloe, how an aloe leaf is cut properly and how its fresh gel can be used at home. Guided tours are offered in several languages.
The Museo de la Seda Las Hilanderas, a silk museum and working workshop on Calle Manuel Taño in El Paso, La Palma, occupies a historic house. It holds a collection of pieces that sums up the Ruta de la Seda, and in the same rooms the craftswomen work in front of visitors using very old methods and tools, just as in the sixteenth century. The workshop describes itself as the only one in the Canaries and the last in Europe to keep the process entirely by hand.
Museo del Puro Palmero stands in the Parque de Los Álamos, in San Pedro, within the municipality of Breña Alta on La Palma. It is devoted to the puro palmero, the cigar-making tradition preserved on the island, and frames the visit as a journey from the distant past to the present, with attention to the tobacco harvest and to the handmade production of the cigar.
The Casa-Museo Antonio Padrón. Centro de Arte Indigenista occupies, in Gáldar, the painter's family house and the pavilion that served as his studio, where his work was left untouched after his death. It belongs to the museum network of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, which conserves, researches and makes known that painting and its cultural setting. The staircase joining the two floors holds two murals by the artist, Niños haciendo cometas and Camellos de la escalera.
The Museo de La Fortaleza, at La Sorrueda in Santa Lucía de Tirajana, is the visitor centre for the archaeological area of La Fortaleza, a pre-Hispanic settlement in the same municipality. Its main hall combines traditional museography with technology and hyperrealistic scenography, and the route continues through a central courtyard, an audiovisual room and a terrace viewpoint that looks out over the setting of the excavation.
The Roque de los Muchachos Visitor Centre stands at 2,426 metres above sea level in the municipality of Garafía, beside the international astrophysics observatories on the highest point of La Palma. It is laid out as four areas: a welcome room with reception, auditorium, shop and an interactive table on the entrails of the telescopes, plus three exhibition rooms devoted to the sky, to the universe and to the Garafía area.
The Casa Museo Miguel de Unamuno occupies the house that took in the writer when he reached Fuerteventura in 1924, banished by the Rivera dictatorship. It stands in the centre of the old Puerto Cabras, today Puerto del Rosario, and keeps the feel of a bourgeois home of the last century, with fine wood, heavy drapes and period devices such as a typewriter and a phonograph.
The Museo Diocesano de Arte Sacro of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is housed in the rooms that open onto the Patio de los Naranjos of the Catedral de Canarias. It shows part of the artistic heritage gathered by the cathedral, including work by the sculptor Luján Pérez and the painter Juan de Miranda alongside pieces of national and international standing. The cathedral is visited together with the museum, on one route.
The Museo de Artesanía Iberoamericana de Tenerife occupies the former Dominican convent of San Benito Abad in the Villa de La Orotava. The building keeps its stone entrance arch, the cloister, the timber ceilings and the stone staircase, with work by the Canarian architect, sculptor and gilder Antonio de Orbarán. It reopened as a museum in 1991 and holds more than ten thousand pieces of Iberoamerican and Spanish craftwork.
An interpretation centre housed in the old village casino of El Pinar, at a key point in the south of El Hierro. Its panels explain how the island was formed and which geological stages it has passed through, with a section on how the local population has managed its geological resources. It is run by the island company Meridiano and has a shop and toilet. Bus line 2, which links El Pinar with San Andrés and Valverde, stops within reach.
A Benahoarita site in the final stretch of the Barranco de San Juan, in the Los Galguitos district of San Andrés y Sauces, inside the Las Nieves natural park. Its core is a huge natural cave more than sixty metres wide that was lived in for at least two thousand years. Around it lie dozens of caves, three burial grounds and a small station of rock engravings, together with a visitor centre completed in 2019.
The Castillo de La Virgen crowns the cliff above the Barranco de Las Nieves, on the northern edge of the old town of Santa Cruz de La Palma. It was never a working military fort. It grew out of the town festival, and its battlements are the stage for the Dialogue between the Castle and the Ship during the Bajada de la Virgen. The rest of the time it serves as a quiet balcony over the rooftops, the harbour and the Atlantic.
Museum centre devoted to the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, opened in 2017 in the barranco de Santos park, with an interactive permanent room.
Museum carved into the rock explaining the life of the native Canarians in the spectacular Barranco de Guayadeque.
Cultural centre for contemporary art, photography and a library in a Herzog & de Meuron building.
International Museum of Contemporary Art set in an 18th-century fortress restored by César Manrique.
Interactive science and technology museum in Parque Santa Catalina, with a digital planetarium and 3D cinema.
Ecomuseum and giant-lizard breeding centre in El Golfo, El Hierro.
Aboriginal site with the famous cave of geometric paintings.
The Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, also known by its initials CAJI, is a space devoted to contemporary creation in Puerto del Rosario. It stands in the El Charco district, on the site once occupied by the Cine Marga, whose historic façade has been preserved. It takes its name from Juan Ismael González, a Canarian painter born in Fuerteventura in 1907 and closely linked to the avant garde movements of his day.
The Museo Arqueológico de Fuerteventura stands in the Villa Histórica de Betancuria, the first capital of the Canary Islands after the conquest and listed among the most beautiful villages in Spain. It is a modern space created with a vocation for promoting culture and research, and it works as the centre and hub of knowledge about the majorero aborigines, the mahos. The Cabildo de Fuerteventura runs it.
Castillo de Mata houses the Museum of the City and the Sea in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The fortification was built in 1577 beside the city wall and is one of the few surviving remains of the town's sixteenth-century defensive system. It was declared a Historic Artistic Monument in 1949 and, after a restoration completed in 2013, opened as a museum in 2015.
The Casa-Museo Tomás Morales occupies the poet's birthplace and family home, a mid nineteenth century building in the Villa de Moya. It is a public institution under the culture department of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, which bought the house from his heirs in 1966 and opened it as a house museum in October 1976. The permanent rooms present the life and work of Tomás Morales together with the literary context of his time.
A monument at the western tip of El Hierro, on Punta de Orchilla, beside the lighthouse that for centuries marked the prime meridian. El Hierro is known as the Island of the Meridian thanks to Ptolemy, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer who placed the origin of longitudes here in the 2nd century, where it stayed until it moved to Greenwich in 1884. The spot is reached by car and sits well off the usual routes.
A centre devoted to traditional Gomeran pottery, right in the middle of the village of El Cercado, in the Chipude area. On La Gomera the ware is still made as it was centuries ago, by hand and without a wheel, and that is precisely the craft explained here. The tour covers every stage, from gathering the raw clay to firing in wood burning kilns, using interactive panels, pieces at different stages and explanatory videos.
A visitor and environmental information point inside the Los Tilos forest, next to the Barranco del Agua in the municipality of San Andrés y Sauces, in the north east of La Palma. It introduces the Canarian laurisilva, an ancient type of laurel forest that survives here in unusually good condition. The trail towards the Marcos y Cordero springs, known for its rock tunnels, starts from this area.
The MIAC occupies the castle of San José, an eighteenth-century fortress raised above the sea in Arrecife. In 1976 César Manrique drove its restoration and turned it into a contemporary art museum, keeping the original stone and inserting a modern language into it. The collection brings together work by Canarian and mainland Spanish artists of the second half of the twentieth century. It is part of the Lanzarote network of Art, Culture and Tourism Centres.
Open-air recreation of a Canary Island settlement from before the conquest, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, overlooking the Barranco de Fataga. More than a hundred life-size figures spread scenes of daily life across the site: the home, grain, livestock, healing, justice and burial rites. A small archaeological room rounds off the route and helps place what stands outside. Since the site is open ground with little shade, water, a hat and sun protection are worth packing.
Interpretation centre devoted to the volcanic cavities of La Palma, in the Todoque area within the municipality of Los Llanos de Aridane. It explains how a lava tube forms when molten rock keeps running beneath a crust that has already set, and it lets visitors walk a real section of those galleries. The surrounding landscape was reshaped by the Tajogaite eruption of 2021, which puts the story told inside into immediate context. Visits are made with prior booking.
An eighteenth century Canarian townhouse on Plaza de la Concepción in La Laguna, right beside the bell tower of the Concepción church and inside the UNESCO listed old town. It was the family home of the collector Cayetano Gómez Felipe (1902-1978), who filled it with objects from everyday island life. The rooms open onto a courtyard with wooden galleries, and the collection is shown in the very spaces it was gathered for. Easy to reach on foot, since most of the historic centre is pedestrian.
A pre-Hispanic archaeological site in Telde, carved by hand into the rock at around 300 metres above sea level. The main cave opens to the outside through four aligned doorways, which give the site its name. At the summer solstice the rising sun enters through the second doorway and lights the back wall.
Interpretation centre devoted to palm honey and guarapo, in the hamlet of Aldama in Alojera, Vallehermoso. It explains how sap is tapped from the Canary palm and reduced down into miel de palma, a craft still practised on La Gomera. The visit combines a self-guided trail through the palm grove with a guided tour of the centre, and the product can be tasted.
Cabildo-run centre on Canarian volcanism and the El Hierro UNESCO Global Geopark, in El Pinar on the road down to La Restinga. It is laid out in two buildings joined by a short interpretive path. One explains how volcanic islands are born, the other recreates the 2011 submarine eruption with light and sound.
An aloe vera interpretation centre in Punta Mujeres, in the municipality of Haría, on the road to the Jameos del Agua. Panels, an audiovisual room and a guided explanation cover the plant's history, cultivation and properties. It belongs to the Lanzarote network of aloe museums, the only one of its kind in the Canaries.
Benahoarita archaeological site in Villa de Mazo, La Palma, with ten natural caves and rock engravings. The first petroglyphs documented in the Canaries were recorded here in the 18th century.
Ethnographic museum set inside genuine cave dwellings carved into volcanic tuff, in Artenara, the highest municipality of Gran Canaria.
The Franciscan sanctuary in San Cristóbal de La Laguna that guards the image of the Cristo de La Laguna, one of the most venerated crucifixes in the Canary Islands.
An ethnographic museum in San Bartolomé, in the heart of Lanzarote, recreating the island's traditional rural life inside an 18th-century cellar.
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