Casa-Museo Antonio Padrón. Centro de Arte Indigenista
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 house on calle Capitán Quesada follows a functionalist design by the architect Miguel Martín Fernández de la Torre, with an upper floor given over to family life and a ground floor put to varied uses. In the adjoining pavilion, regionalist in style and built in 1947, more than a hundred and fifty pieces were kept from the different periods of Antonio Padrón (Gáldar, 1920-1968), from his academic studies to the unfinished canvas Piedad.
The museum opened in 1971 on the family's initiative and passed to the Cabildo de Gran Canaria in 1981. The garden of the house was added in 2003, and the works of 2014 brought in the ground floor of the dwelling next to the studio, giving it its present shape as a centre for indigenista art and study. Visitors can go round on their own, helped by touch screens and a leaflet; groups of seven or more request a guided visit by email.
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