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History museum in the Vegueta old town, Las Palmas.
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 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 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 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.
Museum carved into the rock explaining the life of the native Canarians in the spectacular Barranco de Guayadeque.
Interactive science and technology museum in Parque Santa Catalina, with a digital planetarium and 3D cinema.
Aboriginal site with the famous cave of geometric paintings.
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.
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.
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.
Ethnographic museum set inside genuine cave dwellings carved into volcanic tuff, in Artenara, the highest municipality of Gran Canaria.
A pre-Hispanic necropolis on volcanic rock in Agaete, Gran Canaria, with hundreds of burial mounds left by the ancient Canarians.
Historic rum distillery founded in 1884 in Arucas, with visitable cellars where barrels signed by international figures are aged.
A watchtower raised over the sea in 1577 and rebuilt in 1638, popularly known as the Castillo de San Cristóbal and listed as a Historic Artistic Monument in 1922. It formed part of the defensive system guarding the southern approach to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and stayed in military use until the nineteenth century. Today it stands off the San Cristóbal fishing quarter, reached along the Avenida Marítima on foot or by bicycle.
An Aboriginal communal granary with more than 300 silos carved into the rock in Santa María de Guía, in use until the European conquest of the 15th century.
Free Cabildo house-museum in Telde, Gran Canaria, devoted to the León y Castillo brothers. A fine stop to explore 19th-century Canarian history amid period furniture and art.
A 1541 stone fortress on La Isleta in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, now a museum showing work by sculptor Martín Chirino. One of the capital's best-loved historic landmarks.
Leading modern-art museum of the Canaries, in a historic Vegueta building.
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