Museums in Lanzarote

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.

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Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Castillo de San José

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.

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Aloe Plus Lanzarote - Museo del Aloe Vera de Punta Mujeres

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.

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Aloe Plus Lanzarote - Museo del Aloe Vera de Punta Mujeres

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.

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Museo Etnográfico Tanit

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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Museo Etnográfico Tanit

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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Casa Museo José Saramago, "A Casa"

The house where José Saramago spent his last years, library and study kept as he left them; closed on Sundays.

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Casa Museo José Saramago, "A Casa"

The house where José Saramago spent his last years, library and study kept as he left them; closed on Sundays.

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Castillo de Santa Bárbara - Museo de la Piratería

Fortress atop the Guanapay volcano beside Teguise, housing a museum devoted to the history of piracy in Lanzarote.

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Castillo de Santa Bárbara - Museo de la Piratería

Fortress atop the Guanapay volcano beside Teguise, housing a museum devoted to the history of piracy in Lanzarote.

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Casa-Museo César Manrique (Haría)

César Manrique's last house-studio in Haría, kept as he left it, with his work and its palm-tree garden.

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Casa-Museo César Manrique (Haría)

César Manrique's last house-studio in Haría, kept as he left it, with his work and its palm-tree garden.

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Castillo de San Gabriel

A sixteenth century fortress on the islet that closes the bay of Arrecife, the first defensive building on Lanzarote, from 1587, when pirate and corsair raids made a stronghold necessary. Reached on foot from the seafront over the Puente de las Bolas, a drawbridge topped by two stone spheres and now the city's image. From the walls and roof terrace the view runs along the waterfront, the harbour and the Charco de San Ginés. Inside is the Museo de la Historia de Arrecife.

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Castillo de San Gabriel

A sixteenth century fortress on the islet that closes the bay of Arrecife, the first defensive building on Lanzarote, from 1587, when pirate and corsair raids made a stronghold necessary. Reached on foot from the seafront over the Puente de las Bolas, a drawbridge topped by two stone spheres and now the city's image. From the walls and roof terrace the view runs along the waterfront, the harbour and the Charco de San Ginés. Inside is the Museo de la Historia de Arrecife.

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Monumento al Campesino, escultura de César Manrique

At the Peña de Tajaste, in the geographical centre of Lanzarote, stands Fecundidad, the sculpture designed by César Manrique and built by Jesús Soto in 1968. Its fifteen metres are assembled from the water tanks of old ships, welded together and painted white against black volcanic ground. It is a tribute to the island farmer and to the water that made his agriculture possible. The Casa Museo del Campesino stands beside it.

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Monumento al Campesino, escultura de César Manrique

At the Peña de Tajaste, in the geographical centre of Lanzarote, stands Fecundidad, the sculpture designed by César Manrique and built by Jesús Soto in 1968. Its fifteen metres are assembled from the water tanks of old ships, welded together and painted white against black volcanic ground. It is a tribute to the island farmer and to the water that made his agriculture possible. The Casa Museo del Campesino stands beside it.

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Museo Agrícola El Patio

One of the oldest and largest farming estates on Lanzarote, in Tiagua, now an ethnographic museum that preserves gofio windmills, a wine cellar and the tools of traditional country life.

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Museo Agrícola El Patio

One of the oldest and largest farming estates on Lanzarote, in Tiagua, now an ethnographic museum that preserves gofio windmills, a wine cellar and the tools of traditional country life.

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El Grifo - Museo del Vino

A wine museum at the heart of the El Grifo winery in San Bartolomé, with origins documented to 1775 and a collection of historic winemaking machinery amid the vineyards of La Geria.

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El Grifo - Museo del Vino

A wine museum at the heart of the El Grifo winery in San Bartolomé, with origins documented to 1775 and a collection of historic winemaking machinery amid the vineyards of La Geria.

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Casa-Museo y Monumento al Campesino

A Monument to Fertility over 15 m high by César Manrique with Jesús Soto, at the geographic centre of Lanzarote, beside a free-entry ethnographic museum.

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Casa-Museo y Monumento al Campesino

A Monument to Fertility over 15 m high by César Manrique with Jesús Soto, at the geographic centre of Lanzarote, beside a free-entry ethnographic museum.

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Museo LagOmar

A villa-museum carved into a former volcanic quarry, with lava caves, tunnels, secret passages and a lagoon, conceived by César Manrique and Jesús Soto.

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Museo LagOmar

A villa-museum carved into a former volcanic quarry, with lava caves, tunnels, secret passages and a lagoon, conceived by César Manrique and Jesús Soto.

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