Museo de Artesanía Iberoamericana de Tenerife
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.
The museum occupies the former Dominican convent of San Benito Abad in the Villa de La Orotava, also known as the old Santo Domingo convent. The original fabric survives in the stone entrance arch, the cloister, the timber ceilings and the stone staircase, which carry work by the Canarian architect, sculptor and gilder Antonio de Orbarán. The building was restored and reopened as a museum in 1991.
The permanent display runs through ten rooms and covers Iberoamerican and Spanish craftwork, both living and vanished, with more than ten thousand pieces. Among the holdings are the collection of folk art from America and the Philippines, popular musical instruments, Spanish folk pottery, contemporary Canarian ceramics and historic lace and textiles. The museum also programmes temporary exhibitions and runs the documentation centre for Spanish and American craft.
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