Museo de Las Salinas del Carmen (Museo de la Sal)
A salt museum set within the only active saltworks on Fuerteventura, by the sea in Antigua. It shows traditional salt-making and lets you be a salt maker for a day.
The Museo de las Salinas del Carmen (Museo de la Sal) sits on the coast of Antigua, in Fuerteventura, integrating a museum within active sea salt pans devoted to salt production and history. It is the only working saltworks on the island, and the salt pans were founded in 1910 by Manuel Velázquez Cabrera.
The site covers around 26,100 m2 made up of 10 evaporation ponds and nearly 1,000 crystallisation basins (tajos), and includes the salt warehouse, the salt worker's house and remains of a historic jetty. The salt is produced using the sea-foam technique and daily traditional raking, yielding a fine-grained white sea salt rich in trace elements.
The museum offers hands-on experiences to become a salt worker for a day, the El 36 restaurant, event space rental and an online salt shop. It keeps alive a craft and a distinctive salt-pan landscape of Fuerteventura.
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