The importance of transportation to the island of La Palma has always been vital, so there is the possibility of visiting the Naval Museum of Santa Cruz de la Palma. The museum is located very close to the Castle of the Virgin, but the most curious thing is that it is aboard The Boat of the Virgin of the Snows, a reproduction of the skull of Cristóbal Columbus that led him to discover America back in 1492. The ship that is now a naval museum has become one of the symbols of the city, which undoubtedly has a seafaring tradition of centuries.

It should be noted that the Naval Museum of Santa Cruz de La Palma has an important collection of objects such as navigational charts, instruments that served the ancient sailors to orientate themselves in high sea, models, graphic documentation, journalistic documentation with an important historical value and large amount of naval material that has been used throughout history.

The collection of elements found in the naval museum is endless, figureheads, logbooks, riparian carpentry tools and many documents that show the importance of navigation for the island.

The Insular Museum of Fine Arts, Natural Sciences and Ethnography is one of the most interesting places you can visit in the Santa Cruz de la Palma, it is located in the facilities of the house of friars of the old Convent of San Francisco de San Cruz de La Palma. This museum was created in 1915 with the collection donated by Senator Pedro Poggio Álvarez, besides this collection also has other funds that have been acquired by the Cabildo Insular between the that you can find works by the local artist Manuel González Méndez.

The museum also has a part devoted to Ethnography, where you can see different elements related to housing, agriculture, gastronomy or textile production.

Finally, it is worth mentioning the part devoted to the natural sciences, in principle it was integrated by the Museum of Natural History of the Royal Society of Cosmology and has been completed with new mineral zoological units.

Other rooms can be highlighted, such as the Carpentry Room of Ribera, where the visitor can see the history of shipbuilding on the island. Another of the rooms is the so-called Silk Room, in which you can see utensils that serve to work this type of fabrics.