Casa de los Balcones or Casa Fonseca is a house of La Orotava, on the island of Tenerife in the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands, characterized by its balconies and interior carved wood patio. It was built in the year 1715 (there are some publications that mark the year 1632) and stands out, above all, for the carved tea balcony it has on its upper floor.

Precisely the balcony of the upper floor (it has three floors) is made of Canarian pine tea wood and is shown as a carved and run set, of great beauty.

On the second floor, on its facade, you can see five other individual balconies, these of iron, while on the first floor, two large windows on each side flank the access door, studded.

Inside it stands out its inner courtyard in two heights, which is surrounded by wooden columns topped in Corinthian capitals that support a very rich wooden balustrade and happily colored by its lush vegetation. Interestingly, to access the upper floor you have to do it through a spiral staircase made in Canarian pine tea, so traditional in local colonial architecture. The superior rooms are those that house the museum of the House of the Balconies.

The House of Balconies also has a center for teaching, promotion and dissemination of typical handicrafts so that they are not lost. It has its own store where these typical Canarian products are sold.

You can also visit the House of Eladia Machado, former workshop of jigsaw founded in 1932. The building stands out for its plateresque doorway with side columns, and its narrow upper balcony.

Located in one of the most prominent buildings of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the Museum of Nature and Archeology (MUNA) formerly known as Museum of Nature and Man, in what used to be the old Civil Hospital of Our Lady of the Forsaken, which dates from 1745 and that a major remodeling in the 19th century left it with the current appearance .

The facade of the Museum stands out because it is a clear example of the neoclassical architecture of the Canarian archipelago, this made the building declared Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of Monument in 1983.

The importance of the museum is vital, in its facilities you can get to know deeply the natural wealth that all the islands of the Canarian archipelago harbor. You can also find a lot of information and a collection about Guanche culture, which was the aboriginal people that inhabited the island of Tenerife before the European conquerors arrived there.

Of what is exhibited in the museum, perhaps the most interesting part is that dedicated to archeology and the Aboriginal Funeral World, as well as a large number of non-mummified Guanche skulls, located in a large showcase. Also worth mentioning are the Guanche pottery vessels and Roman amphoras along with other archaeological artifacts such as the Piedra Zanata.

The Museum of History and Anthropology known by its acronym MHA, is located in the Casa Lercaro in the city of San Cristóbal de la Laguna, municipality declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1999.

The building dates back to the end of the 16th century, when a family of merchants who came to the island from Genoa after the conquest began construction, this family were the Lercaro.

The Museum of History and Anthropology was inaugurated in 1993, the objective of the opening of this museum is to spread the historical evolution of the island of Tenerife. The museum offers a vision of the development that the island has had in the institutional, social, economic and cultural between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries.

In the museum numerous activities are carried out, research, conservation, dissemination of funds and collections of the history of the island are carried out. The programming of activities that takes place in the MHA is very broad, they are both cultural and didactic activities.

The Museum has a vocation to be a point for historical memory and reflection on contemporary culture, to study the past and lay the foundations for both the present and the future of the Island.

The most curious of the Museum of Science and the Cosmos that are in San Cristóbal de La Laguna is that it is not a traditional museum. It is one of those museums whose objective is not simply to see scientific experiments or what techniques are used, what this type of museums want is to disseminate science in a fun, entertaining and interactive way. Using the means available in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos and with the collaboration of visitors, the visit will be an unforgettable experience for young and old.

The Museum of Science and the Cosmos was created in 1993, belongs to the Autonomous Organization of Museums and Centers of the Cabildo of Tenerife, was promoted by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias with the acronym IAC.

This museum is considered the most important museum of science and astronomy in the Canary archipelago and one of the most important in Spain. Among the elements to be highlighted within the facilities, we should mention the Planetarium or the Interstellar Trip that can be seen through holograms.

Those who visit the museum will be able to experience all the available experiences first hand, it is possible to know the principles of nature, the functioning of the human body or the stars.

• The Ruta Botánica presents dozens of endemic species of the Canarian flora.
• The Export Route shows those products that represented the livelihood of the Canarian people over the last five centuries.
• The Cultural Route reveals aspects of Canarian history, culture and ethnography.
• The Volcanic Route reveals the volcanic origin of the archipelago and its volcanic episodes.

The Contemporary Art Room is located in the House of Culture of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Parque de la Granja.