Casa Museo Pérez Galdós

Benito Pérez Galdós was a novelist, dramatist, chronicler and politician who was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canarias and who best represents the realist novel of the 19th century. The writer lived on the island until he was 19 years old when he moved to Madrid.

As a tribute to this illustrious citizen of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, the house museum that bears his name was opened in a traditional 19th century house in the Vegueta district. The building has all the characteristics of domestic architecture of the nineteenth century, its distribution follows the traditional model around two central courtyards, maintaining both the structure and the original materials, although some modifications were made to turn it into a museum.

In the Casa-Museo Pérez Galdós there is a permanent exhibition about the writer, the different rooms are conceived as a well-documented recreation of the domestic and family environments in which life passed from Pérez-Galdós.

Distributed by its salts you can see different pieces of furniture, works of art, photographs, many decorative objects, musical instruments and a long list of elements that describe the everyday environment of the writer in the 19th century.