Museo de las Cuevas

In Artenara it is possible to find a large number of caves that were inhabited by the first inhabitants of the island. So much is the importance of this type of construction in the area that they even have a hermitage that has been excavated in stone.

To make this type of constructions much better known, there is the Ethnographic Museum or Museum of the Caves located in what used to be a house occupied in pre-Hispanic times by the pre-Hispanic population. The place where the Museum of the Cave Houses was acquired in 1962 by don Santiago Aranda and was restored maintaining the characteristics of the typical home traditional Artenara.

There are several rooms that have been excavated in the rock, you can see a kind of warehouse, caves with ceramics, rooms or a kitchen with all the elements with which food was elaborated in the past.

The interiors of the museum are equipped with characteristic furniture, you can see iron beds, with bedspreads and blankets made according to municipal tradition, boxes of cedar, tea, chairs. All these elements show the extensive local craftsmanship that takes place. The House Museum of the Caves also has a patio with views from where you can see the Barranco Grande.