10 Museos recomendados en Gran Canaria

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). This museum is managed by a foundation in which the Government of the Canary Islands participates.
Its headquarters are located in the Elder building, which was owned by a former shipping company, which dates from the late nineteenth century and has 6,800 m2 of surface area and 4,600 m2 of exhibition space.

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.

Islands in your relationships with America. The institution is located in a historic building in the neighborhood of Vegueta in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is created from several houses, currently occupies several mazanas. This location was chosen because it was the former Casa del Gobernador and according to some experts was visited by Christopher Columbus in the stop he made on his first trip in 1482 when you discovered America.

The Casa de Colón has become an important cultural reference on the island, within which there are several rooms that serve as sections and where it is possible to know the funds and services of the institution.

• America before its discovery by Christopher Columbus: information about the American population and its culture and is divided into two sections. One of them is Cultura Esmeraldeña and in second place Culturas Mexicanas.
• Cristóbal Colón y sus Viajes.
• The history of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias.
• Paintings from the 16th to the 19th century.

Near the Casa de Colón is the house where Alfredo Kraus was born, with a façade with Gothic decoration flamboyant

several members of the local bourgeoisie headed by Dr. Gregorio Chil y Naranjo and the historian and notary Agustín Millares Torres.
In its headquarters, located in the historic district of Vegueta, a permanent and monographic collection is exhibited about the aboriginal population of the island of Gran Canaria, the Canarii. Regarding its exhibition content, the museum's collection is composed of an innumerable amount of materials, either complete objects, or fragments, coming, in most cases, from Gran Canaria; Completing with materials from other islands of the Canary Islands. Among the collections that it conserves, ceramic containers deserve to be highlighted because of their varied typology and decorative beauty; the terracotta figurines, traditionally considered as idols, as for example the Idol of Tara, with a wide representation for Gran Canaria; and the calls pintaderas, of which more than 200 pieces are available.

Relevant importance also has the collection of anthropological remains that has been studied by different researchers since the beginning of this museum foundation.
The background is completed by numerous pieces of lithic and bone industry, woven in skins and vegetal fibers, malacological material, remains of fauna and vegetable products.
Another important part of El Museo Canario is its documentation center, which is considered the largest and most important collection of documents from and about the Canary Islands. Its origin lies in the creation of the institution itself, since from the very beginning the formation of a library was organized with the contributions of the first partners.That original library did not only have material librarian, but it was nourished of great archival collections and periodic publications.
Currently, the documentation center of El Museo Canario has a library, a file and a library, all of them of great patrimonial importance.
The library preserves printed books dated between the fifteenth century (incunabula) and the present, and tries to collect all publications published in the Canary Islands or by Canarian authors, in addition to collecting the works that have the Canary Islands in their subject. In this collection there are numerous rare and curious books, and even a good number of unique copies.
The archive of El Museo Canario houses fundamental collections for the history of the archipelago, such as the Archive of the Canary Islands Inquisition or the documentary collection of the Fuerte Casa de Adeje. About thirty documentary sets of private and family nature are part of this archive, which highlights the collections generated by such important characters of the insular culture as Benito Pérez Galdós, the brothers Juan and Fernando León y Castillo, José de Viera and Clavijo and many others.
The archive is completed by some historical collections of companies and associations and various artistic and figurative collections, among which the cartographic collection and the photographic archive stand out. The latter fund preserves thousands of photographs of former professionals such as Teodoro Maisch and Luis Ojeda Pérez.
The newspaper library of El Museo Canario, which houses more than a million copies of newspapers and magazines, is the most important collection of this type of document in the Canary Islands. It covers from the first known newspapers, which were distributed in manuscript copies (as is the case of the Correo de Canarias, which circulated between 1762 and 1763), to the current press.The wealth of this fund resides especially in the newspapers dated in the second half of the XIX century and the first years of the XX, since the province of Canarias (province unique at that time) was one of the most fertile of Spain in production of headers of press, a circumstance derived from the remoteness of the most important distribution centers in the country.

documents, as well as a large library and a historical newspaper library.

know in depth the life that the ancient aborigines that inhabited the island took. This kind of Theme Park is called Mundo Aborigen and is dedicated to the way of life, history and culture of the first settlers of the Canary Islands. Through recreations of everyday scenes and the more than 100 life-size figures that make up these scenes it is possible to know the way of life of these first inhabitants.

The beauty of the Fataga ravine implements much more the interest of this theme park on the life of the aborigines, the good weather, the good views and a very unique natural environment are reasons More than enough to visit it.

In addition to the outdoor figures recreating the daily scenes of the aborigines there is also a small building in which remains are found in the Natural Park that will help to understand much better the life thousands of years ago. The site has been declared a Site of Historical, Social and Cultural Interest by Government of the Canary Islands.

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.

conservation, research and dissemination from one of the most unique sites on the island. A program of didactic and dissemination actions regarding its thematic contents is also carried out.

The painted Cave was discovered in the 19th century and is a fantastic example of the artistic representations of the ancient origins of Gran Canaria s. The Cueva de Gáldar is excavated in volcanic material, the walls are decorated by geometric motifs. Experts consider that due to the regular distribution of these reasons makes think that it is a calendar. In addition to these geometric paintings, ancient vestiges of houses have also been found where different utensils and tools were found.

The Museum and Archaeological Park Cueva Pintada de Gálda r was re-inaugurated on July 26, 2006 after being for about 20 years restoring and carrying out works to recover the site. The archaeological complex has a didactic classroom, a laboratory, a library and a multi-purpose room.

catches your attention inside is that it is a traditional house in the historic center of Gran Canaria.

The tour begins with the sounds that the natives created about two thousand years ago and continues with the evolution of the sounds until reaching the traditional music as it is known today.

The interiors of the Néstor Álamo Museum offer rooms of a 17th century manorial building all under the guiding thread of the figure of Néstor Álamo.

Néstor Álamo is a key figure to understand traditional Canarian music and other artistic disciplines of the archipelago. The work of the multifaceted artist covers music, literature, restoration history, etc.

Néstor Álamo began to organize and catalog the file and library of the Canary Museum, ended up being the official chronicler of the island, also composed popular songs like Sombras del Mublo that happened to be the hymn of Gran Canaria, I do not only create the author Canarian song. He was also researcher of the catalog of the Inquisition, gave life to the museum of the Casa de Colón. An entire institution on the island.