Gran Canaria Museums
Casa de Colón
E-mail: casacolon@grancanaria.com
Website: www.casadecolon.com
Telephone: 0034 928 312 373
Architectural complex, including what was originally the Island
Governors’ House, now over five hundred years old. The rooms
of the museum are mainly devoted to the New World and the role
played by the Canary Islands in its Discovery. Paintings from
the fifteenth and sixteeenth centuries and works on loan from
the Prado Art gallery in Madrid. Christopher Columbus House contains
a museum and an area of scientific studies, in addition to a library
that specialises in the history of America and Atlantic relations.
Every two years, Columbus House hosts a Colloquium on Canarian-American
History, which is attended by researchers from all over the world.
Columbus House also presents seminars, conferences and courses,
while also awarding prizes for research.
Casa Museo Pérez Galdós
E-mail: perezgaldos@grancanaria.com
Website: www.casamuseoperezgaldos.com
Telephone: 928 366 976/373745
Museum installed in the house where the writer Benito Pérez
Galdós was born and lived until the year 1862. The exhibition
rooms display part of the furniture from the Galdós family
houses in Madrid and Santander, as well as the Gran Canaria writer’s
library, archives and personal possessions. Quite apart from the
sentimental value that this house enjoys, it is also one of the
houses that is most representative of 18th century Canarian architecture.
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno
E-mail: info@caam.net
Website: www.caam.net
Telephone: 0034 902 311 824
The scope of the centre´s research and analysis is focused
on the creative processes of the 20th century, with special emphasis
on the interpretation of historical avant-garde movements and
the most contemporary manifestations of art. To this end, the
centre holds a continuous succession of temporary exhibitions,
either on its own or in collaboration with the main art centre
of the world. These exhibitions cover the essential trends and
artists of 20th century art. In addition, the centre continues
to expand its own collection of culturally important artistic
works, drawing on the artists ouput of the Canary Islands, as
well as the works of recognised Spanish and international artists.
The centre also has a programme of courses, conferences and seminars,
which are presented in parallel with each exhibition.
Museo Canario
Website: www.elmuseocanario.com
Telephone: 0034 928 336 800
This scientific and cultural institution was
founded in 1879 as a place where archaeological and ethnographical
collections and materials, as well as artistic creations, are
preserved, studied and exhibited. The museum also has a library
and archive that specialise in matters relating to the Canaries.
Right from its creation, the museum was conceived as a society
that would promote the development of the sciences, the humanities
and the arts, placing special emphasis on matters that are linked
to the Canaries. At the outset, the museum contained only the
collections and objects that were donated by Dr. Chil, as well
as the other founders and friends of the society, but these were
supplemented in two ways: firstly, through archaeological excursions
and, secondly, through the acceptance of donations and the acquisition
of objects. From 1944, the museum was incorporated into the High
Council of Scientific Research and from 1984 it modernised and
specialised its contents, focusing mainly on archaeological resources
that relate to the pre-Hispanic cultures of the Canary Islands.
The collections, as well as the archaeological, library and documentary
resources of the museum, constitute an obligatory point of reference
for all those who research and study the culture of the Canary
Islands, as well as anybody who may be curious about any aspect
of Canarian culture. It is justifiably the biggest centre that
is specialised in the archipelago.