10 Museums in Gran Canaria That You Shouldn't Miss

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Christopher Columbus' house is now a history museum, displaying several of his belongings, including his drawings, journals and a portrait.

Cueva Pintada, after which the site was named, was discovered in the mid 19th century and is part of a group of artificial caves excavated in the volcanic rock.. Its geometrical motifs make it the most unique representation of the Pre-Hispanic wall paintings, an exceptional testimony of the artistic and symbolic expression of the people of the Canary Islands. Excavations made here since 1987 until today have confirmed the fact that Cueva Pintada used to be part of a village with over fifty houses and artificial caves dating back from the 6th to the 16th centuries.The remains of the indigenous village of Cueva Pintada can be admired from a walkway surrounding those structures preserved, which allows visitors to look at the detail of the houses and indigenous caves.

The Tomas Morales Museum-House is located in the house where poet Tomas Morales (1884-1921) was born. Bought by the Gran Canaria Island Council to the poet’s heirs in 1966, it was inaugurated as museum-house on 25th October, 1976, in order to pay tribute to one of the illustrious sons of Gran Canaria. Consisting of a two story building of the beginning of 19th Century, it is one of the most representative examples of Canary traditional architecture still preserved in the town of Moya. Visitors can tour through all the rooms where poet Tomas Morales lived and spent his childhood and youth, which also include a series of personal items, original furniture and belongings, as well as abundant original documentation - manuscripts, gallery proofs, personal and family documents, pictures, books …

Antonio Padrón Museum-House: As indigenous research and art centre, this institution belongs to the Gran Canaria Island Council, created with the aim to acquire, preserve, study, exhibit and disseminate the works from this painter born in Gáldar (Gran Canaria) and the movement that raised the need of founding a Canary art tradition which could reflect both island identity features and a way of seeing Nature and interpreting its social reality from the indigenous side. This monographic museum has experienced a long history of over 40 years within the cultural environment of this town and the island. Settled in the former workshop of the artist, it contains the most complete collection of Padrón's works.

This is the house where writer and dramatist Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was born. He is regarded as the most important Spanish writer after Cervantes, as well as the main representative of the literary Realism in Spain, like Balzac, Zola and Flaubert in France, Fontane in Germany and Dickens in the United Kingdom. The House - Museum features furniture, works of art, ornaments, etc. that show both one of the places where the novelist spent his daily life and the atmosphere of a typical 19 th-century house in the Canary Islands.