Museums & Art
The best museums and art galleries
8 places
Museum of Nature and Archaeology (MUNA)
World's largest collection of Guanche mummies
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
Contemporary art centre in Santa Cruz de Tenerife designed by Herzog & de Meuron, opened in 2008.
House of Wine (El Sauzal)
Tenerife's wine museum, set in a 17th-century Canarian manor house with views of the sea and Mount Teide.
Fine Arts Museum of Santa Cruz
Municipal art gallery founded in 1900, one of the most important in the Canary Islands, beside Plaza del Príncipe.
Museum of Science and the Cosmos
Interactive science museum with planetarium
Almeyda Military Museum
Fortress and museum of the military history of the Canaries (the 25 July 1797 feat against Nelson). Free
Esqueleto de rorcual boreal
The contemporary symbol of Los Silos is the imposing skeleton of a sei whale (rorcual boreal) more than 16 metres long and weighing some twenty tons, displayed on the Charco de la Araña promenade beside the sea. Recovered from a stranding, its bones were rescued, studied, restored and treated as part of the "Sculptures of Nature" project, a pioneer in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, whose aim is environmental awareness and a tribute to the cetaceans of the Canary Atlantic. The piece requires regular maintenance, with sanding and new layers of fibre to protect it from the weather and salt. Open to visit freely all year round, it has become one of the municipality's most recognisable images and an educational resource that recalls the extraordinary richness of whales and dolphins in Canary waters.
Museum of History and Anthropology
Canarian history from Guanches in colonial building