Museum of Nature and Archaeology (MUNA)
Updated 2 August 2026The MUNA brings together the collections of nature and archaeology of the Canary Islands and preserves the largest existing collection on the Guanche culture, the aborigines of Tenerife before the conquest. Its mummy room shows part of a set that far exceeds a hundred mummies and mummified remains, perfectly cataloged, including the famous Guanche mummies of Necochea, repatriated from Argentina. The museum also includes the Canary Institute of Bioanthropology, a reference in the study and conservation of these remains.
It occupies the Old Civil Hospital of Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados (1745), a neoclassical architecture building declared a Cultural Interest Site, with the category of Monument, in 1983. The natural collections also include Canarian fossils, marine biology, and minerals.
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