This is perhaps the most important museum on Gran Canaria and it houses an important collection…read morerelating to the prehispanic period. However, it is one of the most old-fashioned museums I have ever been to. There are a number of themed rooms and in some of them are models that do help to explain the history of the era but mainly the museum consists of exhibits in cases with little interpretation. Exhibitions are in Spanish only. It was hard to see why it was considered a good use of space to exhibit hundreds of human skulls, all of which seemed to me very similar! The museum charges very little, and it is worth a visit, but much more could be done and indeed has been done at other museums on the island dealing with this same historical period.

Though this museum is small (I lived in Tenerife for six months before I realized it even existed),…read moreit really is quite wonderful. There is a gallery for temporary exhibitions on the first floor, and the permanent collection is housed on the second floor. The collection is almost exclusively works from the backrooms of the Prado, and it includes both sculpture and painting. There's a small alabaster replica of Canova's Cupid and Psyche, if you're interested. The second floor also has a music hall in which they host concerts, though I never attended any. The museum is so small that you may walk the length of it in about an hour or so, but the art is so nice that it's definitely worth a visit.