The Canary Museum prepares the opening of a new headquarters in the Casa Condal de Maspalomas. The initiative was presented on April 15 at the Casa Condal's own facilities by Diego López Díaz, president of El Museo Canario, and Marco Aurelio Pérez, mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana. It is an exciting project that is made possible thanks to the collaboration between the two institutions. This agreement will allow in the last quarter of 2016 the southern municipality to have a new cultural reference of the first order, while The Canary Museum opens a way of communication with residents and visitors of the main tourist center of the isla
nd. The new rooms will be dedicated to the history of Gran Canaria from its geological formation to the present day, with a structured tour in nine sections corresponding to many other historical episodes. The visitor will get a chronological view of the island through its formation, human colonization, the Aboriginal population, the ways of life after the Castilian conquest and the various socioeconomic changes until reaching the current model of tourism exploitation. These themes will be treated and materialized by different museum resources (texts, audiovisuals, documentary material, archaeological and paleontological material, installations…). It will be avoided to offer a flat and aseptic history; on the contrary, it has been considered necessary to opt for compromise, so that social inequality, women, marginal groups, slavery, ideological repression… are elements that acquire voice. Th
e Canary Museum. Maspalomas was born as a branch of The Canary Museum, and therefore has all the material resources and professional rigor that characterize the institution. With these premises, the headquarters of Maspalomas is constituted as an exhibition of a theme much broader than that of the historical museum, and arises with the aim of contributing to the best understanding of our history and the current Canarian society, encouraging and incentivizing the interest of foreign visitors so that after the visit to this new exhibition they are tempted to know the Canary Museum of Las Palmas and other cultural centers of Gran Canaria.