On the occasion of International Museum Day, which takes place around the world every May 18, the Canary Museum has prepared a programme of activities that will run between Monday 13th a
nd Friday 31st.Activities begin on the morning of the 13th with the presentation of an ambitious new research project entitled "Bodies , objects and spaces. Converging deaths, divergent deaths." It is a project selected in the "Call for Aid to Research Projects 2018" of the CajaCanarias Foundation and the Fundación Bancaria La Caixa, and aims to advance the knowledge of the different societies that have inhabited the island of Gran Canaria from the Aboriginal period until the mid-19th century. The presentation will include a guided tour by the project's research team, which will show some of the materials to be studied. Between the
13th and 16th a cycle of conferences is held that gloss the different intellectual facets of the founder of El Museo Canario. "Gregorio Chil y Naranjo. The future of tradition" is the title of this cycle, organized jointly with the Fundación Canaria Telesforo Bravo-Juan Coello and which has lectures by Teresa Delgado Darias (conservative of The Canary Museum), Fernando Betancor Pérez (archiver of the institution), Matilde Arnay de la Rosa (professor of Prehistory at the University of La Laguna), and Agustín Millares Cantero (professor of history of the University of Las Palmas).
From 17 to 31 May the museum rooms host the temporary exhibition "Sharing Heritage (2000-2019)", in which The Canary Museum shows some of the archaeological and documentary pieces that have traveled to other museums and cultural institutions for different exhibitions in the last two decades. The exhibition opens on the 17th at 18:00 h. with a guided tou
r. On Saturday, May 18, International Museum Day, is open day in The Canary Museum, with free admission 10:00 h. 14:00 p.m. In addition, the center adds this day to the European Night of the Museums, so it reopens its doors between 19:00 and 22:00 h., also with free entrance, and stages the concert "Women in music creation", which is framed in the project "Music of women in the classrooms" and has students of the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias and the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Las Palmas de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , coordinated by
Laura Vega.For May 21 at 7 p.m. one of the most emotional events organized annually by The Canary Museum is scheduled. This is the award of the Loyalty Award, an act of recognition to members who are 50 years old. This time is recognized the commitment of the partners Luis Alberto Anaya Hernández, Gonzalo Angulo González, Eduardo Artiles León, Juan Manuel Báez Hernández, Antonio Cardona Sosa, Francisco Fajardo Spínola, Faustino García Márquez, María Teresa Hernández Sánchez, Pedro José Hidalgo Ferrera, Pedro Limiñana Romero, Gonzalo Melián García, Víctor Morales Lezcano, Antonio Orihuela Domínguez, Carlos Platero Fernández, Cándido Rodríguez Ruano and Elena Suárez Manrique de
Lara.The Archive of the Inquisition of the Canary Islands is the protagonist. The Documentation Center of The Canary Museum has scheduled for 18:00 h. a guided tour with the title "Accessing the Chamber of Secrecy: the Holy Canary Office and its archive".
With this program, The Canary Museum joins the activities of international Museum Day, an annual event convened by ICOM (International Council of Museums) and that this year focuses on the new roles that museums play as active actors in their communities, for which the international body has chosen the motto "Museums as cultural axes : The future of tradition". D