The Canary Museum opens on Wednesday, June 6, at 12:00 hours, the exhibition "The Art of Writing and Restoring Memory. Teguise, 600 years of written history", organized by the City Council of Teguise and curated by Víctor M. Bello and Félix Delgado. It seeks to show the importance of documentary heritage and to highlight the necessary preservation and restoration of the deed and the documents that make up it. For this purpose, the history of the Lanzarote town of Teguise, whose foundation by Maciot de Bethencourt is now 600 years old, is taken as a common th
read. Along with a sample of various writing instruments used over the centuries, the rich funds of the archive of the Scientific Society The Canary Museum are the protagonists of this exhibition, in which you can contemplate relevant documents of interest for the history of the archipelago and especially of the island of Lanzarote. Highlights, for example, a notebook of agreements of the municipality of Teguise in which the appointment of Rodrigo de Barrios Leme as mayor and ordinary judge of this island was established in 1618; or a factory book of the parish church of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Teguise also dated to the seventeenth century. In addition, visitors will be able to examine various 16th-century inquisitorial documents that reflect practices such as slavery or sorcery. This exhibi
tion, which has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of El Museo Canario with the City Council of Teguise, arrives in Gran Canaria as the last stop after having traveled throughout the archipelago. Previously it has been shown in Teguise, Arrecife, Puerto del Rosario, Santa Cruz de La Palma, San Sebastián de La Gomera, Valverde and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In the Canary Museum you can visit for free until July 6 hours from 15:00 to 20:00 h., being able to arrange group visits in the morning hours.