Museum of the History of Tenerife

Museum of the History of Tenerife

The Museum of History and Anthropology of Tenerife, part of the Autonomous Organism of Museums and the Cabildo de Tenerife. It opened in December 1993 in the property known as "Casa Lercaro" in San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain).

The museum holds out the prospect of spreading the history of the island of Tenerife, offering an overview of institutional, socio-economic and cultural development of the island, from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century.

The museum also performs a task of research, rescue, preservation, dissemination and exhibition of heritage treasure pieces, documentary and bibliographic.

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