Casa-Museo Antonio Padrón
Antonio Padrón is the reason this house exists as a public museum: he was born in 1920 and lived, worked, and died in this very home in Gáldar. The museum’s creation began with his family; an agreement among the heirs—supported by his aunt, Dolores Rodríguez—ensured the artworks housed in his studio remained there after he died. On 6 May 1933, Dolores Rodríguez Ruiz submitted a request to the Gáldar town hall to build a two-storey house on Calle Capitán Quesada, with a functionalist project created in 1931 by Miguel Martín-Fernández de la Torre. Decoration and furnishings involved the studio of Richard Van Oppel, adding an experimental design layer to a building that was later described as regionalist. More than 150 works filled the house, spanning from Padrón’s early academic studies to the unfinished painting *Piedad*, which he was working on in his final days. …
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