El Museo Canario
El Museo Canario is dedicated to the pre-colonial history of the Canary Islands, and it was created to turn local curiosity into organized research. In 1879, a group of intellectuals led by Dr. Gregorio Chil y Naranjo and Agustín Millares Torres met to set up a historical society. The following year, in 1880, they opened a small museum and library on the second floor of Las Palmas City Hall, with the explicit aim of promoting the study of Canarian history—at a time when there were no higher educational institutions on the island. Their early archaeological work also reflects the scientific fashions of the late 19th century: interest in anthropology had been stirred by the 1868 discovery of “Cro-Magnon man” in France, and the museum founders promoted a then-mistaken idea of links between European Paleolithic populations and the Guanches. After Dr. …
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