Museo Diocesano de Arte Sacro
The Museo Diocesano de Arte Sacro is tucked into the Patio de Los Naranjos on the south side of the Catedral de Canarias, a courtyard created in the 1600s. The museum opened on 20 December 1984, using rooms that once served cathedral purposes, and it remains directly connected to the church through the renascentista “puerta del Aire”. Inside, the most distinctive space is the Sala de la Seda, built with exposed ashlar and a roof of volcanic stone and Canary pine. It originally stored the cathedral’s treasury, and it now presents microimaginería—tiny devotional images—alongside a visible timeline of wood carving, from older 16th-century works such as Santa Catalina to more stylized Baroque crucifixes from the 18th and 19th centuries, including those attributed to José Luján Pérez. …
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