Casa del Carnaval
The Casa del Carnaval is a museum in Santa Cruz de Tenerife devoted to a festival with the status of Fiesta de Interés Turístico Internacional. Its story is unusually long for a building: in 1985, the city council appointed Enrique González Bethencourt to direct the future carnival museum, and he was tied to the founding and leadership of the Afilarmónica NiFú-NiFá, often regarded as a foundational figure for Canarias’ murgas. Several plans followed—first for a site on Calle Ángel Guimerá, then for a multi-storey project near the Campo Castro, and later proposals to place it in the old fairground area. The museum you see today emerged from a smaller concept: a “casa de interpretación” called “Serpentinas y Confetis.” Work began in 2016 in an unused space in the Barranco de Santos, and the museum opened 28 June 2017. …
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