Museo de Historia de Tenerife
The Museo de Historia y Antropología de Tenerife opened in December 1993 inside the historic Casa Lercaro, a mansion in San Cristóbal de La Laguna. From there, the museum sets out to map Tenerife’s story from the 15th century to the 20th, tracing institutional, socio-economic, and cultural change across the island. It is also more than a display space: the museum carries out research, rescue, preservation, dissemination, and exhibition of heritage materials, including documentary and bibliographic collections. Behind the scholarship sits the building’s best-known legend. Catalina Lercaro is said to have been driven into a forced marriage with an older, wealthy man, and on her wedding day—so the story goes—she jumped into a pit in the mansion’s courtyard. Since then, many people claim to have seen her spectre moving through the halls, which has made this house one of the Canary Islands’ most famous “haunted” sites.
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