Columbus House

The Casa de Colón is a museum dedicated to researching and disseminating the history of the Canary Islands and its fruitful relationship with America, which began five centuries ago with Columbus’ voyages to the New World and is still alive today. It has a unique building, a museum center and a center for research and Americanist studies.

Its permanent collection proposes an approach to the voyages of Columbus, to cartography and navigation instruments, to pre-Columbian America, to Canary-American relations, to the urban geography of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria from the 15th to the 19th centuries and to painting from the 15th to the 20th centuries.

Both in its interior and in its four facades we find a mixture of styles, from Gothic to neo-Canarian, which responds to the integration of nine houses that made up a block in the heart of the city: the oldest, the House of the Governors, and buildings ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The façade of Santa Gadea Mansel, from the 16th century, is the oldest façade, and the best known is the green façade, in the Plaza del Pilar Nuevo. The internal structure follows the distributive schemes of traditional Canarian architecture, articulated around the courtyards.

The project for the Casa de Colón, which opened its doors in 1951 and was gradually expanded, was commissioned by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria to the architect Secundino Zuazo Ugalde, who received historical and artistic advice from Antonio Rumeu de Armas, Néstor Álamo and Santiago Santana.

Services:
Museum, exhibition rooms, Americanist library, documentation center, store.

Guided tours for groups:
Monday to Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., prior registration at deaccolon@grancanaria.com.

Opening hours:
Monday to Saturday: 10:00 to 18:00. Sundays and holidays: from 10:00 to 15:00.