Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife

The museum is located at the Plaza del Príncipe de Asturias. Admission is free and it's open until 20:00. There is also complementary WiFi - no password needed but you must sign in with your phone number. Surprisingly there are Braille signs for the art (but a blind person cannot touch the art). I thought the third floor was best. Many of the works had QR codes for more information about them. On the second floor much of the art is not labeled. The first floor has temporary exhibits.

I really enjoyed wandering through this museum. There are halls with paintings that cover entire walls — the rooms feel bright and spacious, and there are hardly any visitors, so you can take your time and actually look.

The building itself feels like part of the experience. The facade is decorated with 10 busts of famous tinerfeños (people from Tenerife) — including Teobaldo Power and Ángel Guimerá.

Most of the collection features local painters and sculptors, which makes it a great place to get a sense of Tenerife’s artistic history.

A Flemish triptych from 1546 — Tríptico de Nava y Grimón (The Nativity of Christ), considered the museum’s most famous piece.

What a hidden delight and such an undiscovered gem. I have lived in Tenerife for 5 years and haven’t known about this museum. Completely blown away!

Free entry, staff helpful and nice. Not a very big collection but some very interesting pieces. Most artworks are historical (interesting art from the Canary Islands) although they have a small room with local contemporary works and then another one for temporary exhibitions, which was closed between exhibitions when I came. Recommendable museum!

Visited this free museum as tourist information recommended this on visit to Tenerife in January 2025. The museum has some very fine art and you can sit on bench and look at it. They do make you put any drinks into locker so you don't try to ruin the painters I'm guessing. After looking around and taking pics me and my friend decided to look downstairs on the ground floor which was some very questionable photographs not paintings but actual photos of a nude person which should come with a warming as was not expecting to see that. Literally left traumatised not sure why they was a whole room of these and why they didn't come with a warning. Not sure if that was a exhibition of nude pics and gets changed regularly or this person had made a big donation to museum or something but be aware if taking kids to that ground floor room.