Best Museums in Tenerife

"This brain-bending amalgam of natural science and archaeology is the city’s number one attraction, and one of the best museums in all the Canary Islands. Set inside the former civil hospital, the exhibit highlights are undoubtedly the Guanche mummies and skulls, all of which are shrivelled masses of skin, hair and bone, with faces dried into contorted and grotesque expressions."

"This museum explains the military history of the islands and the successful defence of the city, brought alive by a superb 30m scale model of the flagship Theseus. The most famous item here, however, is El tigre..."

"Completely free and has a wide variety of items, artefacts and memorabilia on display. General military history as well as Canary specific. www.ejercito.mde.es/unidades/Madrid/ihycm/Museos/canarias.html"