Antigua Mill Carft Centre

The Antigua Mill Craft Centre has some beautifully tended gardens with indigenous plants, in which you can find various species of cactus and palm trees.

There is a grainmill next to the gardens, and inside you can see the traditional engineering mechanism.

Services: These include a conference room, an audiovisual room, and also an art exhibition room, with a complex where you can enjoy the island's culture which has flourished over the years.
You can also see an art exhibition entitled Six Painters and One Island.
School and group visits, etc: Contact telephone number 928 86 23 00 (Unamuno House Museum).

Visiting hours: Tuesday to Friday and Sunday from 9:30 to 17:30.
Closed Monday and Saturday.

Location: Antigua

La Cilla House Grain Museum

La Cilla House, dating from 1819, houses a Grain Museum, where the visitor can see the history of the traditional agricultural cycle, its relation with the climatological seasons, the different types of grain and traditional measures, and a collection of agricultural implements related with the development of what used to be the island's main economic activity: agriculture.

Services: School and group visits, etc: Contact telephone number 928 86 23 00 (Unamuno House Museum).

Visiting Hours: Tuesday to Friday and Sunday 9:30 to 17:30. Closed Monday and Saturday.

Location: La Oliva

Windmill Interpretive Centre

This centre, located in a traditional house, offers information about the different milling elements used on the island over time, and also its culture.

You can see elements such as the rudimentary mortar, the handmill, flourmill parts and a windmill.

There is a windmill outside the house which was traditionally used to make cornmeal and flour. You will be able to see how it works and the milled product.

If you would like to find out more about these mills on the island, you can follow the route of the mills and visit those of La Oliva, Tefia and La Antigua.

Services: Didactic elements, car park, café. School and group visits, etc: Contact telephone number 928 86 23 00 (Unamuno House Museum).

Visiting Hours: Tuesday to Friday and Sunday from 9:30 to 17:30.
Closed Monday and Saturday.

Location: Tiscamanita

La Alcogida Museum

This EcoMuseum is a settlement made up of 7 houses which are representative of traditional Fuerteventuran architecture. These houses have been restored respecting traditional architectural shapes and using the same building materials as those used many years ago. The EcoMuseum recreates rural life with craft, cattle-raising and agricultural activities, carried out in situ. It also has two ethnographic houses furnished with elements to evoke the daily life of country families.
Traditional food is available in the EcoMuseum cafeteria.

Services: Cafeteria, craftwork demonstrations, EcoMuseum house, car park, traditional games (hoops, sack race, skipping, children's workshops, etc), traditional bread, craft shop and audio-guides. School and group visits, etc: Contact Telephone Number 928 86 23 00 (Unamuno House Museum).

Visitng Times: Tuesday to Friday and Sunday from 9:30 to 17:30.
Closed Monday and Saturday.

Location: Tefía

Betancuria Museum

This house of traditional architecture can be found in Calle Roberto Roldán, in the historic quarter of Betancuria, and has been especially restored and equipped for such a purpose.

Of the five rooms given over to the exhibition, two contain archaeological material, two contain paleontological elements, and one contains ethographic objects. The first is for the display of archaeological pieces, with models, texts detailing the first European expeditions to the Canary Islands, to the natural resources of the Island of Fuerteventura and to the material culture of the Mahos. The second room recreates the magic-religious world of the aborigines, with a display of idols, texts and photos. In this section you can find a large exhibition of pottery of different types and sizes. The palaeontology section has a set of boards to explain the paleoclimatic evolution of the island. The exhibition ends with samples of different fossils found in the main paleontological sites. The second palaeontology room has an interesting display of skeletal material from the excavations carried out in Cueva de Villaverde, in the municipal area of La Oliva, together with boards explaining the study of this material. In the ethnography part, there is an exhibition of objects such as bowls, lanterns, hide bags, handmills, mortars, and a small display of aboriginal and local pottery.

Services: Guide about the prehistory of the island published in three languages, a collection of illustrations of different paleontological aspects and the paleoclimatic evolution of Fuerteventura. School and group visits, etc: Contact telephone number 928 86 23 00 (Unamuno House Museum).

Visiting Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00 to 17:00 and Sunday from 11:00 to 14:00. Closed Monday.

Location: Betancuria

Unamuno Museum Home

The Unamuno House Museum is in the former Hotel Fuerteventura, where Miguel de Unamuno stayed during his exile on the island. Here in the house, you can see the spaces and the objects which were familiar to Unamuno, together with photos and texts which flowed from his pen and which demonstrate the intense relation that the writer had with Fuerteventura.

Visiting Hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 13:00 and 17:00 to 19:00, Saturday from 9:00 to 13:00. Closed Sunday.

Location: Puerto del Rosario