Museo Arqueológico de Lanzarote

Arrecife


Tucked into the repurposed mansion of 20th-century lanzaroteño doctor and architect Fermín Rodríguez Bethencourt and his wife Manuela García Parrilla, Lanzarote's 2018-opened archaeology museum romps through the island's long history with excellent multilanguage, multimedia displays ranging from 16th-century ceramic vessels from Seville to an augmented-reality archaeological dig.

At research time, the collection was still expanding, and there's also a changing-exhibitions room.


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