Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife is an art museum in the city of Santa Cruz on the Spanish island of Tenerife. It is located on Calle Jose Murphy below the Plaza del Príncipe de Asturias.

History

The museum was founded in 1840, when the municipality of Santa Cruz decided to keep the flags of the British fleet, which had been left behind in 1797 in the attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife ( 1797) the British navy under Rear- Admiral Nelson appropriate. Today's built in the style of classicism museum building was designed in 1929 by architect Eladio Laredo Carranza. It was built after the demolition of the former Franciscan monastery of San Pedro Alcántara on the western part of the property.

The Collection

The museum displays next to a series of images of Dutch painters of the 16th century and other works of European art history and the 19th century a collection of Canarian artists, such as Gaspar de Quevedo, Cristóbal Hernández de Quintana, Juan de Miranda, Gonzalez Mendez, Valentin Sanz, Francisco Bonnin Guerín, Guillermo Sureda Arbelo, Alfaro, Guezala, Pedro Gonzalez and Oscar Dominguez

About 40 of these images Flemish masters come from the collections of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the Dutch collection includes approximately 3,500 objects. One of the masterpieces of the museum is the Nava - Grimón triptych.