The Centers of Art, Culture and Tourism reopen the doors of the Farmer's House Museum to offer a renewed vision of the sculptural ensemble created by César Manrique in the geographical center of the island.
The visit is transformed into a guided and self-guided tour that allows discovering a new way of looking at the landscape and understanding the territory from the difficulties that the men and women of the countryside overcame.
The Councilor of the Entity, Ángel Vázquez, encourages citizens to visit and enjoy the contents of the new Farmer's House Museum: “it reflects what we were to explain what we are. They are tools, implements, uses and customs, but it is also collective effort, work, perseverance and identity, elements that reveal a new way of looking at and understanding Lanzarote”.
The new Farmer's House Museum
Everything starts and revolves around the Sculpture of Fertility, the imposing work that stands on the Peña de Tajaste to pay homage to those who worked the land in extreme conditions: water scarcity, constant wind, volcanic soil that seemed impossible to cultivate.
The visit is supported by a team of informers and a self-guided tour through QR codes that unfold a narrative integrating architecture, identity, the primary sector, and community, pillars that build the essence of the Centers of Art, Culture and Tourism (the self-guided tour can be downloaded at the link https://cactlanzarote.com/es/casa-museo-del-campesino-paso-paso).
The threshing floor, the cistern, the saddle for riding the camel and the pannier, the hollow container that was filled with sand or other heavy materials and transported on the animal's back. A little further on, a traditional dwelling, a construction with protected courtyards, roofs for collecting rain, thick walls, and flexible spaces where nothing is decorative. In a house where little could fit, each object served two or three functions: wooden boxes served as both seating and storage, wind cots were folded up during the day to save space.
The eruptions of 1730 to 1736 occupy a privileged place in the visit. Not in vain, they were the origin of a unique form of agriculture in the world from a ash that protects the soil and conserves moisture on an island with scarce rainfall.
The transcendence of gofio in the island's diet, a mill, the hallway of plows, the artisanal trades that remain alive… and those that disappeared, the tavern, the ceramics, and Dorotea Armas. Everything is connected through a new modern and interactive narrative that explains Lanzarote through art, nature, identity, and memory.
Visiting hours
The Farmer's House Museum remains open every day, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
Admission is free.
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