The check-in area of the old airport terminal of Guacimeta takes the public of this Aeronautical Museum back to the fifties. This terminal was in operation between 1946 and 1970. But there came a time when tourism growth meant that the airport needed new infrastructure.
This Monday, several representatives of the central government, together with the Airport Director, Dionisio Canomanuel, and the government delegate in Lanzarote, Marcial Martín, visited this old terminal, supported by the explanations of the museum manager, Juan Parrilla.
"On many occasions, we do not take into account what an airport means for an island, and especially for an island that lives on tourism", explained Marcial Martín, insular director of the State Administration. "Most of our wealth enters through the airport."
From 1930, when the first zeppelin flew over Las Palmas, to the models of the planes of the sixties, the different dependencies of this museum house the aeronautical history of Lanzarote.
The building has two floors. On the upper floor, there is the old control tower, the communications and meteorology room. On the ground floor, the check-in area, the main lobby and the cafeteria. On this floor, a screen also projects the first aerial images of the Island, and a reproduction of the mural that César Manrique painted in 1953 continues to preside over the central hall, as a symbol of an island open to the world, which sixty years later, continues to have in Guacimeta its main link with the outside.
