Casa-Museo Tomás Morales

The Casa-Museo Tomas Morales is a public entity under the Ministry of Culture of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria.

The museum is located in the birthplace and family home of the poet Tomás Morales (1884-1921) in Villa de Moya, Gran Canaria. Poet formed in Modernism, who knew how to adapt the luxury expressive and musical motifs of the sea and his native island. With his work unit "Roses of Hercules" is part of the great innovators who opened a path to contemporary Spanish poetry.

The property was acquired by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria to the heirs of the poet in 1966 and inaugurated House Museum in October 1976.

Born with biographical and historical vocation in order to safeguard the memory and ensure the projection of the work of the modernist poet, production transferred island borders and into the Spanish modernist culture.

The work of the Casa-Museo Tomas Morales, management, consists primarily of the following:

• Save the word and memory of the poet and other similar or complementary legacies, study, disseminate and transmit them to society.
• Reconstruct the intimacy of the author for the visitor conjures him there lived, as a way of approaching the author through his family space.
• To demonstrate these interior and exterior spaces of the author for understanding his work. Given their specificity house museum of writer its uniqueness lies in the intimacy of the author above even housing funds.

The theme of the museum is extended to the historical and literary context in which it developed or conceived part of his literary output. The content thereof is composed of objects or memories closely linked to the author and varied in nature, based on the legacy of the poet.

On a tour of various rooms, visitors can approach the knowledge of human and literary figure of the poet, through the documental and museographic heritage is preserved and exhibited in this institution, and also includes the whole forming personal items , furniture and pieces of art that houses the museum, in addition to everything related to the life and work of the "poet of the sea" and the influence that their home environment was both.

Services: Documentation Centre (Library-Archives, Newspaper Archive) Queries the file: upon request to the museum Department of Education and Cultural Action (DEAC) Scheduled visits: previously agreed with the educational department of the museum. Temporary exhibitions halls

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