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We've compiled the best of the best in Santa Cruz de Tenerife - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
This museum is the leader in contemporary art on the islands due to its sleek low-rise design and avant-garde exhibitions. Designed by the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, it's next to the Museo de Naturaleza y Arqueología. Expect 20th- and 21st-century art with a political or sociological bent. TEA's crown jewel is the hall dedicated to tinerfeño surrealist artist Óscar Domínguez.
This 14-room, two-story gallery on Plaza Príncipe de Asturias is lined with canvases by Breughel, Coecke, and Ribera as well as other famed works created between the 16th and 20th centuries. Many memorialize local events.
