Juan Ismael Art Centre

One ground-floor show here made the case for sending indigenous artefacts, the Guanche mummy among them, back to the places they were taken from. Another filled the rooms with Chema Madoz's photographs, the kind of pictures that make you look twice at an everyday object. That range is the draw: the programme rotates, so what hangs on the walls depends on when you come, and it reaches beyond painting to live performance, contemporary dance included.

The galleries are clean and well kept, and the staff are friendly. A visit is brief, which is why it slots in neatly halfway along a walk on the seafront.

• The doors shut over the middle of the day, so a visit falls in either the morning or the evening session.
• Between exhibitions the galleries close while the next show goes up, and a new exhibition can open in the evening.
• There is no café inside. Toilets are on site.
• A visit takes between fifteen minutes and half an hour.

The centre stands in the streets of Puerto del Rosario close to the seafront, so most people arrive on foot, often partway along a walk by the sea. Drivers have car parks about 290 m and 390 m away in a straight line, and the nearest bus stop is about 340 m away. The tourist office sits about 600 m from the centre. Public toilets are about 340 m away, though the centre has its own.

Best: Tuesday to Saturday, in the morning session or the evening one.

Avoid: Sunday and Monday, when the centre is closed, and the midday gap, when the doors stay shut until late afternoon.

The visit is short and entirely indoors, so it fits around a day outside and makes a sound fallback when the weather on the coast turns.