Mara Mao Museum

Leaving the locality of Teguise, by the LZ-30, we discovered a place, by chance, between Jose Betancourt and Perejil streets. Despite that I hadn’t heard of him, when you walk along his street you discover something that draws your attention so you have to stop to see what it is. There is a house with garden and many different shapes, cactuses, palm trees. What is it? When we approached the house, we discovered a collection of everything you can imagine: figures made of white, red, black plaster…busts of mannequins, stuffed animals, toys, inflatable dolls, wow!

It is the life of a person that has collected everything that others throw away, while he dedicates himself to sculpture and painting. By asking around, I found out that his name is Manuel Perdomo Ramírez, a local artist that exhibits his work in many places, like the Rancho Texas in the island.

Leaving the town of Teguise, in Lanzarote, you will find a place that is completely different to everything that I have seen up to know. It is a house almost at the end of the town, in the road that takes you to the monument of El Campesino, where there is a strange museum. I wasn’t able to discover what it is about, but it was full of unusual things, such as doll heads, stone figures, computers, all kinds of toys, old and semi-new, bicycles, all kinds of dolls.

Anyway, it is something that you must see to sort of get an idea of what it is. I was impressed by it, and my family was surprised to see a museum like this, this is why I want to write down that I saw it and that if you are around, you should stop to see it.