The Canary Island Museum Scientific Society has awarded FCC Construcción the contract for the first phase of the expansion and refurbishment of the Canary Island Museum, located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The project has got a budget of 8.7 million euro and will take 22 months to complete, according to the design by architects Fuensanta Nieto de la Cierva and Enrique Sobejano García.

The museum has got a multitude of items from the pre-Hispanic cultures that inhabited Gran Canaria, and it focuses on preserving, researching and exhibiting its archaeological collections and document collections. It has got a library, a newspaper archive and a document archive, all specialising in Canary Island subjects, and it provides services for researchers, students and anyone interested in consulting its array of materials.

Over its long career, the Canary Island Museum Scientific Society, established on the 2nd September 1879, has won the unanimous recognition and respect of the Canary people, scientists from over the world and the numerous visitors who cross its threshold daily to visit its halls and conduct research.