Casa-Museo Antonio Padrón, Gáldar

The Antonio Padrón House-Museum is a museum center located in Gáldar, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. It is a public center, dependent on the Department of Culture, Historical Heritage and Museums of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria. The idea of creating a museum dedicated to Antonio Padrón was, at first, of his family. An agreement between the heirs, sponsored by his aunt Dolores Rodríguez, made it possible for the work that was in the studio when the painter died, to remain there.

On May 6, 1933, Dolores Rodríguez Ruiz presented an application to the Town Hall of Gáldar for the construction of a house. The house would have two floors and would be located in Calle Capitán Quesada. The project, of a functionalist type, was created by Miguel Martín Fernández de la Torre in 1931. The proposal was complex. Richard Van Oppel's studio participated in the design of the decoration and the furnishing of the family home.

In this building, in regionalist style, which was designed by González Padrón and built in 1947, there were more than 150 pieces belonging to the different periods of his creative activity: from academic studies, to the painting he was painting in the last days before his death, Piedad, which remained unfinished.

The museum was inaugurated on May 8, 1971, three years after the artist's death, in this small two-story pavilion. The first exhibition, of a conservationist type, was organized by Lázaro Santana and Felo Monzón. In 1981 the Cabildo de Gran Canaria acquired it and started to manage it.