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Spain, decolonisation and the Canary Islands: ‘Identifying how racism has infiltrated’

Tenerife Weekly
12 Oct 2025
Canary Islands
Spain
RM* 20 Oct 2025

The decolonisation of museums worldwide is an unstoppable process. Spain aimed to join the wave of museological decolonisation. In the case of the Canary Islands, this practice presents a series of peculiarities related to their unique historical process.

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