Museo de las Salinas del Carmen, Salt museum in Antigua, Spain.
The Museo de las Salinas del Carmen is a museum in Antigua dedicated to showing how salt was traditionally produced through displays of working tools, evaporation basins, and the complete production process. The building sits directly beside active salt ponds where you can watch the work happening in real time.
This salt production facility began at the end of the 1700s as the first industrial salt operation on Fuerteventura, originally called Salinas de la Hondurilla. The site became a major source of income for the island and established how salt would be extracted here for centuries to come.
The name refers to the Carmelite order that once worked here, and you can watch local workers harvest salt using methods that have remained largely unchanged for generations. The way the salt ponds are arranged and how the work follows the rhythm of the tides shows a way of life deeply rooted in the island's past.
This place sits in an open area with salt ponds, so wear comfortable shoes and bring sun protection. The ground can be slippery and the sun reflects strongly off the water, so protect your eyes and watch your footing.
A large whale skeleton greets you at the entrance as part of the Path of the Cetaceans project, displaying marine specimens found along Fuerteventura's shores. This unexpected detail connects the salt story to the broader marine life history surrounding the island.
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