Centro de Plantas Medicinales de Tejeda

The Tejeda Medicinal Plants Center is a museum or interpretation center of ethnographic and natural theme dedicated to disseminate the medicinal use of plants in the Canary Islands. It is located in Tejeda, on the island of Gran Canaria, next to Párroco Rodríguez Vega street, and is a tourist resource linked to the cultural and natural heritage of the municipality. According to municipal sources and the FEDAC file, it is a publicly owned facility of the Tejeda Town Council, oriented to nature and ethnography. The space explains the historical relationship between people and plants through traditional remedies, popular knowledge and its contrast with the scientific view, so its main function is informative and didactic. The information available presents it as a unique center in the Canary Islands for its specialization in medicinal flora. The municipal website mentions an exhibition hall with contents on the origin and functions of plants, and elements set as the Canarian apothecary of the nineteenth century and other thematic corners, which reinforces its character as an interpretive museum rather than an artistic or archaeological museum. The sources consulted do not show a single date of foundation or inauguration that fully coincides, so it is advisable to keep this data as unverified if maximum documentary accuracy is required.