Una persona con cabello corto y castaño y gafas está sentada en un escritorio leyendo un periódico. En el escritorio hay varios útiles de oficina, libros, un teclado de computadora y un modelo de calavera. El fondo incluye una gran pintura en la pared.
Una persona con cabello corto y castaño y gafas está sentada en un escritorio leyendo un periódico. En el escritorio hay varios útiles de oficina, libros, un teclado de computadora y un modelo de calavera. El fondo incluye una gran pintura en la pared.
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Carmen Gloria Rodríguez Santana

Carmen Gloria Rodríguez Santana (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1963) holds a degree in Geography and History (1986) and a PhD in Geography and History (1994) from the University of La Laguna. She received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award from the Humanities Section of the University of La Laguna and the Viera y Clavijo Research Award from the Cabildo of Gran Canaria (1994). Receiving this prize was, in fact, her first contact with Casa de Colón.

\n\nShe held a Research Staff Training Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (1986–1990) at the University of La Laguna, and a grant from the Government of the Canary Islands at the CNRS Archaeological Research Centre in France (1991–1993). She has collaborated on research projects developed with state-run museums and exhibitions.

\n\nHer involvement in the Cueva Pintada Archaeological Park began as a researcher in 1989 and, from 1995, as a member of the team responsible for the Museological Project. Since 2005 she has been a museum curator with the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, attached to the Cueva Pintada Museum and Archaeological Park. Since 2014 she has held the position of Director-Curator of this centre, coordinating, alongside a broad multidisciplinary team linked to the museum and to other institutions, the research, conservation and outreach work of this heritage site.

\n\nIn recent years her main concern has been to balance the functions a museum centre must fulfil (conservation, research, education and outreach) while embracing the values closely tied to a venue of this nature, in particular the integration of social values and the Sustainable Development Goals, which have for some years been central to the centre’s agenda.

\n\nThe exhibition ‘The long journey. From Altamira to Cueva Pintada’; the Archaeology Campus; the development of the Integrated System for Archaeological and Heritage Documentation; the inclusion of artistic creation across various disciplines so that the collection can inspire diverse readings from the present; and programmes through which the museum becomes a stage for inclusive culture (such as Cueva Pintada TEAcoge, designed for people on the autism spectrum) are some of the initiatives driven from the centre in Gáldar. Some of these ideas will also be promoted at the Casa de Colón museum, alongside those that arise from joint work with the new team she joins.

\n\nBoth her historical research and her work on the dissemination of cultural heritage have been published, in monographs and in articles for specialist and general-interest journals. She has also taken part in many congresses, seminars and conferences, both nationally and internationally. She also taught on the Inter-University Master’s in Archaeology (University of La Laguna and University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), where she delivered the modules linked to museology.

\n\nSince December 2023 she is the new Director of the Casa de Colón Museum in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.\n