El Tanque is a small municipality in the hills behind Garachico, and its ecomuseum covers what life was actually like here — in the area formerly known as El Partido de Abajo — through panels, audio-visual displays, VR and hands-on exhibits.
What an ecomuseum is
The term is worth unpacking, because it sets expectations. An ecomuseum is not a building full of objects behind glass. It is a museum about a place: its community, its work, its buildings and its way of living, usually created by the community itself rather than by a national institution.
That is exactly the register here. This is a village telling you about itself.
Why bother
Most of what a visitor sees on this coast is either scenery or restaurants. What is much harder to get at is the ordinary history — how people farmed these slopes before bananas, how water was moved around, what the villages did before anyone arrived to look at them.
That is the gap this fills, and it fills it for a place two hundred metres above the coast that almost no visitor stops in.
Practicalities
About twenty minutes inland from the apartment, and a natural stop on the way back from Garachico rather than a destination in its own right. Pair it with Casa de Platana if you want the agricultural story properly.
As with any small municipal museum, check opening times before you set off. The general rule on this coast applies here as much as it does to restaurants.