La Casa del Carnaval in Santa Cruz is aimed at four target groups of people: tourists, the Carnival community, specialists and researchers and the general public.

Inside, you will find a permanent exhibition, designed as an attractive, sensorial, comfortable and entertaining space with sufficiently flexible amenities to be able to host collections and contents of different kinds, documentary collections and multimedia resources.

Hence, the exhibition space will update each year, to include the costume of the reigning Carnival Queen and the costumes used by the different artistic groups (adult and children’s Murgas, musical groups, Comparsas, etc.) this year.

The costume of the reigning Carnival Queen is the main piece that is in the same spot that have her name, sorrounded by their runner up, that acts as an introduction to the permanent exhibition, where there are eight separate modules with multi-language screens that explain different aspects of the Carnival celebrations.

At the beginning, visitors will find different Carnival posters, and a video wall with videos related to this festival in the last spot. This videowall introduce a didactic and interactive space where visitors and schoolchildren can learn first-hand about the Carnival of Santa Cruz.

Numerous contents have also been added, such as the new audio guide system, which allows access to the site tour through mobile devices with multimedia content in English and Spanish. During the visit, digital resources will be displayed to guarantee a thorough Carnival immersion.

The extensive exhibition that Casa del Carnaval offers is devoted to those people who made our Carnival possible: the queens, designers, pioneers of different groups and, of course, Carnival characters of Santa Cruz.

One of our most important content, specially for the high artistic value, is the permanent Carnival post exhibition that goes through different year since the 60s until nowadays posters. In the same way, you can admire our Carnival Queens (Adult Queen, Children Queen and Senior Queen), in the museum different romos, as well as our awards Carnival groups.

The Casa del Carnaval also has a multi-purpose room, called Sala Suspi, in honour of a well-known murguero, where temporary exhibitions, conferences, book presentations, talks and seminars will be held.