La Recova is an important culture center.
Arts exhibitions take place here.
The City School of Graphic Arts has its headquarters in La Recova. Collections which were dispersed until now are being gathered here, like those of the former Archaeological Museum of Tenerife or the Natural History Museum. Closed on Mondays. The Library, which is now being extended, has an important department of Canarian literature and Islands's archives. It finds its complement in the Provincial Historic Archives Library, also in Santa Cruz.