Institutum Canarium is an academic association founded in 1969 concerned with the cultural history of the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...

 and the neighbouring cultures of the Mediterranean region.

The headquarters are in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

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It publishes two periodicals:

• Almogaren
• IC-Nachrichten

It is a member of the International Federation of Rock Art Organizations.

Medal Dominik Wölfel

The organisation gives out the Dominik-Wölfel-Medaille, an award named after Dominik Josef Wölfel (1888–1963), explorer of the cultures of North Africa and the Canary Islands.

Prize winners include:

• 2001 José Manuel Alamo González
• 2003 Fred Olsen