The creation of the Cultural Classroom of Traditional and Heritage Carpentry at the University of La Laguna was approved by the Governing Council of this University on December 19, 2019. It is made up of a group of academics and professionals, specialists in heritage carpentry, who aim to give visibility to everything related to the carpentry work carried out in the Canary Islands in past centuries and its connection with the movements back and forth between mainland Spain, the Canary Islands, and the former colonies of the Crown of Castile, in America and Asia. This exchange of knowledge and techniques was decisive in the development of new variants in carpentry models and solutions, which, over the centuries, have acquired their own distinctive seal.

The aim is therefore to create a "global" cultural space limited to the analysis, research and dissemination of this knowledge, placing special emphasis on the relevant contribution that the islands had in the diffusion and expansion of the carpentry techniques that arrived from the continent in the 15th century and were used in the colonization of the new territories incorporated into the Crown of Castile.