ALL 20
CUENCA MUSEUMS, PUMAPUNGO & RUINS [2023]
ALL 20 MUSEUMS IN CUENCA [EXHIBITS, ADDRESSES,
PUBLIC HOURS]
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Museums in Cuenca with the opening hours, the addresses and the themes. You will find
photographs of each one of them to give you an impression of each Museum
in Cuenca |
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Museum
/ cultural center |
Opening hours |
Address |
Theme |
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Casa de la Cultura, Nucleo del Azuay |
M-Su 8-18 |
Sucre and Benigno Malo |
Modern and historical art. |
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Catedral El Sagrario, Museo de Arte Religiosa |
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Mariscal Sucre y Luis Cordero |
After the construction of the Inmaculate Conception
Cathedral the El Sagrado Cathedral was no longer used and is now a museum for
religious art. |
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Museo Arqueologico de las Culturas Aborigenes |
8:30-18 Sa 9013 |
Calle Larga 5-24 & Hermano Miguel |
Pre-Columbian and recent Indigenous objects. |
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Museo Arqueologico Universitario |
8:30-12 14:30-18 |
Honorato Loyola 2-42 y Agustin Cueva |
Some 5000 pre-Colombian items in 4 expositions
representing important archaeological eras. |
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Museo Arqueologico Lopez Abad |
9-17 |
Av. Jaime Roldon, 150m before the
roundabout |
2000+ archaeological items. |
Museum Pumapungo
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Pumapungo Ruins
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8-18 Sa 8-13 |
Calle Larga & Av. Huayna Capac |
Exposition: archaeology of the Canaris and Incas,
ethnographic exposition of the indian cultures of Ecuador, monetary exposition
and religious and colonial art exposition of the eighteenth and nineteenth
century. The Pumapungo Museum also includes the Pumapungo Ruins site. |
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Museo de la Identidad Canari |
9-18 Sa 9-13:30 |
Presidente Cordova 6-26 & Borrero |
500 pre-Columbian archaeological items of the Canari, Inca
and other cultures. |
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Museo del Centro Interamericano de Artes Populares CIDAP |
9:30-3 14-18 |
Hermano Miguel 3-23 & La
Escalinata |
More than 7000 modern art items from Latin America. |
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Museo de Esqueletologia, Doctor Gabriel Moscoso |
10-13 16-19 Sa 10-14 |
Bolivar 6-57 & Borrero |
Collection of 150+ skeletons from the 19th century. |
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Museo Manuel Agustin Landivar |
8-13 5-18 |
Calle Larga 2-23 & Manuel Vega |
Archaeoligical museum with 20,000+ objects. |
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Museo de Geologia Marco Tulio Erazo Vallejo |
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Museo de la Medicina Guillermo Aguilar Maldonado |
8:30-12 13:30-17 |
Av. 12 de Abril |
Collection of historical medical and surgery tools |
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Museo de los Metales |
10-12 15-17 |
Alfonso Moreno Mora 1-51 & Av.
Solano |
Pre-inca metal objects. |
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Museo del Monasterio de las Conceptas |
9-13 15-18, Sa 10-13 |
Hermano Miguel 6-33, & Juan
Jaramillo |
Religious art in the former infirmary of the monastery dedicated to the Virgin Maria. |
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Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno Luis Crespo Ordonez |
8:30- 3 3-18:30 Sa 10-13 |
Sucre 1527 & Coronel Talbot |
Museum of Modern Art in the restored historical building
Casa Temperancia, a recovery center for alcoholics before becoming a prison.
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Museo de Remigio Crespo Toral |
8:30 - 13 15-18:30 |
707 Calle Larga and Borrero |
8000 archaeological, historical and art objects, including
Canar and Chordeleg gold items as well as pre-Colombian ceramics. Furthermore a
collection of colonial paintings and sculptures and religious art. |
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Museo de Ciencias Naturales Benigno Malo |
13:30-18 |
Av. Fray Vicente Solano 2-58 |
Natural history museum with a considerable collection of
animals. |
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Museo del Sombrero de Paja Toquilla |
Shopping hours |
Calle Larga 10-41 |
The Rafael Paredes Panama Hat shop has historical Panama
hat production items as well as a production workshop where you can see panama
hats being produced by the workers. Probably one of your best opportunities to
buy a Panama hat from an enormous collection of traditional and creative modern
models for men, women and children |
