ALL 20 CUENCA MUSEUMS & PUMAPUNGO [2023]

ALL 20 CUENCA MUSEUMS & PUMAPUNGO [2023] ALL 20 MUSEUMS IN CUENCA [EXHIBITS, ADDRESSES, PUBLIC HOURS]
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
Museum / cultural center	Opening hours	Address	Theme
Casa de la Cultura, Nucleo del Azuay	M-Su 8-18	Sucre and Benigno Malo	Modern and historical art.
Catedral El Sagrario, Museo de Arte Religiosa		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.
Museo Arqueologico de las Culturas Aborigenes	8:30-18 Sa 9013	Calle Larga 5-24 & Hermano Miguel	Pre-Columbian and recent Indigenous objects.
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.
Museo Arqueologico Lopez Abad	9-17	Av. Jaime Roldon, 150m before the roundabout	2000+ archaeological items.
Museum Pumapungo & Pumapungo Ruins	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.
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.
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.
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.
Museo Manuel Agustin Landivar	8-13 5-18	Calle Larga 2-23 & Manuel Vega	Archaeoligical museum with 20,000+ objects.
Museo de Geologia Marco Tulio Erazo Vallejo
Museo de la Medicina Guillermo Aguilar Maldonado	8:30-12 13:30-17	Av. 12 de Abril	Collection of historical medical and surgery tools
Museo de los Metales	10-12 15-17	Alfonso Moreno Mora 1-51 & Av. Solano	Pre-inca metal objects.
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.
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.
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.
Museo de Ciencias Naturales Benigno Malo	13:30-18	Av. Fray Vicente Solano 2-58	Natural history museum with a considerable collection of animals.
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

Cuenca, Ecuador, Things to do

ALL 20 CUENCA MUSEUMS & PUMAPUNGO [2023]: Banco Central Museum.

ALL 20 CUENCA MUSEUMS & PUMAPUNGO [2023]: Exposition Banco Central Museum.

ALL 20 CUENCA MUSEUMS & PUMAPUNGO [2023]: Pumapungo oven.

ALL 20 CUENCA MUSEUMS & PUMAPUNGO [2023]: Pumapungo map.

Pumapungo Museum

You can't visit Cuenca without going to the Pumapungo Museum and the Banco Central Museum which also is home to the Pumapungo Ruins site, the ancient pre-Colombian city on which Cuenca was built. The museum itself showcases the archaeology of the Canaris and Incas, an ethnographic exposition of the Indian cultures of Ecuador, a monetary exposition and religious and colonial art exposition of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.