Guayaquil Municipal Museum

Guayaquil Municipal Museum (Spanish: Museo Municipal de Guayaquil) is a museum in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It contains artifacts, objects and historical items relating to the history Guayaquil. It is considered the most important of the city and one of the best in the country. It is located in the center of the city of Guayaquil, in the same building as the Municipal Library. Admission is free, but passports are required.[1]

The museum has its origins in 1863 when an industrial museum was started by the politician and writer Pedro Carbo Noboa,[2][3] making it the oldest in Ecuador, but it wasn't officially until 1908 that the museum was founded.[4] The first director was Camilo Destruge Illingworth.[5] The museum has gone through a variety of moves and renovations.[6]

The museum's website outlines the following rooms:[7]

  • Pre-Hispanic Room: ceramic, metal, and stone objects from the Valdivia, Machalilla and Chorrera cultures
  • Colonial Room: includes "Spanish firearms, a diorama from the old church of Santo Domingo, the layouts of Guayaquil traced between 1170 and 1772 by Francisco Requena and Ramon Garcia de Leon y Pizarro, and a scale model of the city made by architect Parsival Castro according to a sketch made in 1858 by Manuel Villavicencio"[8]
  • Religious Art Room: "an exhibition of mystic scenes comprised by religious paintings from the churches of Guayaquil; icons and archetypes of sacred art, and sculptures crafted by colonial artists like Diego Robles"[9]
  • Numismatic Room: coins, particularly the barter system[10]

The museum also has a collection of tsantsas, or shrunken heads.[11]

References
  1. "Museo Municipal de Guayaquil Guayaquil and the Pacific Coast Review". Fodor's Travel. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  2. "Municipal Museum of Guayaquil (Heritage) | Welcome to Guayaquil. Official tourism website". www.guayaquilesmidestino.com. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  3. "Municipal Museum of Guayaquil - CLAVE! Turismo Ecuador". Clave Turismo Ecuador (in Spanish). 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  4. "El Museo dejó su claustro para llegar a la comunidad". El Universo (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  5. "Municipal Museum of Guayaquil (Heritage) | Welcome to Guayaquil. Official tourism website". www.guayaquilesmidestino.com. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  6. "Municipal Museum of Guayaquil (Heritage) | Welcome to Guayaquil. Official tourism website". www.guayaquilesmidestino.com. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  7. "Municipal Museum of Guayaquil (Heritage) | Welcome to Guayaquil. Official tourism website". www.guayaquilesmidestino.com. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  8. "Municipal Museum of Guayaquil (Heritage) | Welcome to Guayaquil. Official tourism website". www.guayaquilesmidestino.com. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  9. "Municipal Museum of Guayaquil (Heritage) | Welcome to Guayaquil. Official tourism website". www.guayaquilesmidestino.com. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  10. "Municipal Museum of Guayaquil - CLAVE! Turismo Ecuador". Clave Turismo Ecuador (in Spanish). 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  11. "Museo Municipal de Guayaquil Guayaquil and the Pacific Coast Review". Fodor's Travel. Retrieved 2020-03-10.


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