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| '''Alberto Mena Caamaño Museum''' (Museo Alberto Mena Caamaño)<br>García Moreno 887 and Espejo<br>Quito 170401<br>Pasaje Espejo No.1147<br>Quito<br>
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| Telephone: 593 2 395 2300<br>Email: areadeguiasmuseo@gmail.com<br>
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| [https://www.facebook.com/museodeceraAMC/ Facebook]
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| :The exhibits at the Alberto Mena Caamaño Museum afford visitors a wonderful opportunity to gain insight into the art and culture of the people of Quito. Much of the art donated by Alberto Mena Caamaño represents colonial art from the 16th and 17th centuries, featuring renowned artists such as Miguel de Santiago and Joaquín Pinto. The museum also features a number of contemporary artworks, some of which have won the prestigious Mariano Aguilera Award for sculpture and painting. The museum features both permanent and temporary exhibitions. The permanent exhibition, “From Quito to Ecuador”, portrays the history of Quito from 1700 through to 1830 when the new Republic of Ecuador gained independence from Gran Colombia. It also covers the life and achievements of Pedro Vicente Maldonado (1704-1748), the Ecuadorian scientist who collaborated with the French Geodesic Mission in their quest to measure the roundness of the Earth, as well as the length of a degree of longitude at the Equator – a huge undertaking considering they were using 18th century technology.
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| '''Guayaquil Municipal Museum''' (Museo Municipal)<br>Calle Sucre entre calle Chile y calle, Pedro Carbo<br>Telephone: 593 4 259 4800/99 703 0332<br>
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| Website: [https://www.guayaquilesmidestino.com/en/content/municipal-museum-guayaquil-heritage Municipal Museum of Guayaquil (Heritage)]<br>
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| Website #2: [https://www.ecuador.com/attractions/museums/municipal-museum-guayaquil/ Municipal Museum of Guayaquil, Museums, Culture]<br>
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| Website #3: [https://www.planetandes.com/ecuador/pacific-coast/guayas/guayaquil/guayaquil-municipal-museum/ Guayaquil Municipal Museum]<br>
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| Website #4: [https://www.facebook.com/MUMG-Museo-Municipal-de-Guayaquil-68122309693/ MUMG - Museo Municipal de Guayaquil]
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| :The Municipal Museum contains four halls that all feature a specific aspect of the city’s history. The first hall displays archaeological pieces that have been collected in and around Guayaquil. It is this sort of archaeological evidence that gives researchers necessary and vital information about the original inhabitants that occupied this location. Not only does it tell them about how early inhabitants lived and what they ate, but it has also provided insight into the origin of the city’s name.
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| '''Museum of the City''' (Museo de la Ciudad)<br>García Moreno S1-47 y Rocafuerte / Bulevar 24 de Mayo y García Moreno<br>Quito<br>
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| Telephone: 593 2 228 3882 ext. 100-102<br>Email: [mailto:comunicacionmdc@fmcquito.gob.ec comunicacionmdc@fmcquito.gob.ec]<br>
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| Email #2: [mailto:cristina.medrano@fmcquito.gob.ec cristina.medrano@fmcquito.gob.ec]<br>
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| Website: [http://www.museociudadquito.gob.ec/ The City Museum]<br>
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| Website #2: [https://www.viator.com/Quito-attractions/City-Museum-of-Quito-Museo-de-la-Ciudad/d735-a24080 City Museum of Quito (Museo de la Ciudad) Tours]<br>
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| Website #3: [https://www.ecuador.com/attractions/museums/museo-de-la-ciudad/ Museo de la Ciudad, Museums, Culture]<br>
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| Website #4: [https://quitotravel.ec/en/museo-de-la-ciudad/ Museum of the City]
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| :The City Museum is a non-formal education space that promotes intercultural and intergenerational dialogue, reflection and debate, through the different themes developed in its exhibitions and permanent artistic and cultural programming. In addition, it contributes to the development of the communities, promotes the recognition and revaluation of the living cultural heritage of the Metropolitan District of Quito.
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| '''National Museum of Ecuador''' (Museo Nacional)<br>Avenida Patria (between Avenida 6 de Diciembre and Avenida 12 de Octubre)<br>Quito<br> | | '''National Museum of Ecuador''' (Museo Nacional)<br>Avenida Patria (between Avenida 6 de Diciembre and Avenida 12 de Octubre)<br>Quito<br> |
| Telephone: 593 2 381 4550 Ext. 6000<br>Email: [mailto:contacto.muna@culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec contacto.muna@culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec]<br> | | Telephone: 593 2 381 4550 Ext. 6000<br>Email: [mailto:contacto.muna@culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec contacto.muna@culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec]<br> |
| Website: [http://muna.culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec/ MuNa]<br> | | Website: [http://muna.culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec/ MuNa]<br> |
| Website #2: [https://www.lonelyplanet.com/ecuador/quito/attractions/museo-nacional/a/poi-sig/1297824/363359 Museo Nacional] | | Website #2: [https://www.lonelyplanet.com/ecuador/quito/attractions/museo-nacional/a/poi-sig/1297824/363359 Museo Nacional] |
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| :Located in the circular, glass-plated, landmark building of the Casa de la Cultura is one of the country’s largest collections of Ecuadorian art, with magnificent works of pre-Hispanic and colonial religious art. The museum collection includes more than 1000 ceramic pieces dating from 12,000 BC to AD 1534, with highlights being ‘whistle bottles’ from the Chorrera culture, figures showing skull deformation practiced by the Machalilla culture, wild serpent bowls from the Jama-Coaque and ceramic representations of tzantzas (shrunken heads). The ‘coin axes’ from the Milagro-Quevedo culture and the famous ceremonial stone chairs of the Manteños culture are also interesting. Displays in the Sala de Oro (Gold Room) include a magnificent radiating golden sun mask. Archaeological exhibits include arrowheads from Ecuador’s first nomadic hunter-gatherers, the Valdivia culture (Ecuador’s first settled agriculturalists) and the Inca. | | :Located in the circular, glass-plated, landmark building of the Casa de la Cultura is one of the country’s largest collections of Ecuadorian art, with magnificent works of pre-Hispanic and colonial religious art. The museum collection includes more than 1000 ceramic pieces dating from 12,000 BC to AD 1534, with highlights being ‘whistle bottles’ from the Chorrera culture, figures showing skull deformation practiced by the Machalilla culture, wild serpent bowls from the Jama-Coaque and ceramic representations of tzantzas (shrunken heads). The ‘coin axes’ from the Milagro-Quevedo culture and the famous ceremonial stone chairs of the Manteños culture are also interesting. Displays in the Sala de Oro (Gold Room) include a magnificent radiating golden sun mask. Archaeological exhibits include arrowheads from Ecuador’s first nomadic hunter-gatherers, the Valdivia culture (Ecuador’s first settled agriculturalists) and the Inca. |
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