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Quito - Museums

Things to Do: Museums

TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #9 of 64 attractions in Quito

This unique museum combines the science of archaeology, cultural diversity and high technology through innovate slide shows and permanent exhibits including gold artifacts, colonial paintings and sculptures.

Attraction type: History museum; Art museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #15 of 64 attractions in Quito
Attraction type: History museum; Specialty museum
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #18 of 64 attractions in Quito

Located close to the Equator Monument, this onsite museum features interactive exhibits on how the Incas determined the middle of the earth, plus interesting science experiments such as balancing an egg on a nail and the affects of the Coriolis force on earth.

Attraction type: History museum; Science museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #21 of 64 attractions in Quito

This museum houses a rich collection of colonial art.

Attraction type: Art museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #23 of 64 attractions in Quito
Attraction type: Art gallery
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #26 of 64 attractions in Quito

This museum features exhibits related to the Ecuadorian contemporary artist Oswaldo Guayasamín including posters, signed prints and colonial religious art.

Attraction type: Art museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #31 of 64 attractions in Quito

This military museum, housing murals and sculptures, is located on the site of the 1822 Battle of Pichincha, in which South American rebels were victorious over Spanish royalists.

Attraction type: Military museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #34 of 64 attractions in Quito

This impressive museum houses paintings by Victor Mideros and fine displays of French porcelain, silver dinnerware and colonial art.

Attraction type: History museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #36 of 64 attractions in Quito

Housed in a restored 17th-century colonial mansion, this museum features a permanent exhibit of Spanish colonial furniture and a vast collection of sculptures and paintings from the School of Quito.

Attraction type: Art museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #37 of 64 attractions in Quito

This small museum features Indian artifacts collected by missionaries in the Amazon and permanent exhibits that portray their society in the jungle.

Attraction type: History museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #38 of 64 attractions in Quito

This archaeology museum features exhibits of pre-Columbian ceramics and other artifacts.

Attraction type: History museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #39 of 64 attractions in Quito

This art museum features paintings and sculptures from 1830 to present day plus a large collection of pre-Columbian and colonial musical instruments.

Attraction type: Art museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #40 of 64 attractions in Quito

Museum features the personal collection of Jacinto Jijon y Caamano, a 20th-century archaeologist, plus excellent works of modern and colonial art.

Attraction type: History museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #41 of 64 attractions in Quito
Attraction type: Museum
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This museum features the finest Ecuadorian art and facilities for artistic performances, traveling exhibitions and film screenings.

Attraction type: Art museum
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Occupying the former headquarters of Venezuela’s Military School and Ministry of Defense, this museum chronicles the military’s role in the development of Ecuador.

Attraction type: Military museum
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Located inside the adjacent convent to the Church of San Francisco, this museum features an impressive collection of 17th-century paintings and other works of religious art.

Attraction type: Art museum
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This museum contains her history, paintings, stamps and personal effects of Manuela Saenz.

Attraction type: Specialty museum
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