Alberto Mena Caamaño museum
 The
3 of April of 1957, Mr. Alberto Mena Caamaño donated to the
Municipality of Quito his valuable collection of objects of art and
documents hoarded throughout his life. Two years later, the 9 of
November of 1959, the Museum was inaugurated that takes its name.
The new proposal of permanent exhibition for the
Alberto Mena Caamaño museum will denominate "Of Quito Ecuador" and
will be a trip from 1700 to 1830, from Pedro Vicente Maldonado to the
sprouting of the new independent republic that decided on the name of
Ecuador.
The collections of the museum will be handled in
temporary thematic exhibitions distributed in four rooms and one
conceptual room, that will allow the visitor to understand, to
interpret, to reflect and to interact with the exposed thing, and,
through the route by the Metropolitan Cultural Center, to know the
points historical that recreate the facts happened in the building.
The Alberto Mena Caamaño museum Includes:
Permanent sample of colonial and republican art.
Permanent sample of modern Ecuadorian art, whose
base is works that have deserved the annual prize of painting and
sculpture "Mariano Aguilera".
Historical permanent sample "From Quito to
Ecuador", that takes to the visitor by a route from Pedro Vicente
Maldonado to the first Shout of Independence and the martyrdom of the
2 of August of 1810, and culminates in the wax museum.
Scene of the 2 of August of 1810, in wax figures,
inspired by a picture of Cesar Villacres and elaborated by the French
Alexander Barbieri. The statues are located in the same place in where
procers was assassinated by the military Limean.
Address: Pasaje Espejo No.1147 Quito
Pichincha Ecuador
Open: Monday - Friday, from 08:00 to 16:45.
Saturday: from 09:00 to 14:00.
Services: Tours. |
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