Jacinto Jijon y Caamaño museum
 The
Ecuadorian ground guard archaeological treasures. You can Appreciate
good part of them in your visit to the Jacinto Jijon y Caamaño museum,
in the Catholic University. Collecting to the service of history. From
beginnings of century, count Jacinto Jijon y Caamaño, heir of one of
the richest families of Quito, dedicated themselves to rescue and to
study the contained archaeological pieces in the Ecuadorian ground.
Its reserve became an historical museum and worked in its house of the
Circasiana. By their decision, in 1963 the pieces were donated to the
Catholic University. At the moment they are exhibited in the second
floor of the library of the institution. But its transfer to the
University Cultural Center is had predicted.
In one of the corners of the Circasiana, located in present avenues
Ten of August and Columbus, Jacinto Jijon y Caamaño reserved the
archaeological pieces that were finding in a work to which it was
dedicated from young person, and that left it single by its death, in
1950. This Quito aristocrat was born in 1890 and its inclination by
archaeology begins in its first encounter with Gonzalez Suarez. It,
like president of the National Academy of Historical Studies, went the
one who motivated to the recovery and study of the ancestral cultures
of the country.
Jacinto Jijon and Camaño museum
Between 1909 and 1925, Jijon y Caamaño were
dedicated to the ground prospection in the Ecuadorian provinces of
Manabí, Carchi, Imbabura, Pichincha, Cotopaxi, Tungurahua and
Chimborazo. It even made excavations in Maranga, in the North zone
of Peru. This way, their efforts allowed him to establish, by
stylistic analysis of the found pieces, the Protopanzaleo
cultures, Panzaleo, Tuncahuán and Puruha. In addition its work
helped to define the cultures imbabureñas, manteña and Inca in the
country. |
|
In agreement with the archaeologist Ernesto Salazar, the importance
of the work of Jijon and Caamaño are in which ' it was managed to
establish the first cultural sequence of pre-Columbian Ecuador. Its
interpretation was essentially difusionista, conceiving the
development of the local groups like result of swelling cultural of
central Central America and the Andes.
In the testament of Jijon y Caamaño, declared Count of the Order of
Malta, was left the this yearning of which its archaeological bottom
happened to hands of some institution that conserved it and promoted.
For that reason, their wife and son donated in 1963 the pieces to
the Catholic University of Quito. Then the Museum settled down Jacinth
Jijon y Caamaño. And to the archaeological reserve good part of the
individual of the archaeologist Max Uhle was added, who includes
cultural material of Central America and Peru. Of more recent data the
collections of art of Navarrese the Jijon families were incorporated
and.
In first personal linen cloths, sculptures, furniture, effects and
toys of centuries XVII in ahead meet. Here they excel the names of
Miguel of Santiago, Bernardine Rodriguez, Manuel de Samaniego, Manuel
Chili and Bernardo de Legarda. In second, however, one is exhibited nourished pinacoteca of
national authors of the centuries XIX and XX, between which they honor
Pinto Joaquin, Juan Manosalvas, Luis Chain, Antonio Rooms, Víctor
Mideros, Juan Pablo Sanz, Juan Leon Mera Iturralde, Roura Oxandaberro
and Oswaldo Guayasamín.
Address: Av. 12 de Octubre and Carrion Quito Pichincha
Ecuador.
Open: Monday - Friday from 08:00 to 16:00.
Services: Tours. |
