Museo Nacional del Ecuador (MUNA-Q), Quito

Museo Nacional del Ecuador (MUNA-Q), Quito

The Museo Nacional del Ecuador, also known as MUNA-Q, is the national museum of the Republic of Ecuador. It was founded in 1969 by the Central Bank of Ecuador and is now under the Technical Undersecretariat of Social Memory of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage of Ecuador since 2010. The museum is housed within the facilities of the building of the House of Ecuadorian Culture.

The collections of the National Museum are primarily composed of items acquired in 1960 from Swiss collector Max Konanz. From 1965, the museum began to build its artistic collections by recovering items from scientists and private collectors such as Luis Felipe Borja, Luis Cordero Dávila, Wilhem Baum, and Víctor Mena Caamaño, among others. The collections include 5,261 works of sculpture, painting, engravings, furniture, textiles, gold and jewelry, porcelain, crystals, and other colonial and republican decorative arts. The aim of these collections is to affirm the country's mestizo identity, a product of European-American syncretism.

MUNA-Q has the largest collection of ancestral assets in the country, including a variety of paintings by different artists and periods, as well as vessels and ceremonial figures from various periods of Ecuadorian history. It also has a collection of modern and contemporary art with around 800 works of sculpture, painting, drawing, engraving, photography, and more.

Why You Should Visit:
Combines colonial, archaeological, modern and contemporary art in perfect harmony.
You can start the tour from any point of the museum and connect with each art piece.

Tip:
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Sight Name: Museo Nacional del Ecuador (MUNA-Q)
Sight Location: Quito, Ecuador (See walking tours in Quito)
Sight Type: Museum/Gallery

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