Museo de la Ciudad
Phone: 228 3882 or 3883
Open: Tues-Sun 9:30am – 5:30pm
Costs: Guides $2 in Spanish, $4 other languages

Museo Nacional de Arte Colonial
Phone: 228 2297
Address: Cuenca y Mejía
Open: Tues - Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 10am-2pm.
Costs: Entrance $5
Permanent collection of Ecuadorian sculpture and painting from the 16th - 18th centuries - religious art. Discount with ISIC card $. 2.00

Museo de Ciencias Naturales
Phone: 2 44 9824
Address: Rumipamba 341 y Los Shyris, east end of Parque Carolina
Open: Mon - Fri 8:30am-1pm, 1:30pm -4:30pm, Sat 10am-1pm; Sun 9am-14:00pm.
Costs: Entrance $.0.40 nationals, $.0.20 students, $1.00 foreigners. Permanent exhibition of plants, animals and minerals.

Museo del Convento de San Francisco
Phone: 295 2911
Address: Plaza de San Francisco y Calle Sucre 477
Open: Mon - Sat 9am-6pm; Sun 9am-1pm.
Costs: Entrance $1.20 nationals and foreign students, $2 foreigners, $.0.60 seniors, $.0.40 kids Permanent collection of religious art.

Museo Alberto Mena Caamaño
Phone/Fax: 258 4362 Ext. 135
Address: García Moreno y Espejo (Corner), near the Plaza de la Independencia
Open: Tues-Sun, 9am –5pm
Costs: Free entry to permanent exhibit, Entrance to art exhibits $.1.50 adults, $.0.75 kids.
This old municipal building includes the execution site of revolutionaries from the battle for Ecuadorian independence from the Spaniards in 1809. They have recently added colonial and modern art from various Latin American countries.

Museo Guayasamín
Phone: 244 6455, 245 2938
Address: Bosmediano 543 btw. Egas y José Carbo
Open: Mon - Fri 10am – 5pm.
Costs: Entrance $3
In addition to the artist’s collection, there is a small Pre-Colombian and Colonial collection. On site there is also a jewelry exhibit, a library of colonial and more modern books, and a gift shop.

Museo Archeológico
Phone: 299 1700
Address: 12 de Octubre y Carrión
Open : Mon - Fri 10am-4pm
Costs: Free
At the Catholic University, this museum houses a permanent exhibition of painting and archeology.

La Capilla del Hombre
Phone: 244 8492
Address: Pasaje Lorenzo Chávez y Mariano Calvache
Open: Tue - Sun 10am – 5pm.
Costs: Entrance $3

Museums in the Casa de la Cultura
Phone: 223 0505
Address: Parque El Ejido, 6 de Diciembre y Av. Patría
Open: Tues - Fri 9:30am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 2pm.
Costs: $1 nationals, $2 foreigners, $.0.50 university students, $0.25 high school students.

Museo de Arte Moderno
Paintings, contemporary art and sculptures dating from 1830.

Museo de Arte Ecuatoriano

Museo de Traje Indígena
A collection of traditional clothes and ornaments of various indigenous groups.

Museo de Instrumentos Musicales
Said to have one of the best collections of musical instruments in the world.

Museo Archeológico
Phone: 222 3258
Costs: Foreigners and adults $ 2. Kids $0.25
Open: Tue- Fri 9am.5pm, Sat-Sun 10am - 4pm
Guides available with reservation, Pre-Columbian ceramics and gold, video on Ecuadorian cultures, tours available

Museo Colonial y de Arte
Open: Tue- Fri 9am.5pm, Sat-Sun 10am - 4pm
Colonial, contemporary and modern art. Tours available.