User:Bouville~enwiki/Casa del Alabado Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
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| Established | 2010 |
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| Location | Quito, Ecuador |
| Director | Christian Mesía, Ph.D. |
| Website | alabado.org |
The Casa del Alabado, Museum of Pre-Columbian Art is an Ecuadorian Museum, located in dowtown Quito. It is devoted exclusively to Ecuadorian pre-Columbian art. The Casa del Alabado is a museum a little bit different, as it deals with pre-Columbian societies but ot from the archaeological point of view, but rather from the artistic one. Its sequence is constructed around Andean cosmology, in which the visitor learns about the way people in pre-hispanic Ecuador thought and transformed their enviroment.
The museum has: 14 exhibit rooms, 1 room for temporary exhibits, 2 rooms for workshops, a museum shop, a coffe shop and 2 courtyards.
Schedule Open from Tuesday to Saturday. From 9:30am to 5:30pm. Sunday and Holidays from 10:00am to 4:00pm. Closed every Monday, New Year and Christmas.