Pumapungo Museum
Established1979
LocationCuenca, Ecuador
Coordinates2°54′21″S 78°59′49″W / 2.905964°S 78.997076°W / -2.905964; -78.997076
TypeEthnographic & Art museum

The Pumapungo Museum (Spanish: Museo Pumapungo) is an ethnographic and art museum in Cuenca, Ecuador.

History

The museum was founded in 1979, the name Pumapungo means "Puma Bridge".[1] In 2019, the museum temporarily exhibited 37 works by Salvador Dalí.[2]

Collections

The museum has ethnographic collections that include traditional costumes, objects representative of the beliefs and rites of the peoples of Ecuador. The museum has a room about baroque art dating from the 18th century.[3] The museum has reconstructions of Afro-Ecuadorian houses from the province of Esmeraldas. The museum also has tzantzas from the Shuar people.[4] The museum has rooms dedicated to archaeology and ethnography, including ceramics and ucuyayas, which are amulets that represent mythical characters.[5] The museum contains a collection of 5000 cassettes, these contain films of Ecuadorian cinema, also includes musical recordings, the collection is composed of 600 betamax, 1500 VHS and 3080 Cassette tapes.[6] In 2015, the exhibition "Poéticas del presente" (Poetics of the Present) was presented, in which works by 8 Ecuadorian artists were exhibited.[7] The museum presented an exhibition about Latin American jewelry in 2018, in which 34 jewelers participated.[8] In January 2018, the museum housed a collection of 6445 recovered objects including pots, ocarinas and statuettes, these collections had been recovered since 2008, some of the recovered objects came from different cultures such as Puruhá, Guangala and Jama Coaque; also the objects came from private collections in Ecuador and other countries such as Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Spain, United States, Italy, Denmark and Egypt.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Herrera, Esteban (2016-08-16). "Museo y Parque Ancestral Pumapungo". Clave! (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  2. ↑ "Obras de Salvador Dalí se exponen en Cuenca". El Universo (in Spanish). 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  3. ↑ "Museo Pumapungo: Un encuentro con nuestra historia". El Telégrafo (in Spanish). 2015-03-29. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  4. ↑ Albiston, Isabel; Kluepfel, Brian; Yanagihara, Wendy; Bremner, Jade (2018-08-01). Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands. Lonely Planet. ISBN 978-1-78701-929-4.
  5. ↑ "Pumapungo: un recorrido de más de 10 mil años en la historia de los habitantes del Austro". La Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  6. ↑ "5.000 casetes son parte del patrimonio cultural de Ecuador". El Universo (in Spanish). 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  7. ↑ "La exposición Poéticas del presente se inauguró en el Museo Pumapungo de Cuenca". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  8. ↑ Alvarado, Ana (2018-06-15). "La joyería ecuatoriana y latina, en Museo Pumapungo, de Cuenca". Revista Líderes. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  9. ↑ "Museo de Cuenca acoge 6.445 bienes recuperados". El Universo (in Spanish). 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
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