Pumapungo Museum

Pumapungo Museum
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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 [es] and Jama Coaque [es]; 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]

The archaeological park of Pumapunku [es] is part of the museum.[10]

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.
  10. ^ "Museo Pumapungo con la historia milenaria de Cuenca". Si Se Puede Ecuador (in Spanish). 15 January 2020.