Casa del Alabado Museum of Pre-Columbian Art

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Casa del Alabado
Pre-Columbian Art Museum

Established	April 11, 2010
Location	Cuenca N1-41 and Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador
Coordinates	0°13′17″S 78°30′57″W / 0.221258°S 78.515822°W / -0.221258; -78.515822
Collections	precolumbian art objects
Website	alabado.org

Casa del Alabado is a Pre-Columbian art museum in Quito, Ecuador. The museum is located in a colonial house built in the 17th century during the Spanish Colony. It houses a collection of over 5,000 archaeological pieces, 500 of which are on permanent display.

Casa del Alabado is unique in the sense that its display is organized thematically, not chronologically. The aim of the museum is to treat objects as works of art rather than archaeological remnants. The display is distributed along eight rooms with eight different themes, which serve as representations of cultural aspects of ancient Ecuadorian cultures: their cosmology, their relationship with their ancestors, their religious ideas and rituals, and their relationship with their environment.

Casa del Alabado has:

Eight exhibit rooms, one room for temporary exhibits, two rooms for workshops, a museum shop and two courtyards.

• Official Website