Guayaquil Municipal Museum


Guayaquil Municipal Museum is a museum in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It contains artifacts, objects and historical items relating to the history Guayaquil. It is considered the most important of the city and one of the best in the country. It is located in the center of the city of Guayaquil, in the same building as the Municipal Library.
Admission is free, but passports are required.
The museum has its origins in 1863 when an industrial museum was started by the politician and writer Pedro Carbo Noboa, making it the oldest in Ecuador, but it wasn't officially until 1908 that the museum was founded. The first director was Camilo Destruge Illingworth. The museum has gone through a variety of moves and renovations.
The museum's website outlines the following rooms:
The museum also has a collection of tsantsas, or shrunken heads.