Yes, I visited the daily required church and actually sat for a portion of the mass at Santo Dominico. I walked the start if the La Ronda a seedy nightlife portion of the city. I passed by the place Anthony Bourdain ate fetus and bull penis---I decide to pass on that meal and kept walking to the Museum de la Ciudad which was a former hospital. I did manage to get a photo of their drug pharmacy.
Now, the great part---The Casa del Alabado.
With a collection of pieces that date back to 4,000 years ago, this private museum of Pre-Colombian art is organized in a non-traditional manner. Instead of following time periods, visitors explore the former colonial mansion by themes such as ancestors and shamans; objects are also grouped by material, as varied as gold, stone, shell, and ceramics.
The fantastic pre-Hispanic world is presented in an innovative way at Quito's just opened Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, at the beautifully restored Casa del Alabado, dating back to 1671. This private Museum displays 500 pieces, of the 5000 it owns, dating back to 4000 years BC, and carefully selected to reflect the magnitude of the way of thinking, the aesthetic richness and the essence of the peoples who inhabited what is now Ecuador; their culture, their cosmovision and their spirituality.
A self-guided circuit introduces visitors to objects created for an spiritual activity by artists who understood the esoteric knowledge of the forms, the images and the representations -as well as the different techniques to work on materials like stone, bone, shell, wood, vegetable fibers and metal- which represent the vital force of the energies that move among the three ancestral worlds in which the structure of time was divided: the infra-world beneath the earth or Pachamama where the energy lives, the earthly world where plants, animals and persons live, and the celestial, sacred, supra-world.
Now, the great part---The Casa del Alabado.
With a collection of pieces that date back to 4,000 years ago, this private museum of Pre-Colombian art is organized in a non-traditional manner. Instead of following time periods, visitors explore the former colonial mansion by themes such as ancestors and shamans; objects are also grouped by material, as varied as gold, stone, shell, and ceramics.
The fantastic pre-Hispanic world is presented in an innovative way at Quito's just opened Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, at the beautifully restored Casa del Alabado, dating back to 1671. This private Museum displays 500 pieces, of the 5000 it owns, dating back to 4000 years BC, and carefully selected to reflect the magnitude of the way of thinking, the aesthetic richness and the essence of the peoples who inhabited what is now Ecuador; their culture, their cosmovision and their spirituality.
A self-guided circuit introduces visitors to objects created for an spiritual activity by artists who understood the esoteric knowledge of the forms, the images and the representations -as well as the different techniques to work on materials like stone, bone, shell, wood, vegetable fibers and metal- which represent the vital force of the energies that move among the three ancestral worlds in which the structure of time was divided: the infra-world beneath the earth or Pachamama where the energy lives, the earthly world where plants, animals and persons live, and the celestial, sacred, supra-world.
Where you begin your tour in the underwold.
The multiple layers representing the dimensions of spiritual life.
The swirls showing the infinite continuation of life into death and into life again.
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