Museums in Asunción
Explore Paraguay's best museums and top attractions: art, history and culture in Asunción and beyond. Find opening hours, locations and how to get there.
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Cultural venues Asunción
Casa Bicentenario de la Música Agustín Pío Barrios
A house museum dedicated to guitarist and composer Agustín Pío Barrios "Mangoré," with original instruments, scores and wax-cylinder recordings; reopened on May 5, 2026 with new museography curated by Carlos Spatuzza and Lea Schvartzman.
Museo Casa de la Independencia
1772 colonial house where Paraguayan patriots planned the 1811 independence; a museum since 1965 with period furniture, documents, and objects.
Museo Etnográfico Andrés Barbero
Founded in 1929 by Dr. Andrés Barbero; houses the country's most important archaeological and ethnographic collections on the indigenous peoples of Paraguay.
Museo Militar del Ministerio de Defensa Nacional
The Ministry of National Defense's museum, created in 1939, with collections from the War of the Triple Alliance and the Chaco War, and rooms honoring Marshals López and Estigarribia.
Museo Monseñor Juan Sinforiano Bogarín
A museum of sacred art and history next to the Cathedral, housed in a mansion that was once Fulgencio Yegros's residence and a public jail under Francia; it displays the collection gathered by Monsignor Bogarín: Jesuit and Franciscan religious imagery, colonial furniture and historical objects.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Founded in 1909 based on the collection of Juan Silvano Godoy; brings together more than 650 works of Paraguayan and European art, including the Guarani baroque of the Jesuit missions.
Museo de la Estación Central del Ferrocarril Carlos Antonio López
Inaugural station of the first railway in South America (1861); today a themed museum with the first locomotive to arrive in the country, railcars, and objects from the railway era.
Museo del Barro
Visual arts center founded in 1979 by Olga Blinder and Carlos Colombino, with collections of pre-Columbian indigenous ceramics, folk art, and Paraguayan contemporary art.
Museo de las Memorias: Dictadura y Derechos Humanos
Former headquarters of the feared "Técnica" (DNAT), a detention and torture center during the Stroessner dictatorship; today a museum and memory site on human rights.