Museums
Discover Paraguay's top museums and attractions: art, history and culture in Asunción and across the country's interior.
Museo Diocesano de Arte Jesuítico Guaraní de San Ignacio Guazú
San Ignacio
A museum housed in the old Jesuit school of San Ignacio Guazú — one of the earliest reductions in present-day Paraguay — with four rooms of Guaraní-Jesuit Baroque sacred art, and, since May 2026, the new MUVA – Museo Viedma in the same town.
Museo de Itaipú Tierra Guaraní
Hernandarias, Hernandarias
Museo de Itaipú Tierra Guaraní holds an archaeological collection plus flora, fauna and mineral samples gathered since the dam's construction began. It sits on the Itaipú Supercarretera, in Hernandarias.
Museo Tesoro Jesuítico Santiago
Santiago, Santiago
In Santiago, Misiones, this museum brings together wooden sculptures carved by Guaraní craftsmen during the Jesuit mission era. It occupies a four-room mission-era building next to the current parish church.
Museo Diocesano de Santa Rosa de Lima Misiones "Capilla Nuestra Señora de Loreto"
Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa de Lima
In Santa Rosa de Lima, Misiones, this 18th-century chapel is the only former Jesuit mission building still standing in the area. It now operates as a diocesan museum with period images, frescoes, and altarpiece fragments.
Museo Monseñor Juan Sinforiano Bogarín
Asunción
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.
Casa Bicentenario de la Música Agustín Pío Barrios
Asunción
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.
Centro de Interpretación Astronómica - Planetario Buenaventura Suárez
San Cosme y Damián
Paraguay's only public planetarium and observatory, opened in 2010 next to the San Cosme y Damián Mission in tribute to Jesuit astronomer Buenaventura Suárez.
Centro de Interpretación del Gran Chaco Americano
Filadelfia, Filadelfia
A museum opened in 2020 by SENATUR at the entrance to Filadelfia, with exhibits on the fauna, flora, history, and indigenous peoples of the Central Chaco, an 84-seat theater, and free admission.
Museo Diocesano de Arte Jesuítico de las Reducciones de Santa María de Fe
Santa María de Fe
A museum opened in 1981 in the old 'Casa de los Indios' of the Santa María de Fe mission (founded 1647), holding dozens of Guaraní-Jesuit Baroque images across six thematic rooms.
Museo del Barro
Asunción
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 Mitológico Ramón Elías
Capiatá
A museum founded in 1979 by artist Ramón Elías in Capiatá, devoted to sculptures of Guaraní mythology (Pombero, Luisón, Jasy Jatére, Ao Ao) alongside colonial sacred art and local history.
Museo de la Estación Central del Ferrocarril Carlos Antonio López
Asunción
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.