Museums
Discover Paraguay's top museums and attractions: art, history and culture in Asunción and across the country's interior.
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 Nacional de Bellas Artes
Asunción
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 Casa de la Independencia
Asunción
1772 colonial house where Paraguayan patriots planned the 1811 independence; a museum since 1965 with period furniture, documents, and objects.
Museo de las Memorias: Dictadura y Derechos Humanos
Asunción
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.
Museo Etnográfico Andrés Barbero
Asunción
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
Asunción
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 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.
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 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 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.
Centro de Interpretación del Gran Chaco Americano
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.
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.