Museums
Discover Paraguay's top museums and attractions: art, history and culture in Asunción and across the country's interior.
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 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 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 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 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.