Museums
Discover Paraguay's top museums and attractions: art, history and culture in Asunción and across the country's interior.
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Cultural venues
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.
Centro de Interpretación Astronómica - Planetario Buenaventura Suárez
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
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 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 Diocesano de Arte Jesuítico Guaraní de San Ignacio Guazú
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
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 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 Mitológico Ramón Elías
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 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 Itaipú Tierra Guaraní
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.