WAX MUSEUM

HISTORY

The museum is part of the Metropolitan Cultural Center through waxworks important episodes of the Quito recreate history. This recreates the events of August 2, 1810. According to the story a group of patriots wanted to free their comrades arrested in the headquarters of the Royal Court since the failed uprising of August 1809

On August 2, 1810 was the date set by the rebels to strike. A subdued the guards, other prisoners released, but the plan failed and the repression was brutal soldiery, were three hundred dead in this heroic and tragic day, the royalist soldiers attacked anyone who crossed them.

LOCATION AND CARE REMOVE WAX MUSEUM

Alberto Mena Caamaño Museum is housed in a building of great historical trajectory, with the Palace of Government. The museum displays permanent the colonial and republican art. The interior keeps a valuable collection of objects and historical documents of the Royal Audience of Quito. In the museum of French art objects and the artist Alexander Barbieri, who based his work on the painter of Riobamba, César Villacrés are also displayed.

ATTENTION SCHEDULE

Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 09h00 to 17h30 Sunday 10h00 to 16h30
Phone: 258 4363
Email:
info@centrocultural-quito.com
Address: Garcia Moreno and Espejo 887
Cost: Adults: 1.50 - Seniors and children 0.50 - 0.75 Students

ATTRACTIONS

 It is known as the " Wax Museum " , because it represents the scene of the massacre of patriots August 2, 1810 in wax. The figures were made ​​in Paris by Alexander Barbieri , who modeled the paintings of César Villacrés in 1909 , painting lies in Eloy Alfaro Military College .

• COLONIAL ART: Permanent exhibition of colonial and republican art.

• MODERN ART: Permanent exhibition of modern art Ecuadorian based on the works that have won the annual prize of painting and sculpture "Mariano Aguilera " .

• SAMPLES: The historical permanent exhibition " of Quito Ecuador " that takes visitors along a route from Pedro Vicente Maldonado at the first cry of independence, the martyrdom of 2 August 1810 and culminated in the wax museum. 

• WAX STATUES: The scene of the August 2, 1810 , in wax figures . The statues are located in the same place where the heroes were killed by the Lima military.