As of the last comprehensive survey published in 2018, there were 175 museums in Ecuador.
National museum network As of 2020, Ecuador's Ministry of Culture and Heritage administers a national network of seventeen museums through four institutions designated as core museums. The core museums are listed below in bold, before their respective subordinate museums:
National Museum of Ecuador, Quito , Atuntaqui Esmeraldas Museum and Cultural Centre, Esmeraldas , Ibarra Camilo Egas Museum, Quito Mariscal Sucre Cultural Civic Centre, Museum and Library, Chillogallo, Quito Museum of Anthropology and Contemporary Art, Guayaquil , Santa Elena Nahim Isaías Museum, Guayaquil Presley Norton Museum, Guayaquil Pumapungo Museum, Cuenca Loja Museum and Cultural Centre, Loja Riobamba Museum and Cultural Centre, Riobamba , Montecristi Manta Museum and Cultural Centre, Manta , Portoviejo Bahía de Caráquez Museum and Cultural Centre, Bahía de Caráquez
The Ministry also administers the archaeological sites of Ingapirca and Hojas–Jaboncillo, both of which have site museums, through the National Institute of Cultural Heritage.
Other museums in Ecuador by location The Ministry of Culture and Heritage published a directory of 175 Ecuadorian museums in 2018. Besides those administered by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, other museums in Ecuador include those in the following list, sorted by location:
Ambato Martínez-Holguín House Museum
Cuenca
Museum of the Old Cathedral of Cuenca
Guayaquil Guayaquil Municipal Museum Luis Adolfo Noboa Naranjo Museum
Quito and Pichincha Province
Alberto Mena Caamaño Museum Benjamín Carrión Palace Carondelet Palace La Capilla del Hombre Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Casa del Alabado Museum of Pre-Columbian Art City Museum (Quito) Ciudad Mitad del Mundo Cochasquí Ecuador National Museum of Medicine Friar Museum in the Convent of San Francisco Gustavo Orcés V. Natural History Museum
Metropolitan Cultural Center Museum House of Sucre
Quito Astronomical Observatory
See also List of museums by country
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