Museo Nacional del Ecuador (Casa de la Cultura)

The National Museum of Ecuador, part of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana complex beside Parque El Ejido, holds the country's premier collection of pre-Columbian and colonial art. Its galleries display gold work, ceramics and stone sculpture from ancient Andean and coastal cultures, alongside religious paintings of the Quito School and republican-era art. The rounded glass Casa de la Cultura building is itself a Quito landmark. The museum offers a comprehensive overview of Ecuadorian artistic heritage from earliest times to the present.