| Pumapungo Museum | |
| Established: | 1979 |
| Location: | Cuenca, Ecuador |
| Coordinates: | -2.906°N -78.9971°W |
| Type: | Ethnographic & Art museum |
The Pumapungo Museum (Spanish: Museo Pumapungo) is an ethnographic and art museum in Cuenca, Ecuador.
The museum was founded in 1979, the name Pumapungo means "Puma Bridge".[1] In 2019, the museum temporarily exhibited 37 works by Salvador Dalí.[2]
The museum has ethnographic collections that include traditional costumes, objects representative of the beliefs and rites of the peoples of Ecuador. The museum has a room about baroque art dating from the 18th century.[3] The museum has reconstructions of Afro-Ecuadorian houses from the province of Esmeraldas. The museum also has tzantzas from the Shuar people.[4] The museum has rooms dedicated to archaeology and ethnography, including ceramics and ucuyayas, which are amulets that represent mythical characters.[5] The museum contains a collection of 5000 cassettes, these contain films of Ecuadorian cinema, also includes musical recordings, the collection is composed of 600 betamax, 1500 VHS and 3080 Cassette tapes.[6] In 2015, the exhibition "Poéticas del presente" (Poetics of the Present) was presented, in which works by 8 Ecuadorian artists were exhibited.[7] The museum presented an exhibition about Latin American jewelry in 2018, in which 34 jewelers participated.[8] In January 2018, the museum housed a collection of 6445 recovered objects including pots, ocarinas and statuettes, these collections had been recovered since 2008, some of the recovered objects came from different cultures such as Puruhá, and ; also the objects came from private collections in Ecuador and other countries such as Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Spain, United States, Italy, Denmark and Egypt.[9]