Pumapungo Museum
{{Infobox museum
| name = Pumapungo Museum
| image = TEATRO PUMAPUNGO (32097417774).jpg
| established = 1979
| location = Cuenca, Ecuador
| coordinates = {{coord|-2.905964|-78.997076|display=inline, title}}
| type = Ethnographic & Art museum
}}
The Pumapungo Museum (Spanish: Museo Pumapungo) is an ethnographic and art museum in Cuenca, Ecuador.
History
The museum was founded in 1979, the name Pumapungo means "Puma Bridge".{{Cite web|last=Herrera|first=Esteban|date=2016-08-16|title=Museo y Parque Ancestral Pumapungo|url=https://www.clave.com.ec/museo-y-parque-ancestral-pumapungo/|access-date=2021-12-14|website=Clave!|language=es}} In 2019, the museum temporarily exhibited 37 works by Salvador Dalí.{{Cite web|date=2019-07-12|title=Obras de Salvador Dalí se exponen en Cuenca|url=https://www.eluniverso.com/entretenimiento/2019/07/12/nota/7422186/obras-salvador-dali-se-exponen-cuenca|access-date=2021-12-14|website=El Universo|language=es}}
Collections
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.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2015-03-29|title=Museo Pumapungo: Un encuentro con nuestra historia|url=https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/regional-sur/2/museo-pumapungo-un-encuentro-con-nuestra-historia|access-date=2021-12-13|website=El Telégrafo|language=es}} The museum has reconstructions of Afro-Ecuadorian houses from the province of Esmeraldas. The museum also has tzantzas from the Shuar people.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81NnDwAAQBAJ&dq=museo+pumapungo+lonely+planet&pg=PT326|title=Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands|last1=Albiston|first1=Isabel|last2=Kluepfel|first2=Brian|last3=Yanagihara|first3=Wendy|last4=Bremner|first4=Jade|date=2018-08-01|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-78701-929-4|language=en}} The museum has rooms dedicated to archaeology and ethnography, including ceramics and ucuyayas, which are amulets that represent mythical characters.{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Pumapungo: un recorrido de más de 10 mil años en la historia de los habitantes del Austro|url=https://lahora.com.ec/noticia/1102146905/pumapungo-un-recorrido-de-mas-de-10-mil-anos-en-la-historia-de-los-habitantes-del-austro|access-date=2021-12-14|website=La Hora|language=es}} 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.{{Cite web|date=2017-03-07|title=5.000 casetes son parte del patrimonio cultural de Ecuador|url=https://www.eluniverso.com/vida-estilo/2017/03/07/nota/6077002/5000-casetes-son-parte-patrimonio-cultural|access-date=2021-12-14|website=El Universo|language=es}} In 2015, the exhibition "Poéticas del presente" (Poetics of the Present) was presented, in which works by 8 Ecuadorian artists were exhibited.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=La exposición Poéticas del presente se inauguró en el Museo Pumapungo de Cuenca|url=https://www.elcomercio.com/video/cuenca-poeticas-presente-museo-pumapungo.html|access-date=2021-12-13|website=El Comercio|language=es-EC}} The museum presented an exhibition about Latin American jewelry in 2018, in which 34 jewelers participated.{{Cite web|last=Alvarado|first=Ana|date=2018-06-15|title=La joyería ecuatoriana y latina, en Museo Pumapungo, de Cuenca|url=http://www.revistalideres.ec/lideres/joyeria-ecuador-exposicion-museo-cuenca.html|access-date=2021-12-13|website=Revista Líderes}} 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, {{Interlanguage link|Guangala|lt=Guangala|es|Cultura Guangala}} and {{Interlanguage link|Jama Coaque|lt=Jama Coaque|es|Cultura Jama Coaque}}; 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.{{Cite web|date=2018-01-31|title=Museo de Cuenca acoge 6.445 bienes recuperados|url=https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2018/01/31/nota/6592735/museo-cuenca-acoge-6445-bienes-recuperados|access-date=2021-12-14|website=El Universo|language=es}}
The {{ill|archaeological park of Pumapunku|es|Parque arqueológico de Pumapungo}} is part of the museum.{{cite news |title=Museo Pumapungo con la historia milenaria de Cuenca |url=https://www.sisepuedeecuador.com/museo-pumapungo-con-la-historia-milenaria-de-cuenca/ |work=Si Se Puede Ecuador |date=15 January 2020 |language=es}}