It preserves great architectural beauty and is located in front of the Cathedral’s ruins, a few meters away from Central Park on the 5ª. Calle Oriente number 5 on the building that once sheltered the University of San Carlos of Borromeo.

The quakes affected its structures both in 1751 as in 1773, and finally, it was no longer the house for that learning institution in 1777.

La Antigua Guatemala continued to show intense activity in spite of the city’s transfer to the Ermita Valley, and its roomy areas were used as a children’s school, parochial temple and for various exhibitions.

Its architecture, rich in visible details even on the roofs, consists in a series of rooms disposed around a main court with four corridors.

The museum, which is supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Office, UNESCO, was founded in 1936, with four rooms open to the public and then three more.

It is important in its genre since it withholds a wide art collection from the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. There is an exhibition of around 133 works, among sculptures, paintings, and furniture.

In one of the hallways you can observe a curious funeral carriage from colonial times.

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La Antigua Guatemala, shelter in the past for religious congregations and of a particular devoted spirit, inherits to our present a variety of well preserved pieces of colonial imagery.

Its value and artistic quality was so great that they were admired back then, not only on the American Continent, but throughout Europe as well.

Tuesday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 to 12:00 a.m. and from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Sundays entrance is free. The rest of the days, there is a free entrance for students wearing a uniform.