Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo (MAAC)
Waterfront museum on the Malecón pairing Ecuadorian archaeology with modern and contemporary art.
The MAAC opened on 30 July 2003 at the northern end of the Malecón Simón Bolívar, the riverside promenade rebuilt under the Malecón 2000 scheme. It brought together holdings previously kept by the Banco Central del Ecuador in Guayaquil, and is now administered by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. The archaeological collection runs to some 50,000 objects, while the art collection holds more than 3,000 works of modern and contemporary Ecuadorian and Latin American art.
The permanent archaeological display, presented as ten thousand years of ancient Ecuador, follows coastal and highland cultures from Las Vegas and Valdivia through Chorrera, Bahía, Jama-Coaque, La Tolita and Manteño, using ceramics, figurines, stone and metalwork. Upper galleries are given to changing exhibitions of twentieth-century and current art, and artists including Enrique Tábara, Oswaldo Viteri and Juan Villafuerte have had solo showings here. The complex also contains a cinema, a library and open terraces used for concerts and talks.
Highlights
- Permanent display on ten thousand years of ancient Ecuador
- Around 50,000 archaeological objects from coastal and Andean cultures
- Changing exhibitions of modern and contemporary Ecuadorian art
- Cinema, library and riverside terraces on the Malecón
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