The fantastic pre-Hispanic world is presented in an innovative way at Quito's just opened Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, at the beautifully restored Casa del Alabado, dating back to 1671. This private Museum displays 500 pieces, of the 5000 it owns, dating back to 4000 years BC, and carefully selected to reflect the magnitude of the way of thinking, the aesthetic richness and the essence of the peoples who inhabited what is now Ecuador; their culture, their cosmovision and their spirituality.
A self-guided circuit introduces visitors to objects created for an spiritual activity by artists who understood the esoteric knowledge of the forms, the images and the representations -as well as the different techniques to work on materials like stone, bone, shell, wood, vegetable fibers and metal- which represent the vital force of the energies that move among the three ancestral worlds in which the structure of time was divided: the infra-world beneath the earth or Pachamama where the energy lives, the earthly world where plants, animals and persons live, and the celestial, sacred, supra-world.
The Casa del Alabado Pre-Columbian Art Museum is being included in a new Quito Art Tour by Metropolitan Touring, to be launched in the next weeks. See more at
www.casadelalabado.com
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