Museo de las Conceptas
Museo de las Conceptas, a museum in a former convent founded in 1599, showing colonial religious art, nuns' everyday objects and a large nativity scene.
The Immaculate Conception convent is still home to nuns living in seclusion. The museum opens part of the convent to show the nuns' bedrooms, kitchen and embroidery room, along with religious paintings and sculptures of the Quito School, offering insight into convent life for women in the colonial period. Entry costs about 3 to 4 US dollars. The museum is often closed or has shorter hours on Sundays, and some galleries prohibit photography.
Opening hours
Approx. 09:00–18:30; shorter hours on Saturdays; closed Sundays
Nearby sights
- Museo Remigio Crespo Toral
- Museo de las Culturas Aborígenes
- Old Cathedral (El Sagrario)
- Parque Calderón
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (New Cathedral)
- Plaza & Church of San Francisco
- Plaza de las Flores
- Puente Roto & Tomebamba River (El Barranco)