Museo Remigio Crespo Toral
An early 20th-century French-style mansion on a riverside cliff, telling the city's history, with archaeological finds and colonial art; free to visit.
Museo Remigio Crespo Toral is named after Cuenca poet Remigio Crespo Toral and is one of Ecuador's oldest municipal museums. After restoration, the mansion displays collections from pre-Inca, colonial and republican periods, and the café in the back garden overlooks the Tomebamba River valley known as the Barranco. Free. Closed on Mondays. Located on Calle Larga, it can be linked with a stroll along the riverbank.
Opening hours
Approx. 08:00–17:30; closed Mondays
Nearby sights
- Museo de las Culturas Aborígenes
- Museo de las Conceptas
- Puente Roto & Tomebamba River (El Barranco)
- Plaza & Church of San Francisco
- Old Cathedral (El Sagrario)
- Calle Larga
- Mercado 10 de Agosto
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (New Cathedral)