Best places: Museums in Montevideo, Uruguay

Museum with a range of art, from prehistoric & Egyptian collections to pieces from Greece & Rome.

Private museum with exhibits about the 1972 Andes plane crash & tributes to its victims & survivors.

Visual arts museum since 1911 featuring works by many Uruguayan artists & an outdoor sculpture park.

👍👍 Handsome. You can tour the Museum and appreciate the exhibitions. The garden is wonderful, you can enjoy its cleanliness and neatness. The attention by those who work is super friendly. It has bathrooms and benches to enjoy the garden. A beautiful corner in Montevideo that is worth visiting.

Municipal art museum in a stately 1870 villa featuring extensive Uruguayan works & formal gardens.

Cultural center housed in a unique castle dating to 1911, with guided tours & spiritual workshops.

Neoclassical former seat of Uruguayan government & museum with exhibits on presidential history.

Modest museum at Centennial Stadium featuring exhibits on the history of football in Uruguay.

Cultural space in a converted 1800s prison featuring exhibitions of contemporary art.

👍👍 La sede de la Fundación Mario Benedetti es una casona antigua, que como bien explica el guía no fue la casa donde vivió el autor. Sí no que se vendieron las propiedades que tenía el escritor y se compró esa casa. Que muy amplia, tiene objetos personales de Benedetti, y tiene un hermoso patio donde s...

👍👍 Ariel and Marisa are excellent artists and teachers. We learned about various printing techniques, drank delicious beers, ate yummy focaccia, met interesting people and printed our own beer coasters in a single night's workshop. Highly recommend a visit to their studio/museum or online store. Updat...

👍 Beautiful collection of tiles spread across three floors of this building. Some of these tiles are indigenous to Uruguay and others imported to build the collection. I particularly liked the Portuguese tiles (Room 17), some dating back to the 16th Century. The museum is free to visit. I was greeted...

Museum with extravagant costumes & masks chronicling the annual carnival, plus an open-air stage.

👍👍 Una amiga uruguaya nos invitó a visitar este museo de la memoria, que se encuentra en la avenida de Instrucciones, en la suntuosa casa del general dictador Maximo Santos. La exposición permanente defiende la memoria como antídoto para no repetir las detenciones, torturas y desapariciones de las dict...

👍👍 One of the few museums where someone who knows the subject greets you and shares purpose of exhibits. Very informative on a current and controversial political matter affecting countries world wide with a historical perspective to Uruguay. Recommended

Museum featuring pieces by Uruguayan artist, Torres García, known for his cubist paintings.

Artist & writer Pedro Figari's paintings & other works are displayed at this museum.

This modern home-turned-museum was designed by the famous architect Julio Vilamajó for his family.

Museum in opulent 19th-century mansion, with statues, art, furniture & displays on ranching life.

👍👍 Very nice museum! They have excursions and can give you some matte to try.