Best places: Museums in Uruguay

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

👍👍 What a spectacular view, super accessible, very well cared for and the staff presents excellent care. In addition to the fort, you can visit the Campo Santo, the Indigenous Museum and there are spectacular corners in the mountains with benches where you can drink mate or eat something. Whenever I g...

👍👍 Very nice activity to go with children. Sunday hours from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. To enter if you come from the airport's roundabout center and continue a little further. It has a parking lot, bathrooms, wooden games and hammocks, you can take the child in an airplane-type car to do the tour, there...

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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.

Natural history museum with extensive marine fauna specimens, maritime artifacts & a pirate exhibit.

👍👍 Se nota que ama lo que hace, un trabajo muy meticuloso y amplio. Lo súper recomiendo, la infinidad de máquinas e ideas que se da para hacer todos los pequeños artefactos, autos, motores, etc, y la precisión de los mismos es increíble. Me hubiera gustado llevarme algún recuerdo, puede que los puedan...

👍👍 Located in the area of ​​Don Pedro, on Route 21, in the Dept. from Cologne, located, the C'ars Museum. After entering, through a portal where two cachila, are on two separate pillars, you advance along an internal road to a parking area, where under the open sky you can already see several old vehi...

👍👍 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.

👍👍 One of the 2 Origami museums in the world (the other is in Zaragoza). Very nice place, variety of pieces by different artists from all over the world. It is not very big, it can be covered in a short time. Very affordable ticket price as well

👍👍 The world's second largest keychain collection and the world's largest pencil collection, both in the same place. You can visit it for free and and they have a nice gift shop there

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...