Museum de Herrera, Herrera Province, Panama
3.5 (14 reviews) Spent Ranking #4 in Chitre Speciality Museums
Cute Little Museum in Chitré
It is a museum situated in an old colonial building. It is a great little museum showing the history of the area. It has old pottery and jewellry from the area and also an original ancient burial ground, showing you what they used to get buried in and they used to dress them up properly before getting buried! Also on the second floor you can see the dragon masks which get made in the area, I have to say some of them are scary but definitely worth going to see because many of the locals wear these during festivals throughout the year, but some of them definitely send a shiver down your body. It is only a one dollar entry so I would recommend going just to get to know the history, however I would say that being able to read Spanish would be helpful because all the descriptions are in Spanish, so you may get lost in the ages if you can't.
Address
Calle Manuel Maria Correa and Julio Arjona Avenue, Chitre 0601 Panama
Mobile
Website
http://www.museoscentroamericanos.net/museos
Current local date and time now
Saturday, May 11, 2024, 16:29
User Ratings
3.5 based on (14 reviews)
Reviews
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4mike w 5:00 PM Jan 17, 2014
Quaint Museum
Nice, quaint museum that illustrates the Azuero Peninsula well with paintings,,maps and artifacts such as pottery,Indian arrowheads and other archaeological finds.... Makes a traveller understand and appreicate ther region just alittle bit better. its only 1 dollar and a good way to spend an hour while in Chitre. A free guide is available too
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4PanamaVagabond 5:00 PM Mar 14, 2015
Small but cute museum
Grate history of Chitré and the local area. It is a shame that this local museum does not receive funding to help maintain the building and manage the museum.
