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MUSEUMS OF RIOBAMBA ROSA CAPELO Memories of the past have a purpose where oblivion is present in figures that represent important events. Museums are places used to develop and those historical facts surrounded by the nature of man. In the following essay, the importance of visiting a museum to learn about art, culture, customs of different periods will be presented. The museums visited are located in the city of Riobamba, such as: the Museum of Natural Sciences of the Maldonado School, the Museum of the House of Culture and, finally, the Monasterio de la Concepción Museum; where you can notice the characteristics, epochs, art and science that marked transcendence in the exhibition of different valuable objects that keep secrets of the period in which they arose. The first museum represents the ecology, archeology and projection to the historical stages of our country, established in the four regions, where you can notice the fauna in embalmed animals, archaeological figures, ceramics corresponding to the period Tunchahuan and Puruguay. In the second museum archeology and areas cover the periods and collections of figures carved in clay, different cultures that project the customs of our ancestors, mainly evidenced by the ancient instruments, clothing and utensils of their time; The Andean cosmovision exposes productive systems of local nationalities such as shamanism. In the third museum religious questions are presented, where the faith is totally linked through the colonial figures, made in solid gold and silver, faith is projected in our villages, sacrifices made by the Franciscan sisters. The spiritual heritage forms the collection of the ornamental elements and sculptures where the nuns gave when entering

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the cloister, their architecture is a mystery when visiting the characteristic religious cells such as the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. To conclude the above-mentioned museums are the meaning of an ancient sample that represent the proclaimed mysteries of faith, science and architecture, presenting the ethnic and religious cultures of Ecuador, each one has a different period and symbolism that help the human being a projection to the past.