The Museum of the Memory of the City (Museo Memoria de la Ciudad) is located in the Viola House (Casa Viola), one of the nine buildings that make up the architectonic complex Manzana de la Rivera, in front the Government house, in Asunción, capital of Paraguay.

This Museum was an idea of the architect Carlos Colombino, and was inaugurated on 14 August 1996. a journey through its different spaces will allow to make a reading of Asuncion's history, in its different phases of development.

The Viola house is a typical colonial construction dated from 1750 to 1758, its location answers to the disposition of the streets before doctor Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia squared the city.

In the back part there is a passing gallery, as a sample of the culata yovai, type of antique Paraguayan houses.

In this context, a group of architecture students Start the campaign "Salvemos la Manzana frente al palacio" which means "let’s save the block in front of the government palace", due to the damage of the construction and in opposition to a project that pretend to demolish to build a park in its place.

The Comisión V Centenario Paraguay, presided by the architect Juan Cristaldo, includes the Project Casa Viola, among the principal projects to be done, which was presented by the writer Augusto Roa Bastos in front of the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (Spanish agency of international cooperation).

there's also a genealogical tree of enlightened men and women of the nation, paintings by many Paraguayan artists, that reflect the way of living in Asunción through the different periods, geographical maps, statistics and historical information, city maps of Asunción and the neighbor countries, from the 17th and 18th centuries, furnitures, journals, books, shields, magazines, scores, candlesticks, colonial objects, as various building elements.

Score There are many scores of great value for Paraguayan musical history saved in this Museum: Añoranza triste (Sad nostalgia), Canción guarani (Guaraní song), Gratitud (Gratitude) by Carlos Federico Reyes, musician, humorist, writer and painter, born in Asunción, on 15 October 1909.

Asuncion's Coasting Band Project and Urban Environment Development plan The coasting band Project propose to give solutions to many social, environmental, urban, and technical problems, caused by the spate of Paraguay River (río Paraguay); as to give a new image to that zone of the city.

Paintings La mestiza, Indígenas chaqueños: by Roberto Holden El mercado Guasú, Calle Palma by Ignacio Núñez Soler La Chacarita: by Alicia Bravard Personajes del Mercado de Asunción: little statues by Serafín Marsal(1861–1951).

Francisco Solano López, Government Park, Asuncion's Nautical and Harbor, Sketch of the first Railway section (Asunción-Villarrica).

Guaraní ritual elements, used by the guarani Indians as musical instruments and as water recipients.. Niche belonging to the colonial art, originally Tabapy, made in the first half of the 18th century, painted and carved in a many-colored wood, dedicated to de Rosary Virgin.

Little wooden trunk, formed by a box with a curved lid with two pieces of wood and four screws, polished and lined up with paper in its interior.