The Museum of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art (Spanish: Museo de Arte Precolombino e Indígena) is an ethnographic museum located in Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay, dedicated to the indigenous cultures of different parts of Latin America.
[3] In 2013, the museum was incorporated into the Google Arts & Culture platform.
The museum mainly focuses on the culture of the indigenous people in Uruguay, but there are also exhibits on other parts of Latin America, among them, there is the Mesoamerica region, which includes Mexico and Guatemala, the intermediate region which includes Colombia and Ecuador, this section is about the Cuasmal, Capulí and Tuncahuán cultures, there are also exhibits on the Andean Region that includes Peru and western Bolivia, there is also the South Andean region, which includes Chile and a small part of Argentina.
[5] Among the museum's exhibits are textiles, traditional musical instruments, ceramics and art.
[6] The museum also has exhibits on the indigenous people of the Amazon and the Plata River basin.