Museo Memoria de La Ciudad

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 in the 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 objects that it treasures had been collected in the country, as well as in the cities of New York, Madrid, París, Montevideo and Buenos Aires.

CASA VIOLA

The house Viola is a Typical colonial construction dated from 1750–1758, its location answers to the disposition of the streets before doctor Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia squared the city. The house has a tile roof. There is a gallery in front; behind the gallery there is a blacksmith’s shop built over wooden beams and columns. Previously, the house had three big rooms, now there’s only one, located in front of the government. In the back part there is a passing gallery, as a sample of the culata yovai, type of antique Paraguayan houses. The roof is made of palm and tacuara; the tiles are set with a mud kind of cement.