Museum combining indoor exhibits about local culture & ethnography & sprawling, open-air Inca ruins.The origin of the Pumapungo Museum dates back to 1978, with the creation of the Center for Research and Culture of the Central Bank of Ecuador in the city of Cuenca, and the acquisition and reception of the first cultural collections: On July 30, 1992, the new Pumapungo Museum, the largest and most complete museum in the southern region of the country, was inaugurated in the new and imposing buildings of the "brutalist" architectural style of the Central Bank of Ecuador.