Panamá District

Museums in Distrito de Panamá

Museums & Art

Panama City’s museums bridge the gap between geological formation and modern engineering. This collection features the Frank Gehry-designed Biomuseo, detailing the isthmus’s natural history, and the Panama Canal Museum, housed in the former French headquarters. Explore pre-Columbian artifacts at the Anthropological Museum, contemporary Latin American art at MAC Panama, and the ruins of the original 1519 settlement at Panamá Viejo. For engineering insights, the Miraflores Visitors Center provides direct views of the canal’s lock operations.

Museums & Art — Map

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Museum of Biodiversity

Biomuseo is a museum focused on the natural history of Panama, whose isthmus was formed very recently in geologic time, with major impact…

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Miraflores Visitors Center

Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal, and the name of the small lake that separates these…

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Marine Exhibitions Center

The Punta Culebra Nature Center is a visitor center located in Panama City, on one of the islands connected by the Amador Causeway.

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Panama Canal Museum

Housed in the former French Canal Company headquarters in Casco Viejo, this institution chronicles the waterway's planning, construction, and 1999 transfer to Panamanian control through historical documents and artifacts.

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Panama History Museum

This small museum is located in Casco Viejo, the old town. It retells the history of Panama and was established in 1977.

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Museum of Contemporary Art

The only museum of its kind in Panama. Its aim is to collect and preserve Latin American art.

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Mi Pueblito

This village complex represents three cultures - Panamanian, Antillan and Indian. You can see how these three nations lived.

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Museo De Panamá Viejo

Located within the ruins of the original 1519 settlement, this museum displays archaeological finds and exhibits detailing the city's colonial history and its destruction by privateer Henry Morgan in 1671.

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Reina Torres de Araúz Anthropological Museum

This museum is named after famous Panamanian anthropologist. There are various pre-Columbian artefacts displayed.

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Museo de la Plaza Mayor

Situated at the Panamá Viejo archaeological site, this facility features a large-scale model of the 16th-century city alongside artifacts recovered during excavations of the surrounding colonial ruins.

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