Museum of Ethnography

THINGS TO DO, ECUADOR Updated : Sep 20, 2016, 01.44 PM IST

Ajita Chowhan

Over the past decade Ajita has extensively explored more than 30 countries in Latin America, South East Asia, North America, Western Europe, Scandinavia and Africa. She is an ardent believer of the slow, long-term travel enabling most authentic understanding of culture, landscape, people and society. She continues to do so by currently living and working in the Northern Congo Basin in Sub-Saharan Africa. She curates her elsewhereness as A Small Town Girl at http://www.asmalltowngirl.in.

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At Pichincha, Ecuador, near Mitad Del Mundo is the Ethnography Museum. The outdoor mirador or balcony works as a view point to get a bird’s eye view of the middle of the earth. The museum itself displays the weaves, pictures and timelines of the indigenous population of Ecuador. There is also a planetarium inside which projects the stars and other heavenly bodies as seen from the point, i.e., from the middle of the world. There are two, very short presentations on Earth and solar system; and the sky from the middle of Earth.
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