AT A GLANCE
Why go?
Tucked in a green pocket of Barrio Perichon, the Guaraní Museum — officially called the Centro de Imaginería Guaraní — is a one-of-a-kind cultural space in Corrientes where ceramic murals, sculptures, and the owner's passionate storytelling bring Guaraní mythology, history, and cosmogony vividly to life.↗↗
Created by Mauro Santamaría — a Correntino artist, writer, and playwright who spent two decades in Buenos Aires before returning home — the museum distills the region's indigenous roots into a compact but deeply immersive visit that families, school groups, and curious travelers consistently rate five stars.↗
What You'll See
The heart of the museum is a series of ceramic images rendered in a deliberately naive style — colorful, expressive, and instantly readable even for young children. These murals trace the arc of Guaraní civilization: cosmogony and creation myths, daily social life, the arrival of the Spanish, Jesuit evangelization, and the mestization that shaped modern Corrientes. Alongside the ceramics, Santamaría's sculptures bring mythological characters — the Pombero, the Curupí, the Yasy Yateré, the lobizón — into three dimensions, making the forest spirits and shape-shifters of oral tradition feel startlingly present.
