Museo de la Memoria, Memorial museum in Montevideo, Uruguay.

The Museo de la Memoria occupies the former country retreat of President Máximo Santos, built from 1877 in an eclectic style: mainly Neoclassical with Art Nouveau details and a raised piano nobile reached by marble steps. A boat-shaped fountain stands before the steps, and the house forms a horseshoe around a central patio with another fountain. The permanent exhibition covers seven themes, from the establishment of the dictatorship to exile and the disappeared.

The museum opened in 2007 in an 1878 mansion that underwent comprehensive restoration before becoming a public institution. It was established to preserve memory of the dictatorship period and document accounts of those who suffered and resisted.

The museum's name and purpose tie it to the 1973-1985 civic-military dictatorship, and its seven permanent themes run from the establishment of the dictatorship and popular resistance to prison life, exile, the disappeared, the recovery of democracy and the struggle for truth and justice. Its collection holds personal belongings and documents of detained-disappeared people, press clippings, posters, bulletins and oral memory recordings, plus objects showing prisoners' daily life and forms of resistance.

The museum lies about 9 km from Montevideo's old town, at Avenida de las Instrucciones 1057 near Bulevar José Batlle y Ordóñez, on the Paso de las Duranas side of the Prado. The grounds cover around 4 ha, with a long tree-lined access avenue, so allow time to walk between the house and the park.

The original estate gardens remain intact and offer a green refuge with rare plant species and quiet walking paths. These outdoor spaces give visitors a place to pause and reflect between viewing the difficult exhibition content.