Museo de Historia del Arte, Art history museum in Montevideo, Uruguay

The Museo de Historia del Arte is an art museum in Montevideo that displays original works and casts spanning from prehistoric times through the 19th century across multiple exhibition halls. It offers a broad survey of how artistic styles and techniques developed across different periods and regions of human history.

The museum occupies the west wing of the Palacio Municipal in central Montevideo. Its Egyptian mummy of the priestess Esoeris has been in Uruguay for over a century. The permanent displays are arranged by culture, from prehistory and Mesopotamia to pre-Columbian and colonial art.

The ethnographic holdings include three separate collections: African art, Maya-Guatemalan textiles, and samurai weapons and armour. The museum also keeps original pre-Columbian pieces, with a section devoted to archaeology in Uruguay. The Egyptian priestess mummy known as Eso Eris has been in Uruguay for over a century.

The museum occupies the west wing of the Intendencia de Montevideo building at 18 de Julio 1326, at the corner of Ejido street. It opens Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00 to 17:30, with summer hours of 13:30 to 19:00 from December to March. It is closed Mondays and public holidays, and admission is free.

The Egyptian mummy of the priestess "Eso Eris" has been kept in Uruguay for more than a century, according to the museum's own account. It is an original piece shown among the plaster casts of Egyptian, Greek and Roman art that make up much of the collection.