Reina Torres de Araúz Anthropological Museum, Anthropological museum in Santa Ana district, Panama City, Panama

The Reina Torres de Araúz Anthropological Museum occupies the former Panama Railroad station facing Plaza 5 de Mayo, in the Santa Ana district of Panama City. The building, returned to Panama by the Canal Zone on 29 October 1960, was renovated with over one million balboas and opened as a museum on 15 December 1976. Its halls hold pre-Columbian ceramics, stone objects and ethnographic materials.

The building dates from 1912 and 1913, when it served as a railway station, and was later recognized as a national historic monument. The museum opened in 1976 and was named in 1983 after its founder, Dr. Reina Torres de Araúz.

The museum's name honors Reina Torres de Araúz, the founder of Panamanian anthropology, and was changed from Museo del Hombre Panameño by Law No. 7 of 1983. A diorama lent by Harvard University shows a human skeleton found in a tomb between 1930 and 1933, wearing a gold crown and surrounded by gold breastplates, arm rings, nose rings and chains, alongside stone vessels and weapons.

The museum is in the Santa Ana district, in the former Panama Railway station facing Plaza 5 de Mayo. The building has been closed for a restoration contracted for 14.7 million balboas, so check before visiting. The collections, including the goldwork, are stored elsewhere.

The museum's collection is considered one of the most complete pre-Columbian collections in Central America. Some of the objects on display come from archaeological sites that have not yet been fully studied, which gives them a particular research value beyond their role as exhibits.