Museum of Liberty — Attraction in Ancón

Modern and recently built Museum depicting the history of the Human Rights and Human Freedom Development at the Global and Panama level. Laid out in three floors in exhuberant tropical surroundings, the displays are professionally done and with ample background information.

Start the tour on the 3rd Floor where you will see how the concept of the Human Rights Charter came to be starting in the medieval period and ending with the Declaration of the Human Rights in the 1940s, after the horros of WWII. On the exhibition you will see a video show where current violations of human rights since 2010 are shown, with poignant music and photos that will touch your soul.

Continue to the 2nd Floor where you will encounter each of the Rights explained in detail and how they are currently being violated at the Global Level, with an attached mural that shows the postive contributions made by individuals and organizations to focus on them and improve their implementation.

Finally on the 1st Floor you will see a side exhibit of the Panama Invasion of 1989 that allowed for the current cycle of Democracy and Freedom that we have on Panama.

The Staff is very helpful and engage you proactively in explaining you the exhibits with their ample knowledge. In the end they even let you pick mangoes of the tree in the backyard, if you...

Fantastic museum and we emailed ahead for a tour in English and... Wow! Etna was so patient with our questions and the extra time we wanted to take with the experience our 90 minute tour lasted over three hours! We've never received such gracious enthusiasm from a tour guide for a museum - and Museo de Libertad deserves it. This is a can't miss stop just outside Casco Viejo. You'll need to drive or Uber as there aren't sidewalks safe from traffic, but it's absolutely worth it. The subject matter is fairly dark so, despite the museum's efforts to provide some displays to appeal to children, this really is adults-only material. Great way to explore Panamas history from another angle and learn about it's place in the world's human...

The museum has lots of i-pads set up to make the exhibits more interactive, but currently none of them are engaged for some reason. This means the museum is primarily reading info on the walls, basically all in Spanish.

That said, the goal of informing citizens of their rights and the history of how they got those is a worthwhile idea. The exhibits flag interesting issues like online privacy and persecution of indigenous people. I just felt like it needed a tour guide to sum up and highlight the takeaway at each section. The lack of interactivity here is what's holding this back from...