Inside the beautifully restored, 16th-century convent of the Conceptas nuns, Riobamba’s top museum houses one of the country’s finest collections of 17th- and 18th-century religious art. The museum’s signature piece is a priceless, meter-tall monstrance inlaid with more than 1500 precious stones.
Made of solid gold with a solid silver base, it weighs over 360kg (making it incredibly difficult to steal).
