Museo Parroquial San Rafael

The San Rafael Museum is behind Itauguá's church, on Francisco Caballero Álvarez street, in one of the most significant colonial buildings of the town, with thick walls, brick floors and doors with metal fittings. Its 1999 restoration kept the original karanda'y beams and tiles. It is run by the parish and admission is free according to the source consulted. It unfolds in eight rooms: sculptures and altarpieces from Franciscan and Jesuit workshops of the 17th and 18th centuries; wooden saints of different sizes, some with crystal eyes; domestic furniture, saddles and Chaco War objects; books from poet Félix Fernández's library; the processional carriage of the Virgen del Rosario; a ñandutí section; and a one-metre cedar sculpture of Saint Michael the Archangel with original gold leaf.

It was founded in 1964 by the parish priest Mariano Celso Pedrozo (who died in August 2004), who had been collecting sacred images and objects since 1962 to protect them from theft and deterioration.