Museo del Santo Hermano Pedro, Antigua: the Religious Art Museum at San Francisco Church — Q5 Entry, Hours, What Is Inside

Yes: the Museo de Arte Religioso del Santo Hermano Pedro is inside the San Francisco church complex in Antigua, and the Ministry of Culture’s undated SIC directory lists it open every day from 9:00 to 16:00 at Q5 for adults and Q2 for children; Lonely Planet’s undated listing confirms the museum and gives the same phone number, 7882-4438.

In short: Go to the Iglesia de San Francisco; SIC gives the museum’s address as Calle del Hermano Pedro, and Lonely Planet places the church at the corner of 7a Calle Oriente and Calle de los Pasos. Three rooms hold Franciscan religious art and the saint’s own belongings, including the hat in which he carried an image of the Christ Child. The Q5 fee and the hours come only from the undated SIC listing: call 7882-4438 before going.

Fee, hours and contact

The Order of Friars Minor’s page on Hermano Pedro is a biography and publishes no visitor hours or fee (checked https://ofm.org/es/santo-hermano-pedro.html, 9 November 2026), and Lonely Planet gives neither. The SIC listing is therefore the only published figure for the fee and the hours, and it is undated (checked 9 November 2026): ring the number above if a specific day matters.

The three rooms

The SIC directory describes three spaces:

• Sala Colonial, the colonial room.
• Pasillo de los Milagros, the corridor of miracles.
• Sala del Hermano Pedro, the room given over to the saint.

Together they show religious objects that have belonged to the Franciscan community since the colonial period: paintings, statues, priestly vestments, old documents, a 17th-century altarpiece, some pieces of Maya ceramics and other items.

Lonely Planet’s undated write-up gives the visitor’s-eye view. It says “A museum is haphazardly strewn with relics from the church” and with the saint’s well-preserved personal belongings, and that the corridor is covered in thank-you notes for miracles attributed to him.

Hermano Pedro’s own belongings

The museum opened in 1982, according to the directory, so that visitors could see objects such as the saint’s belongings, kept by the Franciscans. Among them are his clothing, cape and walking staff, and the hat inside which he carried the image of the Christ Child (Niño Dios).

The museum also shows the chests in which his remains lay from 1817 until 1990, when they were moved to the present tomb.

The tomb next door

The SIC listing ties the museum to the tomb, and the secondary sources describe the tomb itself. Wikipedia (Spanish, secondary source) says Pedro de San José Betancur has been buried in San Francisco since his death on 25 April 1667, in several places within the church: in the chapel of the Third Order from 1817 to 1990, and in the Vera Cruz chapel, remodelled for the purpose, since 1990. It adds that the church was raised to an archdiocesan sanctuary on 30 July 2003 because his remains are there, and that the tomb is a stop on a commemorative tourist route through Antigua following his life and work.

Lonely Planet’s listing says the tomb has stood in an elaborate pavilion since his canonisation in 2002, that the sick still come to pray beside it, and that devotees may enter through a garden north of the church. It also points to the ruins of the old monastery on the south side, with frescoes still visible in the rubble.

The saint’s yearly feast, and the recent exceptional opening of the tomb, are covered on the Santo Hermano Pedro feast page.

What to ask when you call 7882-4438

The number appears in both the SIC directory and Lonely Planet’s listing. Useful questions, given that the published details are undated:

• Is the museum open today, and until what time? SIC says every day, 9:00 to 16:00.
• What is the fee now? SIC lists Q5 for adults and Q2 for children.
• Are all three rooms open? The directory describes the Sala Colonial, the Pasillo de los Milagros and the Sala del Hermano Pedro.
• How do I reach the tomb? Lonely Planet says devotees enter through a garden north of the church; ask whether that route is open on the day you plan to go.

Not the hospital

The saint’s name is also carried by Hospital Privado Hermano Pedro, a private medical centre listed on the Antigua healthcare page. It is a separate institution, and its hours and contacts are not the museum’s.

How it fits a day in Antigua

San Francisco is a church, so the museum suits a visit paired with the church itself and the monastery ruins Lonely Planet mentions on its south side. Neither SIC nor Lonely Planet gives a fee for those ruins; the Antigua ruins entry fees page lists the sites that do charge foreign visitors.

A free walking tour of Antigua is one way to see the centre first and come back to San Francisco for the museum. The rest of the town’s options are on things to do in Antigua.

Sources

• Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, SIC directory listing, Museo de Arte Religioso del Santo Hermano Pedro (undated): https://www.sicultura.gob.gt/directory-directorio_c/listing/museo-del-santo-hermano-pedro/ — read 9 November 2026.
• Lonely Planet, Iglesia de San Francisco, secondary source (undated): https://www.lonelyplanet.com/points-of-interest/iglesia-de-san-francisco/432100 — read 9 November 2026.
• Wikipedia (Spanish), Iglesia de San Francisco (La Antigua Guatemala), secondary source (revision of 28 August 2026): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Francisco_(La_Antigua_Guatemala) — read 9 November 2026.
• Order of Friars Minor, Santo Hermano Pedro (biography; no visitor details): https://ofm.org/es/santo-hermano-pedro.html — read 9 November 2026.