Casa Museo Alberto Arvelo Torrealba

The museum is located in the historic center of the city of Barinas, very close to Plaza Bolívar (formerly known as Plaza Mayor). The origins of La Pulideña are associated with the presence of the field master and future mayor Manuel Antonio Pulido y León, originally from Spain.

At the end of the 19th century, the wooden balustrade was replaced by an iron trellis.

On June 30, 1976 the National Protective and Conservative Board of the Historical and Artistic Heritage of the Nation declared it a National Historic Monument.

Two years later, on May 23, 1979, it was sold to the Barinas state government for a value of 500,000 bolivars.