National Museum of Archaeology
It represents the cultural richness of Bolivia. It has anthropology and archaeology collections.
It is located in Ingavy province 70 Km. from La Paz city. It has about 3.500 archaeology objects.
Inside the museum there are impressive stone sculptures as the Kalasasaya Temple, Ponce Monolith, the Gate of the sun, the Gate of the moon. It also has a great amount of vessels, pitchers, and sculpted clays.
Activities
Inside the museum there are exhibitions about faces, signs and cultural roots.
They show art in sculptures, vessels, paintings, and other objects.
Address: Tiwuanacu Street 93 between Bravo and Federico Zuazo
Telephone: 441894
Visiting hours
Tuesday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30 and from 15:00 to 19:00hrs
Saturday from 10:00 to 12:00 and from15:00 to 18:00 hrs.
Sunday from 10:00 to 13:00hrs.
URL: http://www.bolivianet.com/tiwanacu/vasijas.htm
National Museum of Art
It is located inside a building of XIII century; it has baroque style and belongs to Tadeo Diez de Medina. It is one of the best civil architecture of XIII century.
It exhibits many paintings, sculpture and furniture collections of contemporary art.
Activities
It has permanent exhibitions in each one of the following rooms: Furniture and Sculpture Room, Painting Room, Art of XX Century Room.
It also makes temporary exhibitions such as conferences about the different century’s art
, the most known painters and all referred to Bolivian paintings.
Address: Comercio Street, Socabaya corner, Murillo Square.
Telephone: 408542
Schedule
Tuesday – Friday, from 9:30 to 12:00 hrs/ and from15:00 to19:00hrs.
Sunday from 10:00 to13:00hrs.
Casa Núñez del Prado Museum
The Museum has sculptures of Marina Núñez del Prado. It was created to preserve, protect and manage the colonial art, the contemporary painting. It preserves handcrafts and silver objects, jewels; and a great number of paintings.
Address: Ecuador Avenue 2034 Sánchez Lima corner La Paz- Bolivia
Telephone: 591-2-324906
Schedule
Tuesday – Friday from 9:00 a12:30hrs and from 15:00 to19:00hrs.
Saturday from 10:00 to 12:30 and from15:00 to 18:00hrs.
Sunday from 9.00 to 13:00hrs.
Kusillo Museum
Kusillo Museum is a place dedicated to children
Activities
It has workshops, games, plays and dancing.
Address: Roosevelt Street 100 (in front of the ex zoo)
Telephone: 280658 - 280487
Schedule
Monday – Sunday: from 10:30 to 18:30hrs.
University Museum
It has Palaeontology, Archaeology, Mineralogy areas, inside Palaeontology area there are 700 objects for exhibition.
Archaeology Saipina Museum
It is an Archaeology and rock art museum. It was opened in 1988 and is dependent of Saipina. It has archaeology objects exhibitions, rock art of the region, ceramics and more objects collections.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday and Sunday from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to17:00hrs.
Address: Pablo Serrano Street, north zone(Saipina)
Telephone: (591-3)3365533
Archaeological Museum UMSS
San Simón university museum was created in 1959 by the anthropologist Dick Edgar. This place has more than 40.000 archaeological objects coming from Cochabamba and the rest of the departments. It is a cultural richness representation, since it shows palaeontology and anthropology objects in chronological order.
It has the following services:
- Guided visits for students and tourists
- Tutoring and thesis advising
- Conferences, seminars and cultural activities
Address: Jordán Street 1999 Nataniel Aguirre corner
Telephone: 4250012
Opening hours: form 8:00 to 18:00hrs.
National History Museum Alcide D´Orbigni
It is a national history museum has educative and cultural purposes. It is dedicated to research, conservation and spreading of natural sciences; it has as area for dinosaur fossils, crocodiles, turtles, and the rest of the mammals and birds.
Address: Potosí Avenue 1458
Opening hours: from 15:00 to 19:0hrs.
Martín Cárdenas Museum
It is a cultural place, actually renovated. It is Martín Cárdenas house; keeps innumerable cactus researches and souvenirs.
Address: Heroínas Avenue 266
Telephone: 4258030
Santa Teresa Convent Museum
Religious museum, located in the historic centre of Cochabamba, was built at the beginning of 1760, under the orders of Santiago Cambiaso, architect and Jesuit. The walls are three meters thick; it has cobbled floor and “musieras” tiles.
The museum is a good alternative for religious tourism, because is a jewel of colonial architecture in Bolivia, reflecting religious history. The National Monument is not only Bolivia’s proud, but also Latino America’s.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday
9:00-12:30 p.m.
2:00- 6:00 p.m.
Address: 14 de Septiembre Square, west sidewalk.
Telephone: 4221252
Recoleta Museum
Recoleta Museum was opened in 1972. It has a great religious objects collection, colonial paintings, sculpture, archaeology remains and all concerning colonial and republican art. In the middle of the convent there is a thousand-year- old cedar tree.
Opening hours
From Monday to Friday from 9:00 - 12:00 and 15:00 -18:00hrs.
Address: Pedro de Anzures Square north zone
National History Museum
This museum is dedicated to study and exhibit stuff animals, minerals and typical plants of Bolivia. This place is dependent of San Francisco University.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday from 9:00 - 12:00 and 15:00 - 18:00
University Museum
Specialized museum in preservation and exhibition of archaeology remains of Bolivia’s south.
Address: Bolivar Street S/N Dalence corner
Santa Clara Museum
It is located in Santa Clara convent inside the church. The exhibited art works as: Biti and Motufar paintings, anonymous sculptures, furniture, musical instruments, and different liturgical objects comes from the convent.
Casa de la Moneda
"La Casa de la moneda" is one of the most visited places, since it is a reflection of Bolivian history and culture.
The money centre was created because of the silver richness of “Cerro Rico de Potosí” and the trade expansion.
This museum exhibit coins, medals and paintings collections; famous sculptures like El Cristo Atado, Santa Barbara, colonial silver objects and archaeology of Tiwuanacu culture as “chullpas”, weapons, fossils, and furniture. It also exhibit native fabrics related with the ethnography and folklore.
Address: Ayacucho Street
Telephone: 222777
Schedule
The Schedule is the following:
Tuesday to Saturday
Morning from 9:00 to 12:00hrs
Afternoon from14:00 to 18:30
Sunday from 9:00 to 12:00
Special tour: at 11:00, and 17:30 hrs.
Prices
The prices are 20 Bs. for foreigners and 10 Bs for Bolivian people.
Palaeontology Archaeology Museum
Natural sciences museum, it exhibits palaeontology objects and archaeology remains of Tarija, mammal's fossils, mineralogy, anthropology, and archaeology collections. It has been working since 1940 and is dependent of Juan Misael Saracho University. It has mammals' fossils, invertebrates, mineralogy, anthropology and archaeology collections.
Address: General Trigo Street Nº 0402, V. Lema, Cercado corner
Telephone: (591-4) 6636680
Minero Del Socavón Museum
The Miner Museum is a repository dedicated to thematic about mineral extraction and miner traditions. It is located inside an antique mine.
It has machinery, instruments, photos, maps, minerals and all concerning miner work.
Address: Santuario del socavón
Opening hours
Monday to Sunday from 9:00 -12:00 and 15:00 - 18:00hrs
Anthropological Museum Eduardo López Rivas
It is a place dedicated to exhibit archaeology objects of pre Columbian cultures in Oruro.
Address: España Avenue S/N, next to the zoo
Schedule
Monday to Sunday from 8:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 18:00hrs
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