Archeological Museum
The Archeological Museum of Cochabamba, Bolivia, displays approximately 40,000 archaeological, ethnographic and paleontological pieces mostly from the Department of Cochabamba and some from Bolivia's other regions.
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Coca Museum
The Coca Museum in La Paz, Bolivia explores the sacred leaf's role in traditional societies, its use by the soft-drink and pharmaceutical industries and the growth of cocaine as an illicit drug.
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Museums in Sucre
There are many important museums in the city of Sucre, Bolivia, dealing with religious, colonial, republican and ethnografic themes. This article is a brief description of the most important ones.
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Museum of Arte Sacro
The Cathedral Museum of Sacred Art in Santa Cruz, Bolivia has impressive historical, artistic and material wealth. The silver works show the quality of the craftmanship of the artisans of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Paleantology Museum of Tarija
The museum is open since 1940. It presents 700 pieces in its exhibitions. 505 of these pieces belong to mammals whose fossils have been found in the Quaternary Cave of Tarija and 195 pieces belong to spineless fossils from the Paleozoic era. The archaeological section has 5,000 pieces which are conformed by lithic and ceramic pieces, arrows tips, mugs, darts and others.
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Gold Museum
The small museum in Challapampa displays Inca treasures, ancient pottery and some metal objects discovered underwater off the island. Many come from Johan Reinhard's underwater research near the northern end of the island, others have been donated by the people of Challapampa.
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